Interview: Alberto Mielgo Talks About His Love, Death + Robots Volume 3 Episode 'Jibaro', Creating Short Episodes, And Production Pushbacks
The 11-time Emmy Award-winning series Love, Death + Robots dropped nine new episodes, returning to Netflix on May 20 with a third volume. The animated anthology series welcomes scripts by the acclaimed writers John Scalzi (Stargate Universe), Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en), Philip Gelatt (Love, Death + Robots), and four-time Emmy winner Alberto Mielgo, among others.
For his episode “Jibaro”, Mielgo takes the reins — stepping in as the writer and director. Throughout his career, the director and animator has worked on Corpse Bride, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Tron: Uprising; as well as the LDR Volume 1 episode "The Witness". Game Rant spoke with Mielgo about how his Volume 3 story came together, the show’s short-episode format, and the pushback he received during production.
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The director-writer opened up about how his story came to fruition. He says that he started with the visuals, before crafting the story.
The first thing that came to my mind was the visual of a siren singing. And then, I wanted to create a situation around that. The whole story is about a toxic mother relationship. So, it started with some visuals, and then I started to let it go. I started focusing on something that is more conceptual, rather than just the visuals.
“Jibaro” has many moving parts and comes together like a dark fairytale — intertwining folklore, different cultures, and 3D animation to tell a story about a deaf knight. It packs a punch in just over 15 minutes. When asked about the short length of episode, Mielgo says that the process is “a thing of its own.”
The short format is a thing of its own. You are given 15 minutes to make something that is
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