An army of artists teams up in the cloud to animate a powerful anti-war story

In the past two years, the pandemic has changed the way studios and artists work together. But a decade before remote working became common, filmmaker Cinzia Angelini assembled a global team in an independent virtual animation studio to create the 3D-animated short Mila. Angelini and a volunteer crew of 350 artists from 35 countries worked for more than 10 years to fulfil her big vision—without a budget. Unified by production in the cloud, they delivered an award-winning film that tells the moving story of a little girl living through the chaos of war.