When director Chris Sanders decided to take on The Wild Robot, the script had been at DreamWorks Animation for a few years.

It’s different, fun, childlike and looks like it was hand-drawn with a crayon-style oil pastel. One artist, Dahye Lee, also known as Dareum Tattoo, is a master of the art of the painterly ...

In what he deems to be a stroke of luck, Sanders came in at the perfect time when the studio had been developing tools to create an animation style that strays from the traditional CG.