‘SuperMansion’ saves the world a frame at a time

evil Uncle Ridan (Taran Killiam). They escape, but six months have passed. And their archenemies, Dr. Devizo (Chris Pine) and his Injustice Club, have replaced the League.

It takes a small army of artisans and craftspeople to do the stop-animation.

In one small studio, a military command center has been built on a table not much larger than a writing desk. The room will be used in only a few scenes, but the detail — from the control panels to the images on the wall — are too detailed to be seen in one viewing. Then the people, places and things that populate the miniature locations all have to be crafted by hand.

“SuperMansion” art director Frank Duran understands that a lot of the details his team puts into each episode will be overlooked. His approach to creating the animation is to concentrate on making the main characters as interesting as possible. The way he looks at it, he said, everything else is filler.

Modern technology has made the stopmotion animation process a little easier, because multiple body parts or props can be created through a 3D printer.

But the rest of the process remains laborintensive as scenes are shot one frame at a time. It takes 12 frames to make one second of the show.

The third season is the most ambitious for Wells and the team. Season 1 had 13 episodes and Season 2 featured 10 episodes and two specials. This season will include 18 episodes and three specials. Production on the third season started in early April 2017.

One of the specials during the third season will be an original holiday production, “A Prayer for Mr. T: The SuperMansion Thanksgiving Special,” set to debut Nov. 15.