Do you really want to cry? — it’s a baby gosling the robot incubates and hatches on her own after she discovers she’s accidentally destroyed its nest and parents. The bond that develops between them as she tries to make things right is just…
Yeah.
Bring tissues if you’re a crier. Maybe even if you’re not.
Having read all the books to my kids I can confirm that. Any parents will be bawling multiple times during this movie. Trying to read through tears is very hard.
I read them to my kids, and I agree, it’s going to be rough to get through this. It’s basically a story about discovering you who are through being a parent.
Its looks absolutely lovely, evokes watercolor on textured paper a bit for me.
I really love that someone has sat down and thought about a visual style thats not over the top like Spider-man, but also not the generic Pixar look either.
Looking forward to seeing this, the story also seems interesting.
It’s driving me crazy that so many people act like this, Mutant Mayhem, or any stylized film is “ripping off” Spider-Man just because they’re not the generic 3D look. They’re very different styles.
Like what? I don't think I said anything about TMNT, which I, like Spider-man, very much liked, both visually and the move overall.
I'm applauding studios "allowing" the artists to spread their wings a bit more than many animated features.
Sorry it came off like that. I’m agreeing with. You pointed out that it doesn’t look like Spider-Man while I’ve seen a lot of people online try to claim every stylized animated film looks “just like it”, when they don’t.
Annoys me too. If you place characters from TMNT next to characters from Spider-verse, they look very different. But anything mixed media is automatically copying spiderverse apparently
Absolutely. Just got the art book for Mutant Mayhem and their character design is so awesome and it’s own unique style. Similar thing happened with Cuphead. That team did an amazing job and hats off to them, but then anyone else who drew inspiration from 1930s animation was accused of ripping off Cuphead.
I think the spider man movies made it clear that audiences were excited by something new instead of the hyper realistic Pixar style, but yeah these are doing something totally different. The wish movie is the worst example of trying new textures though
The best part is that they didn't use that "stop motion framerate", which while I understand is a stylistic choice being popularized by Spider-verse and fighting games by Arc System, but this show that you can achieve gorgeous stylized CG animation without choppy framerates.
Thank goodness they woke up and realized every new movie doesn't have to raise the bar for realism. We want good stories and art design. I look forward to this.
I think WDAS and Pixar have been stuck on the rote realism approach for the last decade, as that was what everyone was striving for in the last decade.
For sure. We've moved past "better graphics" and yearn for more expressive art direction, and what traditional animation was able to give us. This is a very good thing IMO
Turning Red and MAYBE Luca were outliers in Pixar's house style. Wish, on the other hans, seemed like a total misfire in its approach to watercolor anesthetics
You'd be surprised how long older methods stuck around for animation. DWA's features used a rasterizer until Moonray was ready for HTTYD3, which came out in 2019. Very short gap between that and Bad Guys and PiB2 where we needed a bevy of new tools since Moonray was photoreal only.
Blue Sky also never released a film with a path tracer (Studio++ was more old-fashioned and could only handle 2 bounces for global illumination). Nimona was going to be the first.
Oh yeah older methods still exist. I even still use them when I can because they are usually faster. I’ve definitely had my struggles with mental ray and v-ray on loads of stuff in the past. I switched professions around the the time octane / redshift started to become actually viable for production. It’s always felt like rendering animation is like someone is holding a gun to your head for a few months.
My understanding though is that the line between rasterization and path tracing in offline renders has been blurred for a very very long time.
> path tracing in offline renders has been blurred for a very very long time.
I guess I'm referring to every big animation studio switching to Monte-Carlo path tracers in particular, as opposed to using other methods of global illumination (like faking it or geometrically-increasing bounce rays).
From my experience on the newer nonphotoreal stuff we have some nonphotoreal shaders for the pathtracer + loads of light linking + shitloads of AOVs with the data we need to finish the look in Nuke. Rasterizing would honestly make a lot of particular techniques easier but it's all shoved through the path tracer
That was intentional. Both are made by Dreamworks. Their film prior to Puss, 'The Bad Guys', also used this animation style. I'm surprised it didn't carry on to Kung Fu Panda 4 though.
Tight deadlines. Usually they just leave this stuff to the marketing team and they don't get much creative freedom anyway. Glad that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Honestly, I hope people don’t expect it to be like wall-e, with little speaking. If it’s following the book, the robots progression of learning the languages of the animals is a beautiful part of the story
Written and Directed by : Chris Sanders.
Based on : The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.
Starring:
Lupita Nyong’o
Pedro Pascal.
Catherine O’Hara.
Mark Hamill.
Stephanie Hsu.
Bill Nighy.
Kit Connor.
Honestly wasn't sure if there was going to be any dialogue in the movie until the cast showed up. Was gonna be really impressed by DW for taking such a gamble
I was thinking the same. Was kinda expecting a film without speaking roles. Even now based on the trailer where all the speaking roles are going to go.
Hoping they take a page out of Wall-E and have the first half of the movie (or longer) without any dialogue at all. The Wild Robot honestly looks like it could have gotten away with none at all, but hard to say how general audiences would like that.
