Netflix Plots Interactive Kids’ Special

Netflix is set to launch the new 2D-animated interactive special We Lost Our Human, created by Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt (Pinky Malinky).

The special will enable audiences to choose to experience the story from the perspective of a cat named Pud or a dog named Ham, who wake up to find that their human—and all humans—have disappeared from Earth. The two pets, in hopes of finding their owner, head out into the world for the first time, discovering strange mysteries, meeting bizarre creatures and maybe even saving the universe with the help of the audience.

We Lost Our Human stars Ben Schwartz (Pud), Ayo Edebiri (Ham), Adrienne C. Moore, Lauren Tom, Jon Glaser, Henry Rollins, Lucas Grabeel and Matty Cardarople. Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt serve as creators, executive producers and directors and wrote the screenplay alongside Laura Sreebny and Nick Arciaga.

Asbjoern and Garbutt said: “Creating a huge interactive project has been an exciting challenge and gave us a unique chance to approach Pud and Ham’s story outside of a traditional format. We got to explore their many parallel and interwoven paths, which resulted in our story room becoming a complex web of post-it notes, push pins and string. Quite a dizzying sight for anyone witnessing one of our story pitches!”

Curtis Lelash, director of original animation at Netflix added: “We Lost Our Human combines the very best of animation, comedy and interactivity, expanding the possibilities of how stories are told today. We can’t wait for audiences of all ages to take this hilarious journey with Pud and Ham, because their fate rests in the audiences’ hands…literally.”