Netflix has released a new trailer for Ray Gunn, the upcoming animated feature directed by Brad Bird, set to a soundtrack featuring the B-52s' 'Planet Claire.' Bird describes the film as a blend of The Maltese Falcon and Buck Rogers, mixing a retro-futuristic setting with classic noir detective tropes.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-11-12
Files purporting to be original 3D models of the Giant character from Brad Bird's 1999 film The Iron Giant appeared on the Internet Archive this summer and were spotted by a social media user. Animators have since used the models to create new animations of the character. The film originally combined traditional 2D animation with a CG-rendered Giant, an approach Bird pursued to make the character feel like 'a 3D character living seamlessly in a 2D world.'
animationobsessive.substack.com
· 2026-11-09