I understood how to direct animation too because there were some sequences in Jungle Book that didn’t have Mowgli in them.
I was comfortable directing the animators and then I said, ‘Well what if you just pulled the one human out of Jungle Book, how would you do that?’
I knew – I kind of understood how to make animals act and talk through animation.
I knew that with the tools that we had and what the technology had to offer and the team that had done such a great job on Jungle Book that there was an opportunity here to show the naturalism of that world.