Erick Oh talks about his awesome new 8K project, "Opera"

August 21 2020

Korean filmmaker and painter based in California Eric Oh is best known in the animation world for his award-winning short films (Heart, Communicate, How to Eat Your Apple, The Dam Keeper, Gunther) and his work on Pixar films such as Finding Dory, Inside Out, Monsters University e Brave and the Tonko House series Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems. This week he gears up for a big hit when he unveils his latest animated short: a huge and ambitious 8K project titled Opera.

The film will have its world premiere at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and this week in the US at the Animation Block Party in Brooklyn. The nine-minute film, consisting of a day and night cycle that can be played over an infinite cycle, was also selected to appear at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Animafest Zagreb, as well as the Odense International Film Festival, Vladivostok International Film Festival and Anifilm.

Opera it will also appear at several animation festivals this fall and will be the center of a public installation exhibition in Seoul, Korea in early 2021.