Maybe not to the extent that Season 4 has been doing, but we’re definitely gonna try. Our main inspiration for lighting was Japanese anime and films from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.

Believe it or not, one of the key examples that I noted to the animation team was a shot from Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke as a primary source of how to make the lighting reflect the character’s surroundings. It was that level of beauty and grandeur that I wanted to achieve and I stressed that a lot to the team.