I just loved setting it on something really intimate and small, to capture the intimacy of the story, to contain it and focus on the characters. You also chose to set the story on a minute planet…. So that became the film’s central conceit. I was struggling to breathe because I lost my air. I had to call a friend who is a doctor and ask him: ‘What is going on with me?’ He said: ‘Joe, you are having a panic attack. What were the two or three key decisions in making “Blush”?Īfter I lost Mary Ann, I suddenly couldn’t breathe, it was a scary moment. Variety talked to Mateo before “Blush” screens at the closing ceremony of the Annecy Animation Festival this Saturday June 19. “Blush” is inspired by Mateo’s wife, Mary Ann, who lost an eight-year battle against breast cancer in 2017. and Spain, “Blush” is produced by Heather Schmidt Feng Yanu (“Toy Story,” the “Cars” trilogy), and executive produced by the legendary John Lasseter (“Toy Story,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Cars”) David Ellison and Dana Goldberg. Made by Skydance Animation out of the U.S. “Blush” is 3D but has the quaint, natural pictorial tones of 2D, yoked with Hollywood’s frequent focus on core human relations. At Disney Animation, where he worked for 25 years, rising to head of story on “Big Hero 6,” Mateo started out as a clean-up artist and 2D animator.

“Blush” will be released on Apple TV Plus. Out of it steps a comely female alien, her face a deep pink, as if suffused by a permanent blush. Just as he is running out of oxygen, another ship careens onto the planet.

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