“The Wild Robot” is animation veteran Chris Sander’s adaptation Peter Brown’s book about a sentient robot stranded on a remote island. Sound work involved creating the sonic world of the island, ...

“The Wild Robot” supervising sound designer Randy Thom was the supervising sound editor, designer and rerecording mixer on “The Incredibles,” for which he won one of his two Oscars.

Both are animated, both feature little to no human involvement, and both center on unlikely animal allies (and one incredible robot) coming together against all odds. But the similarities between ...