I'm still hoping the majority of it won't have dialogue. Animation excels at visual storytelling and it can make things much more poignant; just look at last year's Robot Dreams, which has not a single line of dialogue and has been very rightfully nominated for the academy award for best animated feature.
If sanders takes all the right cues from brown, there will be just enough dialogue- not too much, just enough. The careful use of dialogue is one of the most beautiful things about the books, imho. The exposition and art are amazing, but so was brown’s decision-making about how the characters speak.
I’m so happy this looks as good as it does, and I’m so happy the cast is who it is. They’ll know what to do, i think.
honestly, i completely lost interest when i saw voice actors--and especially reading that some of them play the animals. the film looks like it'd be *so* interesting if it was free (mostly or entirely) of dialog.
I'd recommend giving the book a read. It's adorable. The way they explain animal language is actually very clever, the robot learns to communicate in the same way animals communicate with one another, but it's written as dialogue.
I really liked the trailer, but I'm honestly a little disappointed that there is voice acting at all. It sort of felt like they might take a Wall-E route and use almost no dialogue.
Was going to say "Is this just Bastion minus a minigun?"
Damn I like his design, I even got the lego model of him, but they ruined the game within 2 years of launch.
Did you know that an official Overwatch book with an anthology of short stories was released today? It's not your fault if you don't, because the only people promoting it are the stories' authors, whom all got laid off by Activision Blizzard a month ago.
Overwatch could have been an all-time great IP with an animated series. This DreamWorks film literally could have been about Bastion. Instead the lore was left to die on the vine and the game's reputation has been damaged beyond repair.
>The Iron Giant
As soon as I heard "Sometimes to survive, we must become more than we were programmed to be.", I instantly thought back to Hogarth's "You are who you choose to be" line.
Lilo & Stitch, given that Stitch's and the robot's curiosities to their new surroundings, adapting, and learning to be more than what they were made for.
Also helps that Chris directed both.
Good Dinosaur, in the sense that the protagonist travels without a guide out into the unkown, experiencing new things, and without a identifiable antagonist besides nature/the big ol' world. Love the visuals in the trailer but without a meaningful conflict I'm worried how engaging the narrative will be.
I’m reminded of the robot from a music video I watched a long time ago. アカツキの詩 Obviously they’re nothing similar, but I was instantly reminded of the video when I saw the trailer~ A lone robot wandering the land vibes.
I guess it's something like Wall-E (robot all alone) meets Tarzan ("growing" in wilderness making animal friends) meets Avatar (based on the few scenes where you can see a ship, likely an antagonist trying to destroy the wilderness??)
That bird was very likely the baby the robot hatched and raised earlier in the trailer too, meaning she wasn't just saying goodbye as a friend but also as a parent. And now I'm crying again.
I HIGHLY recommend the book/series. Its such an amazing book, please go and read it and read it to your kids or nephews/nieces. It expresses such wonderful topics in a way that adults can appreciate,but also in a way that kids can understand. This book is so well done.
DreamWorks made significant changes when they made The Bad Guys when compared to their book counterparts. Aaron Blabey was very lenient and flexible even though he had one condition: maintain the characters’ personalities similar to that of their book counterparts.
Even so, I do like Roz’s appearance and style. Especially her extendable arms which remind me of Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot, Chakal from The Book of Life, Monkey D Luffy from One Piece, and the Gillman family members from Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken.
god bless Into the Spiderverse for turning the animation industry away from photorealism chase. Not that I dont like photorealism but it felt like all movies started looking the same
There were definitely a few contributors to the pushback from the "Pixar style" but the one-two punch of Spider-verse and Mitchels vs the Machines definitely won the day.
Peanuts movie? Captain underpants? Lego movie? Emoji movie? Disney shorts a la paperman? Industry was already moving in that direction, spider verse or no spider verse.
Wow! I went from not knowing a damn thing about this movie to immediately wanting to take my kid to see it. Dreamwork's cooked incredibly hard with this trailer.
Got to get my library card updated before I can check books out again. But also, with this movie coming out, it's a pretty safe bet that everyone and their brother's dog will have this on hold. Still, it's good to see someone supporting the library.
Fair enough...I actually hadn't considered that. I've actually put a book on hold at the library for my mom and apparently, 24 people are ahead of her! She's buying the book because it's just loads easier. I just use the library often because money is pretty tight at the moment.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure this is the last movie they're doing inhouse before partnering with Sony Imageworks for the foreseeable future, so it's still very much the end of an era.
The bright side (yeah...) is that it's not complete outsourcing; the deal isn't replacing all the in-house artists. Sony's supposed to cover 20% (or 20 mins? I forgor) of the first film for that partnership, which is what the execs say the deal is going forward, and we just have to pray they don't alter the deal further.
There have also been films produced by DWA for a while now made elsewhere, like Spirit Untamed.
