Raman Hui has dedicated over twenty years of his life to the art of animation. As a director, supervising animator and character designer of animated feature films, he maintains the importance of observing life in all its visual and emotional majesty. For Hui, the aim to imaginatively re-create spontaneity of natural movements is what makes animation such a challenging, but wondrous art form. A painstaking respect for integrity of personality and behavior consistently underscores his talent to conceive universally relevant stories that are populated by casts of charismatic characters.

Hui is a graphic design graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His involvement with animation came through a chance discovery of the medium at the school, and would subsequently lead Hui to garner a Best Animation Award at the 1984 Hong Kong Independent Film Festival. Professionally, Hui began his animation career in Hong Kong at Quantum Studio where he worked as a traditional animator. Later, he moved to Canada to study computer animation at Sheridan College.

Since 1989, Hui has been a major force at PDI/DreamWorks, guiding the animation team from commercials and shorts to feature films. He started at the studio by working on various commercials and award-winning short films, which led to his position as Lead Character Designer/Supervising Animator on PDI/DreamWorks’ first full-length computer-animated feature film, Antz. Hui has also served as Supervising Animator on the Academy Award® winning blockbuster Shrek, the Universal Studios theme park attraction Shrek 4D, and Shrek 2, which would become the highest grossing animated film of all time. For a year he was Director of Animation on DreamWorks Television & NBC’s prime time animated comedy Father of the Pride. He completed his first co-directing debut on Shrek the Third and recently directed the Kung Fu Panda animated short, Secrets of the Furious Five.