Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked “The Wild Robot.”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.

DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot — from How to Train Your Dragon director Chris Sanders — is the best animated movie of the year.

Undoubtedly it’s easier for animation studios to have an in-house style, but this isn’t the path DreamWorks Animation decided to take when adapting the illustrated children’s novel The Wild Robot by Peter Brown,

"The Wild Robot," the animated science fiction tale of a machine surviving on a deserted island, topped North American box offices this weekend, ending the three-week reign of "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,

The Wild Robot's unexpected success at the box office is great news for both the creatives behind the film and animation at large.

Chris Sanders reveals what caused modern animated films to break from early CG visuals and how The Wild Robot factors this approach into Roz's arc.