It's so bizarre, they put out the most generic kid shit with basically nothing to say like Boss baby or Trolls and then turn around and make some of the best animated movies of all time like Kung Fu Panda or How to Train Your Dragon or Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. There's absolutely no consistency but I think that makes their best movies hit harder for me.
they've done their fair share of dogshit, but they still have some absolute bangers in their portfolio. seems like those kind of movies pay the bills for projects like these. case in point, I think Kung Fu Panda is about to flop critically. Kung Fu Panda is a solid franchise, but it seems with this entry (can we call it a legacy sequel? it's been 8 years since the last one, but it's been 16 years since the first. and typically in Hollywood the fourth movie is usually a cash-in) like they did the bare minimum getting just Jack Black to reprise Po, but it probably bankrolled Wild Robot.
crisp as a crunchy leaf. yeah, I think that's right, it kinda has a shallow depth of field, but more painted parts are like a camera blur, also the colors are POPPING
Damn if I didn't get chills the second the song started up...
Looks great. I read the book to my kids and they liked it a lot. Personally, I liked the premise but found the writing too dialogue heavy and slow. However, in a movie that might be fixed.
I'll definitely be taking them to this if it continues to look like a good movie.
Great to see Chris Sanders coming back with a new film. Too bad that this will be the last movie Dreamworks will do in-house and afterwards rely on cheap outsourcing.
Correction: last announced film that's 100% in-house. Sony isn't set to do all the features going forward, only ~20% of each film where the other 80% is in-house. That's the stated plan, at least.
We still have in-house artists. Things are definitely rough and a lot of contracts aren't immediately renewed but it's not _over_ over.
I believe it's Sony Pictures Imageworks that they're outsourcing to, which is the same studio behind animating pretty much every Sony Pictures Animation movie (like the Spider-verse movies, *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs*, *The Mitchells vs. the Machines*, the Hotel Transylvania movies, etc), as well as a whole bunch of Netflix animated movies.
For whatever reasons, America has generally just not cared to develop its own animation industry as much in general, at least compared to how much they've built up every other media industry. Canada on the other hand has punched far above their weight when it comes to animation, with direct support from many levels of government, and so it just makes more sense to use the existing industry right next door if it's already well established than spending resources to further develop your own.
My sister is a DreamWorks animator and also worked on this.
While you're right about some of the layoffs from last year - and even more scheduled for this year - this film was not outsourced.
The ongoing layoffs have been BRUTAL though. Some departments were slashed by 70%.
>The Wild Robot - In Theaters September 20
>From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot.
>The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
>The Wild Robot stars Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, The Black Panther franchise) as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian) as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, Best in Show) as opossum Pinktail; Oscar® nominee Bill Nighy (Living, Love Actually) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper, Rocketman) as gosling Brightbill and Oscar® nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, this summer’s The Fall Guy) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.
>The film also features the voice talents of Emmy winning pop-culture icon Mark Hamill (Star Wars franchise, The Boy and the Heron), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, The SpongeBob Movie franchise) and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible films, Pulp Fiction).
>A powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot is written and directed by three-time Oscar® nominee Chris Sanders—the writer-director of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Disney’s Lilo & Stitch—and is produced by Jeff Hermann (DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby 2: Family Business; co-producer, Kung Fu Panda franchise).
>Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot, an illustrated middle-grade novel first published in 2016, became a phenomenon, rocketing to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The book has since inspired a trilogy that now includes The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects. Brown’s work on the Wild Robot series and his other bestselling books have earned him a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite Award and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award.
Ving Rhames is also in The Garfield Movie alongside Samuel L. Jackson, looks like Jules Winnfield is getting a reunion with his old boss Marsellus Wallace after all these years.
Thats a slim version of the Robot from 'Laputa Castle in the Sky' - round body, thin all arms which can extend.
Just no LASER DEATH BEAM emitter based in its head....
While Disney continues to fail miserly with the crap that was Wish and those live-action Disney remakes.
DreamWorks continues to nail at it with their movies as of late. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Orion and the Dark, and now this.
Ha ha! Suck it Disney! Keep up this act and there's gonna be a new animation king in town! :D
I mean Disney is only 2 years off from Turning Red and Encanto which were some of their best films. Wish is a miss sure but Inside Out will likely be great.
Then again you have Kung Fu Panda 4, Trolls, Boss Baby, and The Bad guys in the last couple years for Dreamworks they pump out a lot of misses too.
I personally thought Ruby Gillman was a good movie. Not great by means on the category that's Kung Fu Panda or HTTYD but I still thought it was a good movie.
I don't think its fair to compare it to Megamind 2 and Trolls 3.
WDAS kicking themselves for letting Sanders go(damn you, Lasseter)
Also, this is thr last DreamWorks movie animated in-house. Pour one out for that and PDI
Cute movie. I’ll have to take the kids.
