Intrigued by the perils of puberty, writer-director Domee Shi put a uniquely whimsical spin on this physiological metamorphosis in her first animated feature, “Turning Red.” “All of a sudden, you wake ...

Shi’s debut animated feature earned her a second Oscar nomination, after her 2018 Pixar short 'Bao.' By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “Four or five years ago, I couldn’t have imagined being here — ...

Pixar had to unlearn some basic animation rules to pull off a more graphic 2D look for a tween and her inner beast, inspired by anime. “I grew up watching anime films as much as Disney and Pixar,” ...

In addition to making us a sobbing mess with their captivating storylines, Pixar Animation Studios has this laser-focused attention to detail with their brilliant animations. The amount of effort that ...

Turning Red (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Domee Shi and starring Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Tristan Allerick Chen, Lori Tann Chinn, Sherry Cola, ...

At this point, the “Pixar movie” stereotype has become a meme: People go into the animation studio’s projects expecting a family-friendly story focused on nonhuman protagonists given surprising depth ...

Domee Shi, the director and co-writer of "Turning Red," talks about the new Disney-Pixar animated film about a girl who turns into a giant red panda when she gets emotional. And, a retrospective of ...

“Turning Red” asserts the value of a metaphor signifying more than one thing. With any story centered on a 13-year-old’s multidirectional hormones in the sweaty grip of puberty, anything less than one ...

Turning Red is Pixar's newest animation, an adorable coming-of-age story that has something for everyone in it. The animated film follows 13-year-old Meilin "Mei" Lee (Rosalie Chiang) as she inherits ...