I'm Phil Lord.
Hi, I'm Mike Rianda.
And I'm Chris Miller.
We're going to take you through the Furby fight scene
In The Mitchells vs the Machines.
Shot by shot.
So the Mitchells are running into the toy emporium
to stay safe.
They go into Joy's Toy Emporium
and Joy was one of our modelers.
We found that the darker this scene was,
the funnier it got.
It's shot like a horror film, which I think is great.
What was that?
Uh....
This is the realization of a dream
Mike Rianda has had.
This comes from a real life terror.
I had a Furby growing up and I didn't like it.
So I tried putting it in the closet
and it kept talking.
I'm working out these emotions
on a large scale with a very talented crew.
This is like actually one of the first scenes
that we got so excited about
and were laughing so hard about in the room.
One of the main jobs we all had
was to find a way to justify it in the story.
This seemed like a scene while we were writing it
that was like, "Okay, well this'll clearly
never go in the movie,
but wouldn't this be funny?"
As the movie became more and more real, it was like,
"Oh my God, it's actually happening!"
This is the actual Furby song that they sing.
I believe we got a choir of professional musicians
to sing the Furby song.
For all the characters
we do these drawings that are really detailed.
And then we do a painting of the drawing.
And then we give it to the studio to model in 3D.
For the Furby we just gave them a Furby.
We said, "Here, can you model this?"
And they're like, "Oh yeah."
It's funny, if you could see Rick's jacket in the scene?
One of the producers was like,
"That jacket is the most expensive prop
in the history of this studio!"
Because it has so much detail on it.
We were really adamant that it be wrinkled.
And that always cracks me up
because it's such an easy thing in live action
to just have a jacket.
And in CG, it's oddly expensive.
And then the idea of the world's largest Furby,
which makes no sense.
Why would someone build that?
I believe this Furby is voiced
by director Michael Rianda?
It can only be.
I'll give you a little taste of that.
The Furby can shoot out a giant laser.
Some have questioned why,
which is a great question.
- Gotta keep moving! - Help, human!
It's funny, in the background of that scene
you could see Rick doing the "don't go back" gesture.
And one of the animators added that in
which I thought was really funny.
But Linda's so big hearted,
she has to go back, even if it's a robot
'cause she's already bonded with him.
Thank you, human.
Are you now my mother?
Uh, sure.
That line was improvised by Beck Bennett
who is hilarious and plays Eric.
This scene here,
we did 70 different versions of this ending.
This was one of the hardest parts
in the movie to nail
from a storytelling perspective,
because if the family's too successful here,
all the drama is taken out of the end of the movie.
And you feel like the movie's over.
The way to make these things stay in the picture
is they have to mean something to the story
of these characters and their relationships.
So one of the big tricks of this whole mall scene
was, how do we make it do work in the story
about the relationship between Katie and her family?
And of course, they come up with a very Mitchells way
- to solve this. - Dude,
you wanna come after my family?
Then I'm gonna take you down!
This joke always gets a big laugh.
He had a pretty solid plan,
except he really underestimated
how large the Furby was.
We got your back, honey.
Literally.
We're not heavy enough!
Mother!
And here the robot that was saved by Linda,
when you think, why would you go and save a robot?
'Cause they might need to save you back.
This effect, I really loved,
that sort of multicolored robot beam
and that little Pal exploding is like a 2D effect,
if you freeze frame that it's really cool.
One of the artists just did
this black-and-white still frame,
and then they put one frame of it in there.
Thanks, guys, nice work.
Thank you, Mother.
We are now your beautiful baby boys.
We put a lot of love into it.
So we hope you guys love watching it
as much as we loved making it.