Biography
Raman Hui Shing-Ngai is a Hong Kong animator and film director. Born on 4 July 1963 in Hong Kong, he graduated with a Higher Diploma in Design from the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1984 and studied computer animation at Sheridan College in Canada. He began his professional career in 1989 as a junior animator at Pacific Data Images in California.
Hui worked at DreamWorks Animation on films including Antz (1998), where he was supervising animator and lead character designer, and Shrek (2001) and Shrek 2 (2004) as supervising animator. He co-directed Shrek the Third (2007) and directed several short films such as Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008), Scared Shrekless (2010) and Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos (2012). He later directed the live-action/CGI hybrid Monster Hunt (2015) and its sequel Monster Hunt 2 (2018), as well as The Tiger's Apprentice (2024).
