SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Inspiration comes in many forms. For Hector Armienta, it was watching farmworkers last year as they picked crops with minimal protection even though the pandemic was at its ...

The Oscar nominee by former Pixar animator Erick Oh offers a giant pyramid of everyday activities that divide humanity. Erick Oh’s “Opera” is an outlier in the race for Best Animated Short. Inspired ...

For his Oscar-nominated animated short film, Opera, director Erick Oh wanted to create an animation that captured the essence of human history. The looping cycle style of animation was ideal for the ...

Judging from the short animated films nominated for Academy Awards this year, I’d say the field is relatively shallow with one entry truly pushing the boundaries of animated film-making. “Burrow” from ...

Erick Oh’s “Opera” is an outlier in the race for Best Animated Short. Inspired by Bosch, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Renaissance fresco mural paintings, it consists of a giant pyramid with cyclical ...