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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It took four years for the eight-minute short film to be completed, but its impact is emphatic. Having already traveled the world to screen at festivals as far as Texas, Cannes, London and Hiroshima, ...

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 ...

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 ...