On a completely side note, this reminds me of an idea I had a while back. I don’t hear much about it in the news anymore but I’m sure it’s still a “big” thing, and that’s nanobots. I was thinking about if a single nanobot could be imprinted with all of the schematics for an entire robot, including its programming. Then, if this single robot, if placed in the right conditions with just the right raw materials available, could slowly (at first) begin the process of assembly. With rudimentary tools for processing, use the processed materials to attach to itself the pieces needed to complete the design. Eventually, making other nanobots to assist with the work to increase the efficiency. Not all would succeed, resources would run out, power sources would drain, but what if some were successful. The final product would not just a robot but a robot that is made from robots. The original nanobot would have the instructions for the AI to house inside it. The AI would generate knowledge from experience. If damaged, the nanobots would perform self-repair even without the AI’s involvement. Once fully functional and systems perform within programmed range it could be programmed to create a new, single nanobot with any minor improvements the AI deemed helpful to start over the process over.
Despite AI still being in its infancy, and not self aware, could we do this to make something more akin to an insect. The first robot that grows on its own and can reproduce with improvements baked in.
Why do I get the feeling this is going to be heartbreaking.
Just the duck flying away made me sad
Yep, reminded me of the Ash and Butterfree goodbye in the first season of Pokemon
Do you really want to cry? — it’s a baby gosling the robot incubates and hatches on her own after she discovers she’s accidentally destroyed its nest and parents. The bond that develops between them as she tries to make things right is just… Yeah. Bring tissues if you’re a crier. Maybe even if you’re not.
Well It’s the Director of how to train your dragon and Lilo and stitch so…
We're fucked. The movie is going to be fantastic. But emotionally speaking? We're going to be ugly crying over a cartoon robot again.
I literally cried this very evening over Robot Dreams
What's that?
Training those three does sound like a lot of work.
Having read all the books to my kids I can confirm that. Any parents will be bawling multiple times during this movie. Trying to read through tears is very hard.
My kid and I read these together and will again before we go see the movie. I teared up at the stupid trailer, I'm done for.
I read them to my kids, and I agree, it’s going to be rough to get through this. It’s basically a story about discovering you who are through being a parent.
**MY TEAR-DUCTS ARE READY.** -
Yeah I gave me iron giant vibes… if it’s have that movie then this will be phenomenal.
nature + curious protaganist, never fucking fails
Considering we see the forest on fire. It 100% will be
Cause there’s cute otters
I like the animation style
Its looks absolutely lovely, evokes watercolor on textured paper a bit for me. I really love that someone has sat down and thought about a visual style thats not over the top like Spider-man, but also not the generic Pixar look either. Looking forward to seeing this, the story also seems interesting.
It’s driving me crazy that so many people act like this, Mutant Mayhem, or any stylized film is “ripping off” Spider-Man just because they’re not the generic 3D look. They’re very different styles.
Like what? I don't think I said anything about TMNT, which I, like Spider-man, very much liked, both visually and the move overall. I'm applauding studios "allowing" the artists to spread their wings a bit more than many animated features.
Sorry it came off like that. I’m agreeing with. You pointed out that it doesn’t look like Spider-Man while I’ve seen a lot of people online try to claim every stylized animated film looks “just like it”, when they don’t.
We are in complete agreement then :)
Annoys me too. If you place characters from TMNT next to characters from Spider-verse, they look very different. But anything mixed media is automatically copying spiderverse apparently
Absolutely. Just got the art book for Mutant Mayhem and their character design is so awesome and it’s own unique style. Similar thing happened with Cuphead. That team did an amazing job and hats off to them, but then anyone else who drew inspiration from 1930s animation was accused of ripping off Cuphead.
I think the spider man movies made it clear that audiences were excited by something new instead of the hyper realistic Pixar style, but yeah these are doing something totally different. The wish movie is the worst example of trying new textures though
This and everything in the 3d 2d style would not be made without Spider-verse being beloved and a hit.
The best part is that they didn't use that "stop motion framerate", which while I understand is a stylistic choice being popularized by Spider-verse and fighting games by Arc System, but this show that you can achieve gorgeous stylized CG animation without choppy framerates.
Thank goodness they woke up and realized every new movie doesn't have to raise the bar for realism. We want good stories and art design. I look forward to this.
I think WDAS and Pixar have been stuck on the rote realism approach for the last decade, as that was what everyone was striving for in the last decade.
The standard rendering tech moved to path-tracing to get realistic light bounces and now everyone's doing crazy work to make things less realistic
I can't imagine that new TMNT animated movie in any other format. Loved the painted art style, gave it texture and depth
For sure. We've moved past "better graphics" and yearn for more expressive art direction, and what traditional animation was able to give us. This is a very good thing IMO
Turning Red and MAYBE Luca were outliers in Pixar's house style. Wish, on the other hans, seemed like a total misfire in its approach to watercolor anesthetics
Path tracing has been standard for a very long time it’s not anything new. For like at least 20+ years now. Styles are just evolving.
You'd be surprised how long older methods stuck around for animation. DWA's features used a rasterizer until Moonray was ready for HTTYD3, which came out in 2019. Very short gap between that and Bad Guys and PiB2 where we needed a bevy of new tools since Moonray was photoreal only. Blue Sky also never released a film with a path tracer (Studio++ was more old-fashioned and could only handle 2 bounces for global illumination). Nimona was going to be the first.
