I have only HEARD about Robot Dreams apparently coming to DVD (Bluray?) last time I hung out with Robot Dreams people, but I can't confirm nor deny yet XD But I have high hopes!

Pablo Berger lived in New York during the 80s and 90s, where he met Yuko Harami, his now wife AND also member of the team. So they really wanted to make everything as accurate as possible. There was quite a lot of research behind the scenes and you can tell^^

This is so cool to hear TwT Thank you so much.

Here you go, my US friends! Robot Dreams is FINALLY making its way to you!

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Thanks so much for all that. I love how far this little movie has gone.

What I meant was that it's not necessarily a kids film. It wasn't written FOR kids. Kids can watch it, lots of kids have in fact already watched it and they loved it, and could totally pick up on stuff. But the core of the story, the message behind it, is for the people who already know what it's like to have loved and lost.

Well, we didn't win the Oscar! But you know, the competition this year was absolutely fierce. And just the fact that Robot Dreams was at the Oscars is wild and I will be forever proud of our little champion baby TwT

So the birds were the first sequence that we started animating, closely followed by the rabbits. I was in charge of three fourths of the sequence, together with my colleage Adèle, who did the remaining fourth. I remember how excited the guys in the director's room were to see the first ever animated shot (the one where momma bird lands and pecks at Robot's feet).

A lot of us at the studio will remember having doubts when it came to the Blackbird sequence, being one of the least favorite among the team at the time. But that quickly changed, and now it appears to be one of the most memorable according to the public. <3

You’ve watched almost as many times as I have haha! 

And yeah, I believe it’s pretty much up to interpretation, which is why I personally don’t like the French title “Mon ami Robot” which eliminates that nuance. Even at the studio, we couldn’t agree. And we don’t have to. I think the beauty of it being ambiguous is that you can extrapolate to whatever your personal experiences are, and who in your life these characters make you think about. Some people do see it as platonic, some see it romantic, or something else (overthinking can lead to weird conclusions XD). 

Sara Varon, writer of the original comic, said she had put down her dog recently, and there was a bit of that in the story as well. But then ace people happen to see themselves a lot in their dynamic (including me^^). Not even Pablo Berger, the scriptwriter and director, specified what he was going for, if anything.

Dog and Robot to me have been several things, but they’ve always been the people that have made an impact in my life^^

I, of course, am only slightly responsible for making you bawl as it was very much a team effort ^w^ But thank you so much!

As for the flower scene! My, that one was a doozy. For most of production most of us were very uncertain as to how we were going to pull it off, and if it would even be interesting for people. I didn't get to work on the flowers at all myself, so all I can say is they pretty much animated a few flowers referencing real life tap dancing, then duplicated them a few docen times to make the army of tap-dancing flowers with digital magic.

Robot Dreams - Roller skate sequence animation

I love that canonnically Dog is good at nothing... except for roller-skating.

So I was in charge of Layout, Rough, Tie-down and sometimes Clean-up for a good part of the September sequence. The ones in b&w are clean-ups. The ones in color I only animated and someone else cleaned, I just didn't keep my version of those for some reason. I drew so many tiny wheels guys TvT So many...

I also worked on the reprise, right at the end, having to reinterpret the same dance moves without the skates.

The director Pablo Berger made a trip to film a couple of Roller Skate dancers, and that's what I had as reference for the whole dance sequence. I believe they're both in the credits!

It's not silly at all! I'm just not the best person to ask because I'm just a lowly animator and I'm not told this stuff XD

Best I can tell you is: it depends on where you live, because it's already been released in Spain, France and other countries, and has NOT been released in others but will, so just google it and be on the lookout I guess. I think the US release date is in May, but again... *shrug*