The short animated film Borrowed Time, made over the course of five years as a side project by two animators at Pixar Animation Studios, has been circulating at film festivals since 2015. But this week it was made publicly available on Vimeo, which marked the first time most of the public could see it. The internet response has been tremendous. Writer-directors Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats say that as artists working on a huge team at a large company, they're used to being out of the public eye, and they've been overwhelmed by the direct, personal positive attention their film has drawn.
Coats was a senior at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts when Hamou-Lhadj arrived as a freshman. "The department is pretty small," Coats says, "so...
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