Composer Kris Bowers and director Chris Sanders discover they have a common connection beyond “The Wild Robot”

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00:00Do you draw Chris? Yeah, I used to I used it's funny. I went to

00:05cartooning school when I was a kid and I say with Bush Hartman who did the Fairly Oddparents and

00:11Yeah, like literally I remember one of my classes and he

00:14Had a meeting pitching the Fairly Oddparents. He's like, yeah, I think it went pretty well and

00:18I was in Cal Arts with him

00:25Yeah, when I was I wanted to be an animator just as much as a pianist up until I got to high school

00:31And I went to an art high school

00:33My plan was to get in for music and switch to visual arts and my freshman year

00:37I just kind of had this like deep like falling in love with music in a way where I

00:42Remember my summer after freshman year

00:44I got into a jazz camp and an animation camp at Santa Monica City College and I chose the jazz camp and

00:50Then I just stopped drawing. Yeah