“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

Director Chris Sanders, production designer Raymond Zibach, and VFX supervisor Jeff Budsberg tell IndieWire about hand-painting their sci-fi adventure to get an impressionistic 2D look. “Up to this ...