It was pure serendipity that we had that in the works.

We had a unique endowment.

We have to be much more ambitious than our budget."

I said, “This is going to be a show done by creators.”

They know that a sequence they do is going to go through 20 incarnations.

And everybody felt this is being delivered on.

We are working with freedom, so let’s go the extra mile, first time around.

Let’s talk season 2’s story.

[Laughs] I’m working with one of the best producers in animation.

We made the decision based on binge-watching, you know?

I would cancel my flight and stay.

I would take three episodes with me.

They are not a light walk in the park.

[Laughs] They are not a one-action sequence and we go away.

There’s a good [amount] in the Darklands.

She becomes quite a character in the second season.

We resolve a lot more of the backstory of Blinky and AAARRRGGHH!!

!, for example.

And of course, the Mexican dentist comes back.

Very heroic, I would say.

They were missing a hand, a nose… they were really broken.

So I bought some epoxy clay and I repaired them and repainted them in my garage.

It’s AAARRRGGHH!!!

with Toby in his hand, and one of my favorite characters, which is Not Enrique.

The show is unofficially tracking as Netflix’s most-watched kids' series ever.

I did it as a teenager.

That’s how I started.

I started doing clay animation.

Forty minutes or more ofPacific Rimwas basically animation.

I was directing an animated movie within that movie.

And I think it’s not a side interest.

[Laughs] But I’ve done movies that I wholeheartedly always thought they were for young kids.

Not 7 or 8, but certainly 10 or older, likeHellboyorPacific Rim.

I really wanted them to have heroes and adventures that were un-ironic, not post-modern, and heartfelt.

I think in many ways, the Charlie Hunnam character inPacific Rimis a little bit like Jim.

He’s not a complicated guy.

They don’t need to be complicated by post-modern winking or ironic satiric logic.

They are really earnest and heartfelt.

I would never dream of that.

And I want to finish or continue other projects that are of a completely different nature.

The thing is, I am not a brand.

I am an acquired taste.

Trollhuntersseason 1 is currently available to stream on Netflix.