Directors Dan Ojari and Mikey Please discuss their Aardman Animations short, which tells the story of a bird raised by mice.
‘s directors — who grew up inspired by Aardman’s work — had been working on the script for several years before meeting Aardman executive creative director Sarah Cox at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. “We’d gone there to pitch this story, and we serendipitously bumped into Sarah in the canteen and had this kind of ad hoc pitch,” relates Please.
The sets and lighting give the short a rich, textured look, as do the stop-motion puppets, which are made of felt. “At one point, we had to choose whether to go down an anthropomorphized route, where perhaps Robin and the other animal characters would’ve been more humanlike, which would be really helpful for animating purposes. But because the theme is about our differences making us stronger, we really wanted to lean into the animal nature of these characters,” explains Please. “We pushed Robin’s design to be birdlike. Her legs bend backward.
The voice cast features Richard E. Grant, who plays a magpie that takes Robin under his “wing” on the journey — and whose character was inspired by Grant’s title character in the 1987 feature
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