“Dear Upstairs Neighbors” (BTS)

I've been working animated films like Pixar's Inside Out 2 for the last 8 years. My name is Connie Hu and I'm the director for The Ox Neighbors. For this film, the creative challenge was to bridge the gap between art and technology.For the visuals, we really wanted to bring in abstract textures and styles. My father is an artist and his painting inspired aesthetics we captured on screen. But hand painting 7,000 framed in such a complex style wasn't feasible.We had to scale the process without losing that hu ...