David S. F. Wilson is the director of “Sonnie’s Edge,” one of the most popular episodes of the Netflix series Love, Death + Robots. Wilson believes that computer animation holds a great deal of untapped potential when it comes to serious science fiction.
“Directing animation is like directing in slow motion,” Wilson says in Episode 514 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “You wield an immense amount of control in animation, because it takes so long, and you can be hyper-specific about what you want.”
Love, Death + Robots takes short stories by top authors such as Alastair Reynolds, Peter F. Hamilton, and Neal Asher and adapts them into dark, atmospheric short films. Wilson would love to see more feature-length movies that take a page from the show. “When Volume 3 launched, they screened some of the new shorts—and some of the old ones—in a movie…
