360 Google Spotlight Story: Pearl

2017 EMMY® AWARD-WINNER for OUTSTANDING INNOVATION IN INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING

Set inside their home, a beloved hatchback, the 2017 OSCAR NOMINATED for BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM “Pearl” follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. It’s a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love. And finding grace in the unlikeliest of places.

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2017 ANNIE AWARD WINNER for “Outstanding Achievement in Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production”, “Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production” and “Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production”
2017 UB IWERKS AWARD for TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENT IN THE ART OF ANIMATION

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Credits
Directed by
Patrick Osborne

Executive Producers
Karen Dufilho
Regina Dugan
Rachid El Guerrab

Producer
David Eisenmann

Technical Art Lead
Cassidy Curtis

Production Designer
Tuna Bora

Music and Sound
Pollen Music Group

Creative Director
Jan Pinkava

Creative Director, Music and Sound
Scot Stafford

“No Wrong Way Home”
Performed By
Nicki Bluhm
Kelly Stoltz

Music by
Alexis Harte
JJ Wiesler

Lyrics by
Alexis Harte

Music Produced By
Scot Stafford
JJ Wiesler

Horn Arrangements
Dave Lebolt

Re-recording Mixer
Marti D. Humphrey

Lead Sound Design
Jamey Scott

Cast
Dad
Kelley Stoltz

Sara
Nicki Bluhm

Additional Voices
Emma Grace Eisenmann
Emerson Rose Orr
Elizabeth Scott
Jamey Scott
Silver Wiesler

Evil Eye Pictures
Executive Producer: Dan Rosen; Visual FX Lead: Matt McDonald; Production Manager: Courtney Lockwood; Technical Art Lead: Anthony Enos; Lead Animator: Sean Mahoney; Production Assistant: Haley Friel; Character Design: Oren Haskins, Meg Park; Lead Animator: Sean Mahoney; Set Design: Fiona Herse Woo, Sunmin Inn, Aymeric Kevin, Willie Real, Kevin Roulland, John Nevarez; Animators: Chris Bancroft, Ian Brauner, Jessica Chan, Thierry DiDonna, Rachel Fite, Ken Fountain; Marlon Nowe; Additional Animation: Scott Kravitz; Lighting Artists: David Aughenbaugh, Jennifer King, Chris Lexington, Amy Tucker; Technical Artists: Brandon Blizard, Jun Nagaoka; Character Rigging: Tim Coleman; Systems Engineer: Kevin Clarke;

Baraboom Studios
Character Lead: Pepe Valencia; Modeling: Ramiro Garcia: Jaime Maestro Selles: Victor Vinyals; Surfacing: Yonathan Moreda: Juan Segura

Steelwool Games
Previsualization Lead: Andrew Dayton, Joshua Qualtieri; Technical Artist: Phillip Shaw

Google Spotlight Stories
Software Lead: James Ritts; Engine Lead: James Beattie; Tools Lead: Brendan Duncan; Support Engineer: Josiah Larson; Engineering Manager: Brian Clark; Program Manager: Ellen Yang; Production Assistant: Sara Diamond; Technical Artists: Brian Collins, Ryan Enslow, Derrick Lau, Matthew Oursbourn, Luca Prasso, Kye Wan Sung; Software Engineers: Darren Austin, Andrea Hemphill, Tim Leahy, Guruji Panda, Jamieson Pryor; Support Engineers, DigitalFish: Ken Brain, Mark Decker, Adam Wagner; Graphics Engineers: Jeremy Chernobieff, Daniel Jeppsson, Houman Meshkin, Timothy Richards, Owens Rodriguez; Tools Engineers: Morgwn McCarty, Eric Mueller, Ciaran Wills; Compositing: Bryan Woods; QA Lead Test Engineer: Ravikumar Aluru; QA Engineers: Jose Camba, Zhichao Ren; Editoral: Jeremy Ambers; Audio Software Engineer: Wayne Jackson

Google ATAP
Deputy Director: Dan Kaufman; Director, Strategy and Partnerships: Cameron Walker; Financial Analyst: Jonathan Bradley; Chief of Staff: Rachel Lillestolen; Program Administration: Matthew Yonaki; Corporate Council: Tom Lue, Zachary Patton; Marketing: Jessica Beavers; Communications Managers: Victoria Cassady; Social Media Manager: Jaime Schember; Public Relations: the pr kitchen: Fumi Kitahara Otto