Love, Death + Robots' Tim Miller and Jennifer Yuh Nelson talk about expanding the anthology's sci-fi universe and the future of animation.

Gladiatorial combat where naked warriors fight atop dinosaurs, alien octopus invasions, and tyrannical felines are just the tip of the iceberg in the fourth installment of Love, Death + Robots. Netflix's genre-blending animated anthology series adeptly highlights science fiction's versatility with stories that embrace horror, comedy, melodrama, and other label-defying tales. It's a rare example of a project that becomes more confident and ambitious over time.

Love, Death + Robot's executive producer, Tim Miller, and supervising director, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, open up on the animated anthology series' electric fourth season, which science fiction story would be their white whale of adaptations, how David Fincher's ludicrous string puppet music video came together, and which of this volume's segments were supposed to be directed by Zack Snyder.

DEN OF GEEK: How do you figure out the stories that you're going to tell and how do you approach the source material that you adapt? Is it a case of finding source material that you're passionate about from the start or are there stories that are being suggested to you?

JENNIFER YUH NELSON: Well, pretty much all the shorts done in all the seasons have been based on short stories that Tim's read throughout his life. And the reason why they stuck with him is because they're great stories. And so we have hundreds of these stories just piled up. That's sort of the pile that we go through and say, "That's a great one. Let's try that one," and we just curate a gigantic, different list and try to find stories that can live together in a nice sort of album of narratives, tones, and looks.