A pet chameleon stranded in the desert invents a tough-guy persona to survive a lawless town, and the fiction becomes real enough to matter. Gore Verbinski's 2011 animated Western leans on genre homage and an unusually cinematic visual approach for an animated film.
Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, service robot Roz has to learn to survive among wildlife that first treats her as a monster, and ends up raising an orphaned gosling as her own. Chris Sanders adapted Peter Brown's 2016 novel with a hand-painted, watercolour visual style built to resemble Bambi filtered through Hayao Miyazaki.