The office worker Paul is designed to resemble director Leonardo Matsuda. The redhead sunglasses vendor he falls in love with is based on Matsuda's girlfriend.
Played theatrically as well on the blu-ray release of Disney's Vaiana : La Légende du bout du monde (2016).
According to Matsuda, the film was loosely based on biological transparent overlays he read from Encyclopædia Britannica as a child.
This short is an homage to the Disney shorts: Reason and Emotion and Cranium Command.