I went after this project in order to learn what I could from a crew with vastly different experience than mine, and to see how big budget productions utilized Unreal and Maya for hyper real animation.
Barry Jenkins was a revelation to work with. He treated the small story crew like actors in our own right, attentive to character performance and trusting us with everything else. He’s one of the few that pushed for more story even when the studio had no notes.
The five of us in story that were kept on over the last few months were glad to push the studio as hard as we could to expand the narrative. Not all of that extra effort made it to the final cut, but I love that he saw an opportunity where other directors may have been content to rest.