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- The Chinese Canadian filmmaker took inspiration from her own life as a child of immigrants when crafting the short, a story Shi first started working on over four years ago. “I was digging through my art folder at work and the earliest sketch I found was dated January 2014,” said Shi.
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Jun 16, 2018 · The Chinese Canadian filmmaker took inspiration from her own life as a child of immigrants when crafting the short, a story Shi first started working on over four years ago. “I was digging...
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Bao is a 2018 American animated short film written and directed by Domee Shi and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is the first Pixar short film to be directed by a female director. [1] It was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival before being released with Incredibles 2 on June 15, 2018.
Apr 23, 2018 · The style of Bao was inspired by 2D Japanese animation, especially the visual styles of My Neighbors the Yamatas and One Piece. Domee “loved how squishy the characters looked and how pushed their expressions were.”
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- Use weekends to work on what interests you the most. When she came up with the concept for Bao, Shi was working at Pixar as a story artist on Inside Out.
- Your writing should be equally strange and specific. While Bao started "as a personal side project I started outside of work," as she was pitching it to various people around Pixar, it came to the attention of Pete Docter, who had acted as a mentor figure to Shi (and who later came on board Bao as an executive producer).
- The simpler the story is, the better. Shi remembered that "I always knew I wanted to do a story about a lonely empty nester fantasy in order to process her real son moving away.
- Know your characters. Research served as a big part of the film. Shi told of how the field trips yielded inspiration for almost everything visual in the film, from the signs on the bus to to the clothes the mother wears.
Jun 15, 2018 · Essentially, Bao is a Chinese retelling of “The Gingerbread Man.” In an interview with Eater, Shi discussed what inspired her to make the short film: “The story was loosely inspired by my...
Apr 20, 2018 · Shi began combining the ingredients for Bao in 2014 as a side project, inspired by classic fairy tales and her own life growing up as an only child. “I wanted to use this dumpling as the vessel...
Jun 20, 2018 · Shi, who joined Pixar as a story intern in 2011 before being hired as a story artist on Inside Out, had worked on Bao for almost two years on her own before bringing on more people.
