“Another challenge was to have the legs growing, which is like creating geometry from nowhere.” The bed coming alive was treated as a transformation, inspired by a baby giraffe learning how to walk. “On set we had people shaking the bed to make it look like it was growing, and we had to create an animation that fit the same timing and feel like all of the weight shifts were in the right place,” states Fernando Herrera, Animation Supervisor. One iconic moment from the comic strip depicts Little Nemo’s bed growing legs and walking around.
It’s written by David Guion and Michael Handelman ( Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) and produced by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, David Ready and Lawrence. Now streaming on Netflix, Slumberland stars Marlow Barkley, Jason Momoa, Kyle Chandler, and Chris O’Dowd. Assisting Lawrence was frequent collaborator, Visual Effects Supervisor Adrian de Wet, who brought on Framestore to handle the walking bed that becomes a floating vessel, animate the toy Pig that comes to life, and produce a massive flying Canadian goose. Dreams offer an opportunity to experience the impossible, which in turn provided the premise for a weekly comic strip by American cartoonist Winsor McCay called “Little Nemo in Slumberland.” After shortening the title to Slumberland, filmmaker Francis Lawrence ( I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire & Mockingjay) switched the protagonist’s gender from male to female, then sent her on a sleep-induced journey to find a special pearl in the Sea of Nightmares that will enable her to reunite with her father who was lost at sea.
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