‘The Wild Robot’ Director Chris Sanders On Finding Roz’s “Engineered Optimism” And The Right “Painterly” Style

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• Sanders came on board 'The Wild Robot' at the perfect time, as DreamWorks had just developed new tools to create a more illustrated, less traditional CG animation style that he was able to push even further.
• Capturing the 'engineered optimism' of the story's robot protagonist, Roz, was a key creative challenge that Sanders tackled by finding the right balance between warmth and mechanic precision.