Down to his last of nine lives, Puss in Boots teams up with Kitty Softpaws and an unflappably cheerful dog named Perrito to chase the Wishing Star's last wish, while a wolf who is actually Death hunts him across a string of fairy-tale locations. Director Joel Crawford borrowed the painterly, Spider-Verse-influenced visual style DreamWorks had just built for The Bad Guys.
Katie Mitchell, days from leaving for film school and still at odds with her earnest, technology-suspicious father, is stuck on a cross-country family road trip when a smartphone-assistant uprising begins rounding up humanity. Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe's Sony Pictures Animation feature, produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, pairs a hand-painted visual style adapted from Into the Spider-Verse's animation technology with a script built from Rianda's own family history and childhood fascination with robots.