Congratulations on announcing the movie, the trailer looks great! Thanks also for all the information about what software you used and how your developers improved Blender. Thanks so much for contributing so much to Blender, as the work you are paying developers for benefits all of us. I’m looking forward to some of your Blender improvements from Next Gen getting into regular Blender one day 
While I’m sure your priority is to develop just the features you need to the standard required, rather than aiming in particular to get their work merged into Blender’s master branch, is there any consideration for getting all these juicy new features merged as you are developing them? Do your developers work fairly closely with the BF developers, or are they mostly in Tangent just making sure features get added so your artists can work more efficiently?
Are you planning another talk for Blender Conference this year? I’m sure we’d all love to here more about Next Gen’s development.