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D E PA R T M E N T 31 KEYFRAME do in the series. So he was excited at the opportunity to do that." While the Belcher family doesn't leave their New Jersey seaside commu- nity, thanks to Hickman, Hayes, and the creative team, fans of the series will discover some unique settings in the film. Each of the three children gets a fantasy sequence, and viewers will also delight in Carneyopolis, home to the carnies of Wonder Wharf car- nival. In constructing a secret room in Carneyopolis, the animation team went to town with a style that came to be known as carnival baroque. "It's sort of this cheap, terrifying ver- sion of rococo," says Hickman. "We had a lot of fun with that. We were able to really draw from that so there's a lot of cool design work and a lot of cool color and light work in those spaces." In seeking balance, Hickman says that they didn't want to alter the style so much "that it didn't have that iconic, immediately recognizable quality it has, but we wanted it to see if we could add, for lack of a better term, scope and scale. We wanted to … give it some theatrical cinematic experience. They also wanted to carry a lot of that back to the series, so that was interesting." Does that mean the film will leave a mark on the series? "There's an ice cream machine in the series with teeth marks from an electric shark that was used in the movie. Those teeth marks will stay," says Hickman. "I haven't heard how or why. So, the answer is a big yes." The Bob's Burgers Movie characters look the same as they do in the series, but the overall design benefits from the cinematic scope a movie can provide. SUMMER 2022 31