15 Sep The Wild Robot (2024)

Programmed

At the front I have to say that both the adults were affected, cried, emoted. This is a Mommy story in a sea of Daddy stories, especially animated ‘family’ fare. It pulled on some formulaic strings, enough for me to say that this knows the formula and effectively followed it. In other words, it accessed our programming. It built particularly on ‘Storm Boy’ and ‘Fly Away Home’ (Anna Paquin!). There’s a Disney spirit to the animal dynamics — a far cry from the anti-Disney references in the launch project, ‘Shrek’.

What I noticed could be imagined. I know that the rendering engine Dreamworks uses allows fractional rendering, so that as they go they can move the camera relatively late in the process. That’s different than the earlier generation still used. The effect is in better cinematic quality and continuity. It means you literally can ‘reshoot’ from a different angle as you do your progressive editing. And it also means you can