Exclusive: The Wild Robot Overprotective Mom Early Animatic [Video]

DreamWorks Animation has shared with AWN an exclusive featurette from its latest animated film, The Wild Robot, written and directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Chris Sanders and starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o. Adapted from Peter Brown’s New York Times bestseller, the 3DCG film is available tomorrow, October 15, to rent or watch at home.

In the video, Sanders breaks down an early version of the story, complete with a simple animatic / storyboards, where Roz is a bit too overprotective as she tries to raise Brightbill, the orphaned gosling. But then, Pinktail the opossum steps in…

The film follows the epic adventure of a robot – ROZZUM unit 7134, ‘Roz’ for short – who’s 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 Nyong’o (Us, The …