We could have gone maybe with crazier graphic visuals and played with shapes even more

 We could have gone maybe with crazier graphic visuals and played with shapes even more

 but we felt there hasn’t been something that looks like this, that’s almost a Disney movie that’s not Disney or a Pixar movie that’s not Pixar,” Harpin explains. “We don’t have a lot of humans in our show, so it’s almost like a statement, even though we’re not spelling it out. We need you to be able to empathize with these characters. We need you to feel their emotions, see their eyes. So with the human designs, our emphasis was more on: are you going to relate to them? Are you going to feel what they’re feeling?”

From left: Rob Riggle as Glorlox and Laz Alonso as Sabo Brok in ‘My Dad the Bounty Hunter.’ Courtesy of Netflix

“I was very specific and worked really closely with Yuhki, who has been so good with details. I supplied a lot of different references of what I was looking for. And Yuki got it. He understood and would do draw overs and paintings,” Downing Jr. Added of Demers, who had worked with him on previous projects. “Just taking a little bit of extra time gets you so much.”

“He’s coming from Spider-Verse, too, so this is not his first rodeo,” Harpin continued. “I think there was one point where Taye Diggs was his muse. He had a chart of Taye Diggs in all different kinds of lighting to get the lighting on the characters’ skin and the specularity right.”