Overview

• The featurette reveals “The Tale of the Skull Tree,” a gothic stop-motion fable about a boy who builds a mechanical heart to save himself.
• Burton led an eight-month production that included 15 handcrafted puppets and 10 custom sets for the black-and-white segment.
• He praised the process as “fun and creative” and guided animators to embrace an intentionally imperfect style reminiscent of his early work.
• Co-showrunner Miles Millar described the sequence as a gift that deepens the season’s darker mystery and supernatural themes.
• Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 premiered on August 6 and is streaming now, with Part 2 set to arrive on September 3.