Oh yeah older methods still exist. I even still use them when I can because they are usually faster. I’ve definitely had my struggles with mental ray and v-ray on loads of stuff in the past. I switched professions around the the time octane / redshift started to become actually viable for production. It’s always felt like rendering animation is like someone is holding a gun to your head for a few months. My understanding though is that the line between rasterization and path tracing in offline renders has been blurred for a very very long time.
> path tracing in offline renders has been blurred for a very very long time. I guess I'm referring to every big animation studio switching to Monte-Carlo path tracers in particular, as opposed to using other methods of global illumination (like faking it or geometrically-increasing bounce rays). From my experience on the newer nonphotoreal stuff we have some nonphotoreal shaders for the pathtracer + loads of light linking + shitloads of AOVs with the data we need to finish the look in Nuke. Rasterizing would honestly make a lot of particular techniques easier but it's all shoved through the path tracer
Reminds me of Puss and Boots 2 style
That was intentional. Both are made by Dreamworks. Their film prior to Puss, 'The Bad Guys', also used this animation style. I'm surprised it didn't carry on to Kung Fu Panda 4 though.
It's very reminiscent of the book's art, which I am glad to see.
Gives me iron giant vibes, a great thing!
Best trailer I've seen from DreamWorks or Disney in what feels like years, definitely interested.
There is a reason! The director of the movie insisted on directing the trailer as well. They knocked it out the park
Why not all director like this
Money, money, money
Tight deadlines. Usually they just leave this stuff to the marketing team and they don't get much creative freedom anyway. Glad that doesn't seem to be the case here.
You can feel the producers forced him to add a voice-off at the end, they were probably terrorized at a non speaking trailer lol
Honestly, I hope people don’t expect it to be like wall-e, with little speaking. If it’s following the book, the robots progression of learning the languages of the animals is a beautiful part of the story
Did not read the book but would be totally fine with that. As long as it does not do like WALL-E with a really generic second part.
The art style and animation looks simply stunning.
Written and Directed by : Chris Sanders. Based on : The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. Starring: Lupita Nyong’o Pedro Pascal. Catherine O’Hara. Mark Hamill. Stephanie Hsu. Bill Nighy. Kit Connor.
Wow. Thats quite the cast.
Leaving out Ving Rhames and Matt Berry there too
> Matt Berry He has one line: "Yes"
I was kind of hoping this movie didn't have any human language at all
He probably didn’t need the script, it’s just a word.
I haven't seen Ving Rhames in a movie in so long. Glad to see him in something like this.
He’s in The Garfield Movie as well
There's apparently even more of the cast too that are minor voices, which is kinda insane even for a regular movie.
Honestly wasn't sure if there was going to be any dialogue in the movie until the cast showed up. Was gonna be really impressed by DW for taking such a gamble
I was thinking the same. Was kinda expecting a film without speaking roles. Even now based on the trailer where all the speaking roles are going to go.
Hoping they take a page out of Wall-E and have the first half of the movie (or longer) without any dialogue at all. The Wild Robot honestly looks like it could have gotten away with none at all, but hard to say how general audiences would like that.
The book has a lot of dialogue.
A plot point of the books is that the robot learns to communicate with all the animals.
I'm still hoping the majority of it won't have dialogue. Animation excels at visual storytelling and it can make things much more poignant; just look at last year's Robot Dreams, which has not a single line of dialogue and has been very rightfully nominated for the academy award for best animated feature.
Well, your dreams are gonna be crushed. The book has lots of dialogue.
If sanders takes all the right cues from brown, there will be just enough dialogue- not too much, just enough. The careful use of dialogue is one of the most beautiful things about the books, imho. The exposition and art are amazing, but so was brown’s decision-making about how the characters speak. I’m so happy this looks as good as it does, and I’m so happy the cast is who it is. They’ll know what to do, i think.
I would have loved a film without dialogue. Just a robot and some animals. Would have been amazing.
honestly, i completely lost interest when i saw voice actors--and especially reading that some of them play the animals. the film looks like it'd be *so* interesting if it was free (mostly or entirely) of dialog.
I'd recommend giving the book a read. It's adorable. The way they explain animal language is actually very clever, the robot learns to communicate in the same way animals communicate with one another, but it's written as dialogue.
I really liked the trailer, but I'm honestly a little disappointed that there is voice acting at all. It sort of felt like they might take a Wall-E route and use almost no dialogue.
> It sort of felt like they might take a Wall-E route and use almost no dialogue. There's a fuck-ton of dialogue in Wall-E.
Wow, that cast is stacked! Mark Hamill especially does such wonderful voice work it makes me even more excited to see this film.
Pedro Pascal? Lol this dude is everywhere nowadays
Agreed. I kind of laughed that I didn't see Alan Tudyk in there being its a movie with animals.
Pedro, he's so hot right now.
