---
name: "Raman Hui"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/raman-hui-shing-ngai"
fi1m_id: "raman-hui-shing-ngai"
imdb_id: "nm0401203"
tmdb_id: 12099
wikidata_id: "Q7288869"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 July 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 54
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T13:45:51.621761+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Raman Hui

## Identity

Raman Hui

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/raman-hui-shing-ngai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** raman-hui-shing-ngai
- **IMDb ID:** nm0401203
- **TMDB ID:** 12099
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7288869
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_Hui, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7288869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401203/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12099

Director. Born 4 July 1963 in Hong Kong, China.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 July 1963, Hong Kong, China
- **Active:** 2007–2015
- **Also known as:** Raman Hui Shing-Ngai, Raman Hui Shing-Ngai  , 許誠毅, Xu Chengyi
- **Average Fi1m score:** 54, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 50 (1), 2010s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_Hui, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7288869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401203/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12099

## 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).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, newyorker.com, polyu.edu.hk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Monster Hunt* (2015), Fi1m 58, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/monster-hunt.md)
- *Shrek the Third* (2007), Fi1m 50, Co-Director — [page](https://film.one/film/shrek-the-third.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Tiger's Apprentice* (2024), as Radio Announcer (voice) · Director
- *Monster Hunt 2* (2018), Director
- *Monster Hunt* (2015), Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/monster-hunt.md)
- *Dragons: Race to the Edge* (2015), series, Animation Director
- *Shrek Stories* (2013), Director
- *Kung Fu Panda:  The Awesome Secrets Collection* (2013), Director
- *Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos* (2012), Director
- *Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular* (2010), Co-Director
- *Scared Shrekless* (2010), Co-Director
- *Merry Madagascar* (2009), Animation
- *Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five* (2008), Director
- *0506HK* (2007), Actor
- *Shrek the Third* (2007), Co-Director — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/shrek-the-third.md)
- *Shrek 2* (2004), Supervising Animator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shrek-2.md)
- *Shrek 3-D* (2004), Animation Supervisor
- *Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas* (2003), as Jin (voice)
- *Shrek* (2001), Supervising Animator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shrek.md)
- *Fat Cat on a Diet* (2000), Director, Animation
- *Antz* (1998), Character Designer, Animation Supervisor
- *The Arrival* (1996), Animation Director
- *Batman Forever* (1995), Animation Supervisor — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/batman-forever.md)
- *Sleepy Guy* (1994), Director, Animation
- *Wings Of The Mind* (1984), Director
- *Butterfly Lovers*, Director

## Gallery

- ![11 July 2019; Raman Hui, Animator, Film director and Member, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on Centre Stage during day three of RISE 2019 at the H](https://film.one/media/person/4156669/gallery-10a04d832f02.jpg) 11 July 2019; Raman Hui, Animator, Film director and Member, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on Centre Stage during day three of RISE 2019 at the H — RISE, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Raman_Hui%2C_RISE_2019_at_the_Hong_Kong_Convention_and_Exhibition_Centre.jpg/1280px-Raman_Hui%2C_RISE_2019_at_the_Hong_Kong_Convention_and_Exhibition_Centre.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Raman Hui](https://film.one/media/person/4156669/gallery-0876555c6aef.jpg) Raman Hui — X, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Raman_Hui_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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