However, Ron, as a defective B-Bot, did not require the same elaborate skin texture as the fully functioning counterparts.
“This, in turn, provided a means to bring about a satisfying performance where body and skin could be animated simultaneously - in the same way a human character is animated, with a combination of body poses and facial expressions - and reviewed in animation dailies.” “By developing a rigging system that would drive the different expressions of the skin textures, animators were given full control of both the geometry of the B-Bots (body, arms, wheels) and the skin texture,” said DNEG VFX supervisor Philippe Denis. And so you’re going from big, fun, physical comedy with Ron to subtle eye movements with Barney, and that tells you a lot about the design and the rig.”ĭNEG’s approach to the robots (known as B-Bots) was delivering their performances (aside from their arms and wheels) via different animated skins, which varied from superhero, to bunnies to squirrels, among other design variants.
“But they worked hard in giving us something that was stylistically heightened but delivering a lot of emotion in subtle ways. “It was very much like that bit in ‘Wallace & Gromit’ where he’s laying the track while also being on the train that’s catching up to it,” Smith added. There was the challenge, though, of working with six-time Oscar-winning VFX studio DNEG (“Tenet”) on its first animated feature and getting comfortable with a new pipeline. So you create a situation of comedy opposition, in which they have to learn about each other from first principles and find each other in that wonderful, messy, one-to-one way.” And he learns everything from first principles, and he doesn’t automatically agree and he doesn’t automatically like Barney. And the joy of Ron is that he is a complete tabula rasa, who’s only got four percent of his programs downloaded. “Like many kids who feel inadequate, they’re the ones that haven’t actually really cracked friendship. “It is very much about the process to curate yourself and put some image of yourself out there,” said Smith, who was inspired by “E.T.” and “How to Train Your Dragon,” among others. Thus, for director Sarah Smith (Aardman’s “Arthur Christmas”) and screenwriter Peter Baynham (the “Borat” movies and “Arthur Christmas”), this high-tech, boy-and-his-dog coming-of-age story was an opportunity to explore the impact of social media on children. In “Ron’s Gone Wrong,” the first animated feature by UK-based Locksmith Animation (in theaters only from Disney/20th Century Studios), the titular malfunctioning robot (voiced by Zach Galifianakis) and socially awkward middle-schooler Barney (voiced by Jack Dylan Grazer) struggle to understand the difference between interpersonal and virtual friendship.
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