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The new Netflix film, “Robin Robin,” pushes the envelope of what’s possible with stop-motion animation. The film’s directors, Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, sit down with WIRED to go over the some of the techniques that went into the making of “Robin Robin.” Robin Robin is available to watch now on Netflix, Still haven’t subscribed…

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Robin Robin is available to watch now on Netflix,

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  1. Marty D

    December 3, 2021 at 5:55 pm

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  2. Torian Cromar

    December 3, 2021 at 5:59 pm

    Art and creativity is so meticulously, and it’s a crafting process. If you want the result to be good it takes time and real effort and lots of it.

  3. anonUK

    December 3, 2021 at 6:04 pm

    “Just a tiny amount…”

    • Hat Wearington

      December 3, 2021 at 8:02 pm

      Anyone fancy a pint?

  4. Jo Neff Draws

    December 3, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    Aardman was such a huge part of my childhood. Love Wallace and Grommet (that theme will forever live in my mind), I now love chicken pot pie because of Chicken Run (even though it was depicted as a horrific death factory in the film… maybe there’s something wrong with me ????) and Flushed Away is truly underrated. So glad they’re still out here making stop motion despite all the hurdles they’ve faced over the years.

  5. Jonny Stolpe

    December 3, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    These guys are definitely masters of their craft…. Nice job ????????

  6. Kimberly G.

    December 3, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    I’m so grateful to artists. The human experience would be so much dimmer without their creations.

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  8. Lucho Sbuttoni

    December 3, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    Que enfermizo y estúpidamente hermoso es esto. Arte puro… amo.

  9. Its Piglet

    December 3, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    I loved this film

  10. KYB77

    December 3, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    This movie is 32mins long and took two years stop motion is really difficult but the results are worth it ????

  11. Spacemaster 13

    December 3, 2021 at 8:35 pm

    ????????????

  12. mekkio77

    December 3, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    Robin Robin is a beautiful piece of art. I wonder if it’s harder to animate using felt than to use more solid puppets like they do in Laika movies. Everything in Robin Robin looked so soft and cozy. It gave the movie a “warm” feeling to it. Like a fuzzy pair of knitted mittens on a cold Christmas caroling.

  13. Benjamín Prieto Palacios

    December 4, 2021 at 12:43 am

    I love Aardman films so much, Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run were a huge part of my childhood

  14. Prizmaplay

    December 4, 2021 at 1:32 am

    You should do an auto complete with skrillex

  15. Need Help

    December 4, 2021 at 5:23 am

    *That is a DEDICATION*

  16. J B

    December 4, 2021 at 5:50 am

    I was really hoping they would go into how they remove the rigs and scaffolding in the image 🙁 beautiful explanation otherwise

  17. Kyra

    December 4, 2021 at 7:00 am

    Stop motion has always been amazing !

  18. Mindlessshit

    December 4, 2021 at 9:33 am

    I’m a really impatient person. I can’t believe how much patience and effort they put for every scene in order to create stop-motion films! This job isn’t for me.

  19. Present

    December 4, 2021 at 1:52 pm

    Thanks for revealing the production stages of stop-motion animation❤️✨

  20. Magic World by Jörg

    December 4, 2021 at 3:05 pm

    ,cool video keep up the great content.. Thank you…

  21. Cicada Cult studio

    December 4, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    Stop motion can be so hard to produce for anyone like me…its required editing skills , patient, financial support and creativity

  22. MedEighty

    December 4, 2021 at 4:44 pm

    People working in stop animation have got to be some of the most patient people on the planet.

  23. Laura Waldee

    December 4, 2021 at 5:18 pm

    I saw that animation movie a few nights ago/ days ago it was AWESOME and soooooo asthetic

  24. Ciaran Jasper

    December 4, 2021 at 6:03 pm

    *Ben wyatt has entered the chat

  25. Lowe Haak

    December 4, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    I hear the narrator say “Shaun of the sheep”

  26. Anym

    December 5, 2021 at 2:03 am

    It’s a pity that stop motion is a dying art, which is understandable ofc, but man is it my favorite animation style

    • Capalot901

      December 6, 2021 at 4:24 am

      We still got aardman and laika holding it down tho lol

  27. FurryEskimo

    December 5, 2021 at 2:49 am

    Did this already come out!?
    I didn’t see it advertised since hearing about it!

  28. Cosmic.Tropics

    December 5, 2021 at 3:35 am

    ‘Shawn of the Sheep’ ????

  29. HiByebtwn

    December 5, 2021 at 3:55 am

    This looks amazing!
    So intricate, can’t wait to watch this!

  30. RickTGB

    December 5, 2021 at 4:55 am

    havent heard of aardman in a long time, really sad flushed away or that pirates movie didnt get a sequel or anything, pretty good movies :p

  31. linda mims

    December 5, 2021 at 5:49 pm

    I miss the damage cams

  32. Yingle

    December 6, 2021 at 12:38 am

    This was very pleasing for the eyes. Love ‘real’ stuff.

  33. Edrick

    December 6, 2021 at 1:37 am

    Amazing

  34. Wolfferoni

    December 6, 2021 at 2:17 am

    This is absolutely amazing. I’ve always been so fascinated by stop motion since I was a kid because one day a claymation educator visited my school and allowed us to make our own super short claymation vids. There are so many layers to stop motion movies these days, it’s really just awe-inspiring.

  35. Invox

    December 6, 2021 at 3:09 am

    Can’t wait to see it.

  36. Munisamy RajaK

    December 6, 2021 at 10:19 am

    Amazing…????

  37. Viktor Andersson Lindell

    December 6, 2021 at 12:29 pm

    muhammed, jsesussu big allah muslimue

  38. James' Animations

    December 6, 2021 at 6:41 pm

    This is great Robin Robin was sooo good

  39. Geoff Burkman

    December 6, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    Every once in a while you realize the amazing creativity of human beings.

