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The director and producer talk about wrangling multiple software tools and animation techniques along with student schedules in order to finish their short film.

When Dogday, feeling the pangs of loneliness, accidentally creates a new family through the Make-a-Friend machine, he thinks he’s found the happiness he’s been searching for. But not everything is as ...