Current core animation production team (full team credits follow)
Todd Kesterson (photo right side)
Director, script writer, storyboard/animatic artist and character designer
Ron Dias (photo left side)
Color stylist, lead conceptual artist and character designer www.rondias.com
John Pendleton
Lead modeler: characters, vehicles and environments www.pendletonportfolio.com
SUPPORT AND INSPIRATION
Andrew Kesterson
Brendan Kesterson
Suzanne Kesterson
David Lang www.urbanshamanism.com
And many other people who have come in and out my life
CONCEPTUAL ART AND CHARACTER DESIGN
Ron Dias www.rondias.com
Zach Domka
Tamara Hill-Tanquist http://tamaraht.com
ADDITONAL DESIGN INPUT
Jonathon Banks
Christopher Flanagan
Risa Masamura www.media-forge.net:
Logo design
Matt Onheiber www.mjocreations.com
Scott Saunders www.media-forge.net
Matt (Torgie) Torgeson
Joel Weinstein: Middle school mask-making instructor
Elise Collier: Mask maker
Claire Murphy: Mask maker
WEB SITE DESIGN
Brent McDonell
WATERCOLOR TEXTURE PAINTING
Kristin Adams www.kafolio.com
Tamara Hill-Tanquist http://tamaraht.com
Sarah Rice
MODEL TEXTURING AND SHADER DEVELOPMENT
Jonathon Banks
PRIMARY MODELING
John Pendleton www.pendletonportfolio.com
Natural/magical world environments, vehicles, man, woman,
warriors
Jonathon Banks: Industrial environments, children’s village,
mole
ADDITIONAL MODELING
Matt Onheiber www.mjocreations.com:
Boy
Christopher Flanagan: Mole
Scott Saunders: Kangaroo
Timothy Harding: Tree bridge
Matt (Torgie) Torgeson www.surrealize.net:
Tree bridge
Alan Dennis: Nautilus shell
Mike Baird: Warrior clearing tree twisting
Azumi Nishikawa: Childrens' village
CHARACTER RIGGING
Jonathan Wade: Moa and Somatic warrior skeletal construction
Matthew Onheiber: Boy face
Derek Cheung: Kangaroo initial tests
MOTION CAPTURE
Mike Pavol
MOTION CAPTURE DATA PROCESSING
Todd Kesterson
CHARACTER PERFORMANCE
Bryce Bumgarner: Man and mole
Amy Edwards: Kangaroo and elder woman
LC Graff: Boy
Marion Rossi: Motivational speaker, gift giver warrior and acting team coach
DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
Carol Soleau: Man and woman dances
Angela Ajootian: Warrior dance
DANCE PERFORMANCE
Carol Soleau: Elder woman
Shoshannah Richey: Young woman
Jeff Burright: Man
Mary Rohrdanz: Somatic practices warrior
Megin Sabo: Modes of Inquiry warrior
Kindra Wolfe: Natural world warrior
Brendan Anderson: Symbolic language warrior
Joey Johnson: Creative expression and spiritual tradition warriors
Peter Boothe: Ancestral wisdom warrior
Angela Ajootian: Global village warrior
SOUNDSCAPE DESIGN
Mel Stark www.starkstudios.org
MUSIC COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE
Michael Coolen http://oregonstate.edu/cla/music/faculty/coolenm.php
Woman solo and dance with man
Glen Bonnie: Warrior dance
“It’s My Story”
Stephen Cohen http://home.earthlink.net/~threehandstephen
Words, music, guitar and voice
Alan Ames: Lap steel guitar
Bill Chamberlain: Mandolin
Christopher Shotola-Hardt: Bouzouki
Susanne Shotola-Hardt: Accordion
William Thomas: Drums
Story Pouch Actors: Additional voiceovers
DIALOGUE RECORDING
Sam Kincaid
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO FOOTAGE
Chris Miller
Paul Simon
Jade Grimmius
Andrea Compton
DOCUMENTARY AND TRAILER VIDEO EDITING
Chris Miller www.mastermindvideo.com
Bob Simons
LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
Dawn Moyer: Translation team faculty advisor
Kristin Hedges: Translation team scheduling assistant
Xiaomeng (Christina) Zhong: Team lead and Chinese translation (Mandarin)
Christopher Fenot: French, German
Ai Morita: Japanese
Juan Vanegas: Spanish
Tae Hoon Yoo: Korean
Barbara Zennaro: Italian
STORY CONTRIBUTION AND REVIEW (BEYOND DESIGN AND MODELING TEAM)
Deb Sunderland
Anthony (Rick) Miller
Pam Hall
Bonnie Schock
Lisa Wolpe
Abdullah Hamed
PRODUCTION SUPPORT
Joel Thierstein
MISCELANEOUS RESEARCH, CONSULTATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Matt (Torgie) Torgeson: Initial internal production web site build/maintain
Annah James www.annahjames.com: Woman and warrior design consult
David Lang www.urbanshamanism.com: Story geography and warrior design consult
CHLDREN’S BOOK RESEARCH
Connie Burdick
Heidi Weisel
Mary Norman
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON INTERN COORDINATION AND SCHEDULING
Craig Hickman
Kate Wagle
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON MEETING LOCATION SCHEDULING
Bonnie Lawrence
Zara Logue
Pam Wright
RON DIAS SUPPORT CREW
Howard Blair
Judy Marshall
