But there was a cleanup stage in which artists refined the drawings with crisp, bold lines. The initial sketches were very rough, as you can see here. The animators used live-action reference videos of themselves as a guide. The characters were all hand drawn using digital tablets and a program called Harmony by Toon Boom. The end goal was to have both blend together seamlessly and look like they're part of the same world. The next step was layout, where the team designed backgrounds and figured out the placement of the cameras.Īnimating the characters and coloring the backgrounds happened simultaneously. They swapped these out later once the real cast was recorded. Narrator: First, they storyboarded the script and made a cut using temporary voices for the characters. I looked at it as a split, like there's a new way of making animation now. Sergio Pablos: I never looked at 3D as an evolution of 2D. And he thought a nostalgic, 2D animation style like we saw in the '90s Disney films would be a better fit for the story.īut he also wanted to advance the look, so his team at SPA Studios in Madrid added a few new crucial steps to the animation process. Because his story was about the origin of Santa Claus, it appealed to nostalgia. To understand, we have to go back to 2010, long before "Klaus" was nominated for an Academy Award, to when director Sergio Pablos came up with the idea. So, why did it take so many people and so much time? And it was completed under the wire, just one month before it premiered on Netflix. But unlike most animated movies these days, the characters in "Klaus" aren't CGI and can't even be considered 3D.Ībout 300 people, including 40 animators, worked on the movie "Klaus," which took over two years to make. Suddenly the characters looked three-dimensional. It eventually started looking like a pretty impressive 2D film.īut then the animators went one step further to create a film that looked like this. Netflix 's "Klaus" began, it looked something like this. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Director Sergio Pablos explains the process. The animation team at The SPA Studios in Madrid developed new technology that adds details like lighting and texture to the characters that make them appear 3D.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature." Klaus," Netflix's first animated film, is an origin story of Santa Claus.
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