It took 2400 teaspoons of lubricant to create the ocean when Max imagines himself on a desert island.
This is the very first animated film to open for the Sundance Film Festival.
Writer and director Adam Elliot clarified that the character of Max was inspired by "a pen-friend in New York who I've been writing to for over twenty years."
All of the water scenes were created with lubricant.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Adam Elliot never met in person. Hoffman recorded everything in between a production of a play he was working on in London and recorded everything through Skype.