Cartoon Brew Podcast: Behind-The-Scenes Of ‘Scoob!’

Even so, the pair were taken aback by the sheer difficulty of recreating the characters in 3d — not least the Great Dane himself, who goes “immediately off-model, no matter what you do.” As they tell it, their efforts to stay faithful to half a century of Scooby-Doo shows informed everything from the rigging to the camera choices.

Scoob! is packed with references to franchise lore and animation history in general. Fittingly, Cervone and Haller dive deep into their inspirations — from Shere Khan to Ray Harryhausen — as they describe their “very 2d approach” to the film.

Tune in to find out which show influenced them even more than Scooby-Doo, why the film’s viral Tiktok marketing campaign posed a specific challenge, what the future holds for the “Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe,” which Scooby-Doo film “changed everything,” and what Cervone thinks is “the secret of animation.”