Consider Disney, Pixar, and all the other most popular animated features of the past two decades. On average, producing one second of a “Frozen” or a “Toy Story 3” or an “Ice Age” cost almost $25,000.

When you’re a trio of superpowered kindergarteners tasked with saving the world on a weekly basis, you’ve got to use every tool in the old toybox. Thankfully for an animated world constantly in peril, ...