Villarreal spent over 27 months working on the piece with a small team of sound, animation and editing experts, including editor, producer and Academy of Art University faculty member Alessandro Squitti, and another Academy of Art University Animation graduate and faculty member, Sherrie H. Sinclair, who came to the university after a nine-year career at Disney.
Prior to joining the Academy, Villarreal, who was born and raised in La Plata, Argentina, worked as a traditional animator, character designer, sculptor and visual development artist for films and video games for Walt Disney Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment, Jim Henson Studios, Sega, DigitalDomain and Amazon Studios, among others.