Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski discuss the acidly wondrous animated feature 'Cryptozoo' a visual feat of fantastical creatures in an alternative reality.
Fantastical life forms, born of ancient folklore, roam the frames of director Dash Shaw’s acidly wondrous animated feature “Cryptozoo.” Winged, fanged, iridescent or humanoid, these entities inhabit every corner of the Earth in the artist’s hand-drawn alternative reality. But they are not immune to mankind’s hunger to posses.
Inspired by the Baku, a dream-eating creature from Japanese legend, Shaw, also a renowned comic book artist, came to the conclusion that cinema, specifically the animation medium, and its dreamlike quality would best suit this idea rather than static pages. From that impulse, the married team based in Richmond, Va.
Jane, given the sheer number of cryptids, how did you go about selecting and creating your versions of them for the film?We specifically chose creatures that exist in mythologies around the world. We did not invent any creatures for the purposes of the film. It was very important for me to look at the earliest possible representations of those creatures that I could find on the internet. Those are so imaginative and so strange and break all the rules.
Did the character of Lauren Gray, the heroine guiding us through this world, emerge from a specific reference?The first idea was the mythological creatures, and then came a network of different people who have a perspective on whether or not the cryptozoo was a good idea. We have Joan, Lauren and a cryptid, Phoebe, and their conversation about the cryptozoo is the center of the movie.
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