 With that in mind, they "tried to do the absolute minimum, which would be required to put it into a movie version".In designing the fantasy creatures found in Terabithia, Csupó wanted to make creatures that were "little more artsy, imaginative, fantastical creatures than the typical rendered characters you see in other movies", and drew inspiration from Terry Gilliam and Ridley Scott.Dima Malanitchev came up with the drawings for the creatures with Csupó's guidance.