It’s been a wild ride for Tim Miller, the creator-director-executive producer and writer of Netflix’s animation hit series “Love, Death & Robots.”

Miller, 60, is best known as the director who revived “Deadpool.” But for animation fans, his three Emmys for “LD&R” as Outstanding Short Form Animated Program are proof that he’s a master at the height of his powers.

“LD&R” was conceived by Miller and David Fincher (“Fight Club,” “Gone Girl”) six years ago. With a desperate, last resort offer.

In a post screening discussion at Netflix’s Paris theater in Manhattan, he said of the raunchy, racy, ambitious series, “I felt so grateful just to get one season. Fincher made this deal with Netflix of, ‘Don’t pay us for Season 1 — we’ll do it for free. If it bombs and you don’t want to do a Season 2, we get it back.’

“So we were that unsure of ourselves. Not,” Miller clarified, “that we lack confidence but it’s just that nobody wanted this (expletive) thing.

“We took like, a bazillion meetings and Hollywood is like, ‘So an adult anthology, animated. Hmm, that’s really worked in the past.”

It was the past, specifically the 1981 animated “Heavy Metal” movie, an adult animated science fantasy anthology film, inspired by the Heavy Metal comic, that inspired “LD&R.”

“It’s no secret that I’m a super comics nerd,” Miller said. “But I didn’t want to do kids stuff. (Not there’s anything wrong with that.) I would go to midnight movies and see ‘Heavy Metal’ or ‘Fritz the Cat’ and hope that maybe someday I could do adult animation.

“I met David who said, ‘Let’s do something together.’ One of which was a new ‘Heavy Metal’ to inspire a new generation, the way it inspired me.

“So we really tried. We (pitched) a $50 million movie — this was 12 years ago, and it was Jim Cameron! Zach Snyder! Guillermo del Toro! Fincher! And we could not (expletive) get anybody. We met with everybody multiple times.

“So when I did ‘Deadpool,’ the week after it came out, Fincher said, ‘Congratulations, (expletive)! We’re going to use your newfound popularity to get this made.’

“We went to Netflix, ‘Because,” he said, “they’ll do it instead of going through the studio again.’

“So we had an ‘awareness meeting’ and showed them the stuff. They look at it — nothing is said. David goes, ‘Okay, that’s it. We’re doing it.’

“I said, ‘Nobody said anything. Nobody said Yes.’ And he goes, ‘Dude, there’s a whole lot of nonverbal communication going on in this room that you’re not part of. Shut up.’”

And that’s how they got to Season 4.

“Love, Death & Robots” Netflix streams Season 4 May 15