When it came to creating the colorful, monster-filled world in Dash Shaw’s film “Cryptozoo,” animation director Jane Samborski said that she wanted all team members’ visions to be seen, allowing them to contribute to the film’s zany animation style and unique vision.
“We have a nimbleness because of the size of our team and because of the aesthetic we have chosen that allows us to be so experimental and to just make every single frame of the movie exciting for us,” Samborski said at theStudio, presented by AT&T TV, at the Sundance Film Festival. “We had wonderful actors that when we needed additional material, we were able to go to them.
“That actually felt exhilarating, and it purified the experience of just living in it in my head and using my mouth as the tool,” Bell said. “The voiceover experience is very freeing because you could be anything, and that freedom for an actor, I think, becomes quite unique.”