Why animating Rick and Morty is so challenging

Vulture

“If you work on a fire-rescue show, you’ve got fire and water and smoke to deal with,” says Nathan Litz, the Adult Swim comedy's animation director. “On Rick and Morty, you’ve got fire, water, smoke, lasers, ship trails, explosions, everything you can possibly think of. The overall scope of things is what makes it the challenge that it is.” He adds: "I can’t even think of a direct comparable because every other show is concerned with keeping it as conservative as possible, in terms of character count, locations, and so on. Whereas this show, they love to send someone off to some other universe, and give them three seconds with 15 different scenes, different background angles, different characters. Obviously every different planet and dimension has to be populated by original and interesting characters. Everything’s as lively as possible.”