Annecy: Netflix and Aardman's "Robin Robin" takes off in November

Annecy: Netflix and Aardman's "Robin Robin" takes off in November


UK stop-motion gem mine Aardman Animations and Netflix are preparing to leave their half-hour animated debutante Robin robin leave the nest during the holiday season, hatching a fascinating teaser of the release date during the project's Work in Progress session in Annecy today. The heartwarming short film centers on a bird raised by a family of rogue mice who begins to wonder who it belongs to and sets out on a daring journey of self-discovery. Robin robin should debut on November 27.

The session - dotted with animatics, production art, and behind-the-scenes clips - was moderated by Aardman's Oscar-nominated co-founder Peter Lord (pirates! Band of misfits, Chicken Run), which introduced the trailer for this first in a series of exciting collaborations between the studio and the streamer. The special will be followed by another Christmas adventure for Shaun the Sheep and a sequel to Chicken race.

Reflecting on the experience of working with a story studio team on the project, director Dan Ojari (Slow Derek) remarked: "I think the situation has remained the same, and the determination, which is a robin adopted in a family of mice and how he might feel different, and it's a story where she understood her difference - that element remained the same. But there were huge areas where we didn't have at all, even just the idea [of] 'the theft' which is [the mice] sneaking into a house, when we started it wasn't there. just, how do we make a robin feel like he's a little different than a mouse? Maybe he just turned things upside down and they're really sneaky and quiet. Through development we realized there had to be a real practical lifestyle that mice they do and that Robin cannot do.

Lord, a clay master, came up with what filmmakers chose to create Robin robin with felt puppets.

"We really wanted to lean on the feel and aesthetic of stop-motion and do something that was absolutely, unquestionably visceral and real," the director Mikey please (Elliott from Earth) explained. “And I think there's also something about the felt that's quite - seasonal? It's something we would associate with Christmas, and its warmth, its softness. And there is also something surprising in the way the felt glows, which is similar to other materials we used in our shorts such as Plastazote, which is slightly translucent - even felt has that way of absorbing light and of being able to have this kind of beautiful glow on it, which we were very excited about. "

"But it was also a big learning curve for us, learning how to use it in a way that wouldn't have been too distracting," Please added. "And of course there is a huge wealth of beautiful felt films out there at the moment and we were looking to build on that tradition and do something that was very rich and colorful in its characterization."

The session also dived into collaboration with musical duo The Bookshop Band (one of which is Please's brother), the warm, autumnal blend of Christmas hue production, and the vibrant family dynamics of Robin's adoptive mouse family.

"I probably knew about halfway through before [the directors] even finished telling me the story - and it must have been that practice of telling stories over and over, because I knew right away, with great certainty, that it was going to happen, and it was going to happen to Aardman. ", manager. producer Sarah Cox (Chicken race) recalled his first meeting in Annecy with Please and Onjari.

Robin robin the voice is played by Bronte Carmichael as Robin, Adeel Akhtar as Dad Mouse, Richard E. Grant as Magpie and Gillian Anderson as the ravenous Cat. The short film features music from The Bookshop Band.



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