“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 ...

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Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin. Twins ...

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 tells IndieWire about his 2D-looking sci-fi adventure, in which robot Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) embraces kindness to survive in the wilderness. Universal premiered the second trailer ...

Sometimes friends have a special song that means something to them and only them. For a dog and robot in the animated film "Robot Dreams," it's an Earth, Wind & Fire song - "September." (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a ...