Berkeley and Yale, and discovered the world of movie making when he was designing the commissary at Culver Studios.
It rekindled his love of storytelling and steered his career path towards live action and animation movies.
Later he joined Sony Pictures Animation to work on Open Season and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Around the same time, he consulted with Mass Animation on "Blazing Samurai", which was released theatrically in 2022 as "Paws Of Fury".
Hsu won the Xeric Grant award twice, first for Poppie's Adventures, and again for 8-9-3, an action-packed graphic novel about the criminal underworld of Japanese Yakuza.