Hello, I’m Wes Anderson. I’m the director and co-writer of “Isle of Dogs.” [music] So this is Atari, the mayor’s ward with the hero pack — the pack of dogs who he has befriended. And these men have come to try to take him back to civilization. He’s on a garbage dump island at the moment. There’s a lot to keep track of. There’s action happening up in the sky and over there, where the robot is. And from the beach side, the men and Atari and the dogs here. When you’re doing an animated movie, you work from an animatic. You do a storyboard version of the movie, and you develop it that way. You make the movie in sketch form, but with sound and movement. In a scene like this, even if I was trying to do it in a live action movie, I would work the same way. I’ll just tell a bit about the different devices and methods we used to animate all this stuff. The landscape, we wanted this dark area where this is happening and this whole hill is made of like, miniature cathode ray tubes. The water is all clingfilm, and what they call in England, Saran wrap — what I grew up saying. And it’s just animated to move like water. The smoke and when they fight, these clouds that happen, are all done with just cotton wool. And also, the music became a big part of this scene. We have a score by Alexandre Desplat. It’s very heavy on percussion and saxophones, and it became a big part of what the scene became. We also, throughout the movie, we have different things that are happening on TV screens or projected. Those, we’ve all done in hand-drawn animation so the movie’s a mixture of stop motion, three-dimensional photographed objects — puppets — and 2D hand-drawn animation, for those parts of the story. It takes a significant focus, for me, to make it clear, how everything is working together spatially so you can follow the action clearly. Now here, we go into split screen, and it’s a very good technique, especially when you have a scene with a lot of visual information that needs to be communicated and you need to keep the pace. [explosion]