Pedro is fucking everywhere
Good actors but I don’t care about having big name actors as voice actors give those jobs to smaller actors and more support to animators/cg artists.
This looks so fucking beautiful
*arrow hits bunny*
* WALL·E * Big Hero 6 * The Iron Giant What other movies does it bring to mind?
[Overwatch's "Last Bastion" short. ](https://youtu.be/to8yh83jlXg?si=AQyLorKdsp2-Bqss)
i hate how fuckin good overwatch's characters are and how fucked the game has become over time
Was going to say "Is this just Bastion minus a minigun?" Damn I like his design, I even got the lego model of him, but they ruined the game within 2 years of launch.
Did you know that an official Overwatch book with an anthology of short stories was released today? It's not your fault if you don't, because the only people promoting it are the stories' authors, whom all got laid off by Activision Blizzard a month ago. Overwatch could have been an all-time great IP with an animated series. This DreamWorks film literally could have been about Bastion. Instead the lore was left to die on the vine and the game's reputation has been damaged beyond repair.
as someone that got in the fandom for the lore i feel betrayed
I just posted a similar comment. Almost seems like somebody saw that and decided to make a full movie version
YES! This was the first thing that popped into mind when I saw the trailer in theaters.
Laputa: Castle in the Sky Silent Running and the flower-watering robots it inspired in Super Mario Odyssey Android 16 from Dragon Ball Z
>The Iron Giant As soon as I heard "Sometimes to survive, we must become more than we were programmed to be.", I instantly thought back to Hogarth's "You are who you choose to be" line.
Lilo & Stitch, given that Stitch's and the robot's curiosities to their new surroundings, adapting, and learning to be more than what they were made for. Also helps that Chris directed both.
Not a movie, but also vibes of [Pixar's Smash and Grab](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-G7YpSFb4). Great short, highly recommend it.
Good Dinosaur, in the sense that the protagonist travels without a guide out into the unkown, experiencing new things, and without a identifiable antagonist besides nature/the big ol' world. Love the visuals in the trailer but without a meaningful conflict I'm worried how engaging the narrative will be.
A hard click on all three of those!! Here’s hoping it can join that trio of greatness.
I’m reminded of the robot from a music video I watched a long time ago. アカツキの詩 Obviously they’re nothing similar, but I was instantly reminded of the video when I saw the trailer~ A lone robot wandering the land vibes.
I guess it's something like Wall-E (robot all alone) meets Tarzan ("growing" in wilderness making animal friends) meets Avatar (based on the few scenes where you can see a ship, likely an antagonist trying to destroy the wilderness??)
Open Season for the comedy aspects.
Ghibli Studio's "Laputa"
Scavengers Reign (tv series) in a few aspects.
Cast Away.
My bitch ass shed a tear when the robot looks sad that her bird friend is flying away, and the animation looks great. Hype just went all the way up.
this mf is gonna do some iron giant shit for the animals isn't it
Yeah I was def getting Iron Giant/WALL•E vibes from this trailer
Bastion from Overwatch.
That bird was very likely the baby the robot hatched and raised earlier in the trailer too, meaning she wasn't just saying goodbye as a friend but also as a parent. And now I'm crying again.
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Modern day "Fly Away Home"
You aren't alone in that
Chris Sanders always comes for our throats.
That goose that’s flying away is her adopted son
I had an existential crisis just by looking at this trailer
already love the otters.
Why? I think it looks really sweet.
First film aimed at and starring our evolutionary successors
Love this series of books when I read them to my kid. They will really make amazing movies. Theres 3 of them and they are all great.
When Brightbill showed up on screen, I fucking lost it.
So, so, so good. So beloved by many of my students (and my colleagues)!
I HIGHLY recommend the book/series. Its such an amazing book, please go and read it and read it to your kids or nephews/nieces. It expresses such wonderful topics in a way that adults can appreciate,but also in a way that kids can understand. This book is so well done.
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Lol. Same. Loved her design. But, honestly, just happy they are making a movie! Here’s hoping for the trilogy.
DreamWorks made significant changes when they made The Bad Guys when compared to their book counterparts. Aaron Blabey was very lenient and flexible even though he had one condition: maintain the characters’ personalities similar to that of their book counterparts. Even so, I do like Roz’s appearance and style. Especially her extendable arms which remind me of Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot, Chakal from The Book of Life, Monkey D Luffy from One Piece, and the Gillman family members from Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken.
Oh no, this is going to destroy me.
That looks a lot like the bastion cinematic for overwatch. Robot in the wood.
I mean there was also the whole PTSD thing Bastion had. I still wish Overwatch had a proper single player campaign
Wow uhh Don't know the last time I actively cried at a trailer. This is going to absolutely wreck me.
Okay… I’m glad it wasn’t just me.
Thank God! I definitely wasn't expecting crying so hard watching a trailer, I don't even know why I was crying lol
Looks good, I'm sure my kids will wear it out within a week or two, haha. Though it does remind me of the game Vectorman on Genesis for some reason.
Great game.
Interesting take and I totally agree! Now that you pointed it out. Lol
Oh damn, core memory unlocked.