  40. Jesamari A. Brosas

    December 7, 2021 at 5:08 am

    This film is a masterpiece!!

  41. Jay -

    December 7, 2021 at 6:53 pm

    loved this movie and amazing how much creativity and effort it takes!

  42. Kaedenn

    December 7, 2021 at 9:00 pm

    Wait, *everything* is captured in-camera? Wha…?!

  43. Luca Kroon

    December 8, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    So where can I watched the human version?

  44. Nathan Cruz

    December 9, 2021 at 2:55 am

    Like the opposite of The Lego Movie

  45. ScottyJDog

    December 10, 2021 at 2:07 am

    Ah yes Shaun of the Sheep, what a great wright movie

  46. Alpha Games

    December 10, 2021 at 5:58 am

    I make Lego minecraft short films this way

  47. Crazy Kid

    December 10, 2021 at 7:39 am

    ????????

  48. Danny Newman

    December 10, 2021 at 6:36 pm

    Did he say “Sean of the sheep” ????????

  49. Pollo DiGomma

    December 11, 2021 at 8:15 am

    Only at Aardman you will find…
    the *_CHEESE_*

  50. Chris Melara

    December 11, 2021 at 10:33 am

    This reminds me of how Coraline was made and that was like 11 years ago

  51. Flamecrew9 At roblox

    December 11, 2021 at 2:23 pm

    Never seen this, never really liked stop motion but this looks epic. Makes me wanna do it.

  52. Michael Savidge

    December 11, 2021 at 4:22 pm

    Hmmm, shooting stereoscopic to bypass rotoscoping…interesting…

  53. That Guy Again

    December 11, 2021 at 4:54 pm

    when i walk past their studio in bristol ive always wondered what;s going on, this is beautiful

  54. Julie

    December 11, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    Such an adorable movie! So fun to see needle felting in stop motion. Genius!

  55. Caesar

    December 12, 2021 at 12:06 am

    0:10 “Shaun of the Sheep”

  56. JJ Koester

    December 12, 2021 at 12:35 am

    Shaun of the Sheep kills me.

  57. Daniel C

    December 12, 2021 at 3:43 am

    Shaun of the Sheep is a good movie, but I hope we won’t have to wait too long before another Wallace and the Gromit film. A sequel to Chicken the Run would be neat, too.

  58. BABYCOUP22

    December 12, 2021 at 9:20 am

    Wo! where’s Nick Park?!

  59. Oliver Santos

    December 12, 2021 at 2:49 pm

    Let’s draw robin robin

  60. JonesAndYou

    December 12, 2021 at 4:37 pm

    Is Nardwar the voice over?

  61. Smith

    December 12, 2021 at 10:12 pm

    8 seconds of footage per week…..amazing!

  62. GATTACA

    December 13, 2021 at 3:29 am

    Stop making this nonsense! All we want is new Shaun the Sheep!

  63. al201103

    December 13, 2021 at 4:26 pm

    “How stop motion movies are animated at Aardman”
    Move the finger….just a tiny amount

  64. Michael M

    December 14, 2021 at 12:15 am

    The finished product looks so gorgeous and oozes with character in a way that I haven’t seen achieved by mass-produced GCI animation. It’s really special that these types of productions are around, considering the nature and competitiveness of the industry

  65. Train

    December 14, 2021 at 5:02 am

    I’m so glad we still have stop motion movie producers

  66. Crispy Chaos

    December 14, 2021 at 7:42 am

    I’m sorry but I don’t like these kind of stop motion animations, too much blue/green screen, cgi, copy and paste w/e is added. Like with the Laika’s Missing Link. It makes it feel like a 3d animated film which leaves me to wonder why they couldn’t have done it digitally in the first place.

  67. Yrjan Lund

    December 14, 2021 at 12:02 pm

    This movie was one of the highlights of my christmas season this year. Just absolutely amazing to watch!

    • Matt The King

      December 16, 2021 at 3:15 pm

      For real for real…????

  68. robert maclean

    December 14, 2021 at 6:30 pm

    They said that they didn’t want any CG in thier film but I am sorry when you shoot on a blue/green screen or take multiply plate shots and composite them together to create the final shot.. guess what that is CG.
    Here’s a Google definition of CG.
    “Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. Wikipedia”

    So sorry, but you got a ton of CG in your film.

  69. Joe

    December 14, 2021 at 8:06 pm

    So friggin cool

  70. Tim Mckay

    December 14, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    This is such an amazing film, love it! Hope there is another one in the works ????

  71. Buster

    December 14, 2021 at 8:14 pm

    Nothing worse than an animator in a Hawaiian shirt

  72. R3

    December 15, 2021 at 7:15 am

    i love how they make sound easy but there eyes are about to burst into tears>…

  73. Dentist Rider

    December 15, 2021 at 10:47 pm

    I swear I heard him say “Shauna the Sheep”

  74. Oli Barton

    December 15, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    Absolutely love Aardman and what they do, so really interesting to get such an insight into it.

  75. HockersExplains

    December 16, 2021 at 12:27 am

    Shawn of the sheep ????????????????

  76. jeetesh goyal

    December 16, 2021 at 3:17 am

    I’m happy that ardman is brining the magic to the new genration of kids

  77. 姫子pium

    December 16, 2021 at 7:53 am

    It’s mindblowing to me that people actually have the patience to do this

  78. dew fairy

    December 16, 2021 at 10:36 am

    I would pay to watch a behind the scenes movie (series)

  79. Matt The King

    December 16, 2021 at 3:12 pm

    Such a cool movie….????

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