SciFi Vision | Interviews | Video Interview: Creators Bob-Waksberg & Purdy Talk Meanings & Animation for Undone Season 2
A big part of that with the show is obviously whether Alma can really travel through time or it’s all in her head. Purdy, who talked about drawing from mental health issues in her own family, talked about getting that representation right. “We never say that Alma is mentally ill; we say that she's having an experience, and it's specific to her,” Purdy told the site. “…I wanted to make sure that it felt specific to her and her character, and this sort of exploring the unseen world and how we kind of interpret mental health and different philosophies and ancient wisdoms and to sort of break open some molds and sort of say maybe all these things are kind of related, or maybe there's a larger picture that we don't understand and that we're only seeing aspects of it and we're making judgments or deciding that things are a certain way because of a certain thing. But actually, even in the mental health field, schizophrenia is an umbrella term, and there are so many aspects of it and experiences within it. There's so much we don't know or understand…We don't have all the answers, but [we’re] using that as a way to ask questions about what's happening to her, what she's going through, what could really be happening, and explor[ing] those possibilities.”
SciFi Vision also talked to the producers about the art in the series and how rotoscoping is used. None of the backgrounds actually exist in real life. “Every single background that you see is a hand painted oil painting that takes four to five days to paint,” pointed out Purdy. “One rotoscoper will spend an entire day on just two seconds of animation. It's incredibly labor intensive and hand crafted, hand painted, hand drawn. It's really quite incredible.”