The most striking thing about Imagi's Chai Wan headquarters is its jovial ambience. The company's young employees can often be seen huddled together, gleefully sharing their views on the merits of the images flashing across their state-of-the-art LCD screens.
Hovering above them are shelves that line the walls with posters of classic manga and anime, while all sorts of pop detritus - fluffy dolls, miniature figures, comic books, even game consoles - compete for space on their desks, allowing just enough room for their computers.
To the uninitiated, it resembles a playground more than a workplace, but the reality couldn't be more different. The light-hearted banter and youthful hyperactivity belie the serious tasks at hand, as Imagi's army of young animators hustle to complete Astro Boy, a feature film remake of Osamu Tezaku's anime classic of the same name, featuring the voices of Hollywood stars such as Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy and Freddie Highmore.
The film will premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October, before going on wide release in the US and Europe.
'I never thought there would be so much freedom working here,' says Vincent Yu Chun-wing, one of 55 animators working on Astro Boy.
'I thought it'd be like just another desk job in an office, but it's not. It's been great fun working with my colleagues here because there's not that much of a hierarchy.