Netflix has released a trailer and images for the upcoming animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers from Reel FX Animation Studios. The 3DCG action-comedy follows giant robots that must save the world from invading kaiju while overcoming their own sibling rivalry. The show hits the streamer on 4 August.
The series is produced by Reel FX Animation Studios using the studio’s proprietary virtual production animation pipeline, where all aspects of the show are visualized and rendered in Unreal Engine. It is Netflix’s first animated series to use Epic Games’ Unreal Engine throughout the production.
The animators worked from the motion-capture footage, choosing how much of it to incorporate into the final performances. “When you’re animating stuff [traditionally], you construct all that fake stuff: every hand gesture, every head movement — all this incredible tedious stuff,” says showrunner Tommy Blacha. “And this solves a lot of that.”
The show is directed by Oscar winner Mark Andrews (Brave). While Andrews is an animation veteran, the producers believe Unreal opens up animation production to a wider range of filmmakers. “These innovations make animation production more accessible to the live-action filmmaker, allowing them to use their existing toolset and vocabulary to readily direct animated film and television content, and even hire a live action crew for production and editing,” reads a press release.
It is created by executive producers Victor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres.
