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Fast forward: the crew at Disney Feature Animation created tools and techniques to develop Meet the Robinsons in little more than a year.(CG Animation)(computer graphics)(Editorial)

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The theme of Walt Disney Pictures' second 3D animated film, Meet the Robinsons, is "keep moving forward." You could as easily apply that theme to the production of the film.

In the movie, Lewis, an orphaned boy and brilliant inventor, wants to find his birth mother. He hopes that his latest invention, a memory scanner, will help. But, a scoundrel wearing an evil bowler hat, named Doris, steals the invention. When Lewis nearly gives up hope, Wilbur Robinson appears out of nowhere, whisks him into the future to look for the Bowler Hat Guy, and introduces Lewis to the wacky Robinson family.

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