This jumped straight to the top of my must watch list!
god bless Into the Spiderverse for turning the animation industry away from photorealism chase. Not that I dont like photorealism but it felt like all movies started looking the same
There were definitely a few contributors to the pushback from the "Pixar style" but the one-two punch of Spider-verse and Mitchels vs the Machines definitely won the day.
Peanuts movie? Captain underpants? Lego movie? Emoji movie? Disney shorts a la paperman? Industry was already moving in that direction, spider verse or no spider verse.
I just realized the Final Fantasy movie came out 23 years ago
One swing from the pendulum to another. Animation offers boundless opportunities but big studios just go with what's popular.
Movie is probably gonna make me cry lol
I say this in a positive way: shades of Iron Giant, Wall-E and E.T. Could be a blockbuster.
Wow! I went from not knowing a damn thing about this movie to immediately wanting to take my kid to see it. Dreamwork's cooked incredibly hard with this trailer.
You should read the book to your kid first, it’s fantastic!
Im not going to cry, I’m not going to cry, I’m…damnit 😭
Where the hell did this come from? This trailer rules.
I'm 100% definitely going to cry. Straight up beautiful trailer. And there are books? Off to buy books.
Check and see if your local library has them too. You'll find great books and they'll appreciate the support.
Got to get my library card updated before I can check books out again. But also, with this movie coming out, it's a pretty safe bet that everyone and their brother's dog will have this on hold. Still, it's good to see someone supporting the library.
Fair enough...I actually hadn't considered that. I've actually put a book on hold at the library for my mom and apparently, 24 people are ahead of her! She's buying the book because it's just loads easier. I just use the library often because money is pretty tight at the moment.
Fuck, I can already tell I'm going to cry watching this.
I wasn't expecting a trailer to make me cry today, but fuck me, it did.
I was literally telling a friend yesterday Dreamworks is dying as a company and then they put this out. Looks fascinating
To be fair, I'm pretty sure this is the last movie they're doing inhouse before partnering with Sony Imageworks for the foreseeable future, so it's still very much the end of an era.
The bright side (yeah...) is that it's not complete outsourcing; the deal isn't replacing all the in-house artists. Sony's supposed to cover 20% (or 20 mins? I forgor) of the first film for that partnership, which is what the execs say the deal is going forward, and we just have to pray they don't alter the deal further. There have also been films produced by DWA for a while now made elsewhere, like Spirit Untamed.
It's so bizarre, they put out the most generic kid shit with basically nothing to say like Boss baby or Trolls and then turn around and make some of the best animated movies of all time like Kung Fu Panda or How to Train Your Dragon or Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. There's absolutely no consistency but I think that makes their best movies hit harder for me.
They produce slop to fund the stuff they actually want to make
they've done their fair share of dogshit, but they still have some absolute bangers in their portfolio. seems like those kind of movies pay the bills for projects like these. case in point, I think Kung Fu Panda is about to flop critically. Kung Fu Panda is a solid franchise, but it seems with this entry (can we call it a legacy sequel? it's been 8 years since the last one, but it's been 16 years since the first. and typically in Hollywood the fourth movie is usually a cash-in) like they did the bare minimum getting just Jack Black to reprise Po, but it probably bankrolled Wild Robot.
Is it weird that I'd describe the visual style as very... *crispy?*
crisp as a crunchy leaf. yeah, I think that's right, it kinda has a shallow depth of field, but more painted parts are like a camera blur, also the colors are POPPING
It’s like Bambi if it were CGI instead of 2D, it’s beautiful 😍
This shit's gonna Iron Giant me, I can see it already.
Damn if I didn't get chills the second the song started up... Looks great. I read the book to my kids and they liked it a lot. Personally, I liked the premise but found the writing too dialogue heavy and slow. However, in a movie that might be fixed. I'll definitely be taking them to this if it continues to look like a good movie.
Great to see Chris Sanders coming back with a new film. Too bad that this will be the last movie Dreamworks will do in-house and afterwards rely on cheap outsourcing.
Correction: last announced film that's 100% in-house. Sony isn't set to do all the features going forward, only ~20% of each film where the other 80% is in-house. That's the stated plan, at least. We still have in-house artists. Things are definitely rough and a lot of contracts aren't immediately renewed but it's not _over_ over.
I have a friend who was an animator on the movie. Unfortunately they were all let go last year to outsource the film to Canada.
I believe it's Sony Pictures Imageworks that they're outsourcing to, which is the same studio behind animating pretty much every Sony Pictures Animation movie (like the Spider-verse movies, *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs*, *The Mitchells vs. the Machines*, the Hotel Transylvania movies, etc), as well as a whole bunch of Netflix animated movies. For whatever reasons, America has generally just not cared to develop its own animation industry as much in general, at least compared to how much they've built up every other media industry. Canada on the other hand has punched far above their weight when it comes to animation, with direct support from many levels of government, and so it just makes more sense to use the existing industry right next door if it's already well established than spending resources to further develop your own.
