“I began in April 2015 and worked for six months and then briefed Paul in London and he was up and running,” said Stockhausen, who left to work on Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” a very different animated experience. Yet, overall, it was a more desaturated palette than the autumnal lushness of “Fantastic Mr. Everything was built by hand, including dust clouds made of cotton wool (in homage to “Looney Tunes” cartoons) and waves of water derived from sheets of plastic wrap. They created the entire universe with 240 micro sets, from the red lacquered Municipal Dome to the monochromatic science lab to a sake bar with tiny bottles to the ashen ruins of Trash Island with its overhead tram. That was the task for the two production designers: Oscar-winner Adam Stockhausen (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) and Paul Harrod (“Fantastic Mr. The initial challenge was incorporating Kurosawa’s urban ’60s milieu with 19th century, Edo-period woodblock print works from Hiroshige and Hokusai into a cohesive whole. Read More: ‘Isle of Dogs’ Exclusive Photos: Meet the Canine Stars of Wes Anderson’s Newest Stop-Motion Charmer World Building Wes Anderson’s Rarely-Seen Short Films to Screen for One-Night Only in New York and Los Angeles
