Name: ARCO Exclusive Featurette - The Making of ARCO with Ugo Bienvenu & Natalie Portman (2025)
Uploaded: 2026-01-24T17:36:02.000Z
Duration: 4 min 8 s
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And I thought, okay, we're living in a really bad science fiction movie right now.

The superlative

Maybe it's our fault, people that tell science fiction stories, you know, because we only imagine the worst, so only the worst happens.

It's easy to criticize things, say, this is bad.

I want to be with the kids, like making sandcastles in the beach, not the ones that are breaking them, you know?

And one day I drew a face and put the colors behind him getting out of the sky.

And then, yeah, it was the start of everything.

Well, I was lucky enough to come in when there was already a 40 minute or so animatic.

The director's vision was so clear and so beautiful aesthetically.

And the story was so profound and meaningful.

Independent animation is not a very easy world.

Before Natalie and Sophie arrived, we were a small team, like four people, four or five people working on the movie, drawing it and making music and sounds.

After finishing the animatic, it took us one year and two months with 250 people to make all the images and to finish the sound.

To see the hand drawn nature of what Yugo does is extraordinary.

I'm a French and European reader and I discovered Japanese animation when I was seven with Dragon Ball Z and then met the work of Miyazaki at Ghibli.

My colors were really impacted by living abroad.

Guatemala and they blend the colors in such a weird way.

You know, in Chad, it's really another way.

So I think it's a mix of a worldwide culture.

There is a little bit of citizen of the world, but also stranger everywhere.

You can see that with Hugo's work that he has such a unique vision and way of seeing.

I think animation is so incredible because every opportunity is at your fingertips.

When you're doing a voice, you can anyone.

The mother and father voices are blended for Mickey's voice.

For the English language version, it's a mix of my voice and Mark Ruffalo's voice.

And it was amazing to build a new voice based on two personalities.

In the French version, we modelized the voices of the two actors.

I thought, okay, it's a robot, so let's use the voice of robots, which is AI in fact.

And it was too perfect, and it didn't work.

We had to go back and to do it with hands, you know, cutting the voices.

It's upsetting to see the parents only showing up as holograms, but

it's also beautiful to see that a robot can be caring and nurturing.

Hugo's vision shows us that our imagination can help us build a more beautiful future.

if we want to create a better world, I think we have to rely on imagination.

Happiness and joy bring happiness and joy, and

pain just brings more pain, you know, Light is hard to bring in the world, but