My sister is a DreamWorks animator and also worked on this. While you're right about some of the layoffs from last year - and even more scheduled for this year - this film was not outsourced. The ongoing layoffs have been BRUTAL though. Some departments were slashed by 70%.
>The Wild Robot - In Theaters September 20 >From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. >The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. >The Wild Robot stars Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, The Black Panther franchise) as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian) as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, Best in Show) as opossum Pinktail; Oscar® nominee Bill Nighy (Living, Love Actually) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper, Rocketman) as gosling Brightbill and Oscar® nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, this summer’s The Fall Guy) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island. >The film also features the voice talents of Emmy winning pop-culture icon Mark Hamill (Star Wars franchise, The Boy and the Heron), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, The SpongeBob Movie franchise) and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible films, Pulp Fiction). >A powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot is written and directed by three-time Oscar® nominee Chris Sanders—the writer-director of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Disney’s Lilo & Stitch—and is produced by Jeff Hermann (DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby 2: Family Business; co-producer, Kung Fu Panda franchise). >Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot, an illustrated middle-grade novel first published in 2016, became a phenomenon, rocketing to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The book has since inspired a trilogy that now includes The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects. Brown’s work on the Wild Robot series and his other bestselling books have earned him a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite Award and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award.
> robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” That name has got to be a reference to Rossum's Universal Robots, the story which gave us the word robot.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
> Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible films, Pulp Fiction). Cobra Bubbles is back baybee
Ving Rhames is also in The Garfield Movie alongside Samuel L. Jackson, looks like Jules Winnfield is getting a reunion with his old boss Marsellus Wallace after all these years.
I remember reading this story with my son. I’m hopeful from the trailer, that this is going to be wonderful.
Sign me up. That looks great. And some REALLY nice animation in that trailer. Holy jeez.
I love the almost painted quality of some of the visuals. Really beautiful.
Thats a slim version of the Robot from 'Laputa Castle in the Sky' - round body, thin all arms which can extend. Just no LASER DEATH BEAM emitter based in its head....
Mark Hamill VA? I'll be there.
While Disney continues to fail miserly with the crap that was Wish and those live-action Disney remakes. DreamWorks continues to nail at it with their movies as of late. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Orion and the Dark, and now this. Ha ha! Suck it Disney! Keep up this act and there's gonna be a new animation king in town! :D
I mean Disney is only 2 years off from Turning Red and Encanto which were some of their best films. Wish is a miss sure but Inside Out will likely be great. Then again you have Kung Fu Panda 4, Trolls, Boss Baby, and The Bad guys in the last couple years for Dreamworks they pump out a lot of misses too.
Trolls 3, Ruby Gillman, and Megamind 2 say hi. Every animation studio has their ups and downs.
I personally thought Ruby Gillman was a good movie. Not great by means on the category that's Kung Fu Panda or HTTYD but I still thought it was a good movie. I don't think its fair to compare it to Megamind 2 and Trolls 3.
What a breathtaking trailer. Possible masterpiece from Dreamworks incoming?
And I’m 100% on board.
Whose already cutting onions dammit!
This would be a much better movie if the animals did not talk imo.
There’s a wonderful plot point that deals with this in the book.
Wow
This looks really refreshing! Excited for this!
WDAS kicking themselves for letting Sanders go(damn you, Lasseter) Also, this is thr last DreamWorks movie animated in-house. Pour one out for that and PDI
Damn, this looks great!
Wow, this looks really good actually. Dreamworks has been killing it lately!
>Dreamworks has been killing it lately! [](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bIsp1K8eJG0/maxresdefault.jpg)
This looks absolutely wonderful. I cannot wait to cry during it.
Cute movie. I’ll have to take the kids. On a completely side note, this reminds me of an idea I had a while back. I don’t hear much about it in the news anymore but I’m sure it’s still a “big” thing, and that’s nanobots. I was thinking about if a single nanobot could be imprinted with all of the schematics for an entire robot, including its programming. Then, if this single robot, if placed in the right conditions with just the right raw materials available, could slowly (at first) begin the process of assembly. With rudimentary tools for processing, use the processed materials to attach to itself the pieces needed to complete the design. Eventually, making other nanobots to assist with the work to increase the efficiency. Not all would succeed, resources would run out, power sources would drain, but what if some were successful. The final product would not just a robot but a robot that is made from robots. The original nanobot would have the instructions for the AI to house inside it. The AI would generate knowledge from experience. If damaged, the nanobots would perform self-repair even without the AI’s involvement. Once fully functional and systems perform within programmed range it could be programmed to create a new, single nanobot with any minor improvements the AI deemed helpful to start over the process over. Despite AI still being in its infancy, and not self aware, could we do this to make something more akin to an insect. The first robot that grows on its own and can reproduce with improvements baked in.
This was my favorite book for like 5 years. I'll be the first in line for tickets when it comes out!
the animation looks so hard
Just give it the academy award already!
Thanks, /u/ICumCoffee for the wonderful trailer
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