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Netflix drops second trailer for Brad Bird's animated film Ray Gunn

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.

Leaked 3D model files from The Iron Giant resurface online, fans reanimate them

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.'