Somewhat recently, Vishnu Athreya was thinking about Exquisite Corpse. Athreya is a senior vice president at Warner Bros. Animation, and he was trying to come up with a new idea for an animated project. He wanted to bring in a few great animators and have them each contribute their own short to a larger story without having any idea what the rest of it might look like. In other words, he wanted to make an Exquisite Corpse cartoon.