KAI Studio is a 100% remote animation studio specialized in digital 2D animation. It was born after part of the team from the short film GIRASOL (2018, with over 40 official selections in festivals) came together post-production to continue creating animated stories.
Tigre is the story of a friend’s grandfather, a refugee from Laos in Thailand. It’s a narrative where the known intertwines with the unknown, full of uncertainty and curiosity, where nothing is everything and everything is nothing, and where appearances deceive.
The world of the short film dives into shadow theaters, spices floating in the air, fighters in their battles, monks singing, and thousands of spirits and demons lurking in the shadows.
We aim to honor not only traditional animation but also the culture that gave rise to this story. The storyboard is the beginning of the visual narrative, where we established the idea of a circular narrative in a world where the mundane and the supernatural coexist. Therefore, we felt it appropriate to use the narrative style of legends and traditional tales to convey to the world that this story will never age.
You can get a glimpse of what TIGRE will be like by watching the teaser we created as a preview of this story [here](https://youtu.be/ZT3c6FxNRs4).