Us Again is a 2021 American animated short film directed and written by Zach Parrish and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Its score, composed by Pinar Toprak, was written before storyboarding and animation, unlike the typical filmmaking process.

As the people of a vibrant city dance to the beat of the music, the elderly Art stays in his apartment and grumpily watches TV.

They flee to Paradise Pier, and as Art continues to chase the rain clouds, Dot willingly falls behind.

[7] Producer Brad Simonsen was interested in working on the film due to Parrish's point of view.

Disney's Diversity & Inclusion Team worked with them throughout the process to ensure that a character was acting as authentically as possible.

As he was working on these ideas, he remembered seeing the viral video of Keone and Mari Madrid, both choreographers, dancing as an elderly couple in 2016.

[6] Parrish and the Madrids were compelled to discover the film's emotional core after seeing a video of an elderly couple dancing to the 1978 Bob Marley and the Wailers song "Is This Love".

[10] Pinar Toprak composed the soundtrack for the short, which drew inspiration from the 1960s's funk and soul music.

[11][10][12] In contrast to the usual filmmaking process, the score needed to be written before storyboarding and animation to give the choreographers something work with,[6] since the Madrids "[a]re very specific with the music and the sound and the emotion for the time stamps".

Disney's tools mainly allowed the crew to easily adapt a rig to a fresh model and then improve it.

[7] The Madrids used various dance styles, which ranged from "big, athletic, gravity-bending to small, communicative, and gestural to couple-y romantic".

[4] Art and Dot's opposing viewpoints are communicated through their facial expressions, body language, and dancing.

[6] Disney juxtaposed the dreary aesthetic of Art and Dot's small apartment with the colorful look of the New York dance world outside.

As Art and Dot drew closer to the end of the pier and away from the carnival, the crew withdrew the colors.

They utilized the Ferris Wheel's shifting light for the moment when Art realizes his love for Dot, and began to add additional saturation.

Pramit Chatterjee of Mashable gave the short a five out of five rating, praising its direction, choreography and animation.

[19] Samantha Labat of CinemaBlend found the film stunning and said "the animation is so beautiful and real that you forget you're not looking into actual human faces".