An Almost Christmas Story (2024)
In September 2024, it was announced that Disney+ would release An Almost Christmas Story, which would be the third and final holiday short produced by Alfonso Cuarón for the streaming service, after Le pupille (2022) and The Shepherd (2023). It was loosely based on the story of Rocky, an owl who was discovered and rescued from the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in 2020. John C. Reilly, in his role as "The Folk Singer", performs four songs in the short, two of which are original.[1]

David Lowery went to Nicholas Ashe Bateman,[2] founder of Maere Studios[3] to design and make the visual effects of the short. Maere Studios created a complete CG process to emulate different types of animation, including stop motion and miniatures, all told through a world of cardboard.[4][5][6] Disney+ released a behind the scenes video showing part of the visual process.[7]