Kirby (film)/Credits

Here are the credits for the 2018 Fox/Blue Sky film Kirby.

Opening credits
Twentieth Century Fox Animation presents

a Blue Sky Studios production

in association with Nintendo

KIRBY

First part of the credits
Directed by Karen Disher

Produced by Lori Forte, p.g.a. John C. Donkin, p.g.a. Shinya Kumazaki

Executive Producers Chris Wedge Carlos Saldanha Masahiro Sakurai

Screenplay by Brad Copeland Sōji Yoshikawa

Based on the video game series by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory, Inc.

Music by John Paesano

Production Designer Nash Dunnigan

Edited by Erin Crackel

Casting by Christian Kaplan, CSA

Makiko Ohmoto

Antonio Banderas

Ben Mendelsohn

Brian Dobson

Production Manager Anthony Nisi

Visual Effects Supervisor Kirk Garfield

Head of Story Eric Elrod

Supervising Animators James Bresnahan Galen Tan Chu

Modeling Supervisor David Mei

Rigging Supervisor Justin Leach

Materials Supervisor Brian Hill

Effects Supervisor Elvira Pinkhas

Lighting Supervisor Jeeyun Sung Chisholm

Chief Scientist Eugene Troubetzkoy

More to be added

Cast
To be added

Story
Story Artists

Lubomir Arsov

Jeff Call

Jony Chandra

John Hurst

Ran Jing

Piet Kroon

Heather Larkin

Warren Leonhardt

Donnie Long

Moroni

Charlie Parisi

Chris Siemasko

Additional Story Artists

Marlon Bell

Jason Boose

Seth Boyden

Adam Cootes

Bryan Cox

William H. Frake III

Rémi Godin

John Cody Kim

Yon Hui Lee

Sarah Mercey

Jiin Park

Troy Quane

Lyndon Ruddy

Michael Smukavic

Adam Van Wyk

Design
Associate Production Manager

Angela Calimag Macias

Lead Character Designer

Sang Jun Lee

Lead Set Designer

Arden Chan

Lead Color Designer

Ron DeFelice

Set Design

Tyler Carter

Greg Couch

Andrew Hickson

Tom Humber

Sandeep Menon

Jon Townley Kevin Yang

Visual Development

Peter Chan

Nathan Fowkes

Dan Seddon

Willie Real

Camera & Staging
Sr. Camera & Staging Technical Lead

Karyn V.B. Monschein

Sr. Camera & Staging Artists

David Figliola

Bill Hodman

Ken Lee

Alex Li

Bruno Simões

Kevin Thomason

Goo-Shun Wang

Camera & Staging Artists

Cortney Armitage

Daniel W. Barlow

Bryan Graves

Kevin Higuera

Gregory Hulet

Harold G. Kraut

Benjamin C. Price

Ty Primosch

Modeling
Associate Production Manager

Mark Jacyszyn

Character Modeling Lead

Shaun Cusick

Environmental Modeling Lead

Alexander Levenson

Modelers

Sabina Saurez Basanta

Krzysztof Fus

Dinis "Dennis" Morais

Tiffany Ribera-McKay

Andre Rodriguez Sr.

Clara Prado Vasquez

Motoko Wada

Rigging
Associate Production Manager

Christine E. Holmes

Lead Character Technical Director

Todd E.J. Hill

Character Leads

Mark Edwards

Stephen Gressak

Lead Environmental Technical Director

Jane Marie Chatot

Character Technical Directors

Brian Anderson

Ozgur Aydogdu

Joshua Coté

Ian Etra

James Gu

Christian Haniszewski

Christopher Hill

Yu-Li Liao

Juan Diego Lugo-Ruiz

Chris Pagoria

Ferris Webby

Materials
Associate Production Manager

Kristina Hall

Lead Materials Technical Directors

Diana Diriwaechter

Josh Smeltzer

Nikki Tomaino

Materials Technical Directors

Heather M. Brown

Brent Le Blanc

Svetla Gressak

Lian Liu

Siran Liu

Raphael Tavares

Fur and Procedural Geometry
Associate Production Manager

Lorry Ann Shea

Lead Fur Technical Director

Aamir Tarin

Fur Technical Lead

Mark Bajuk

Character Simulation and Crowds
To be added

Assembly
To be added

Animation
Associate Production Manager

Angel G. Salinas

Lead Animators

BJ Crawford

Matthew Doble

Raymond Ross

Drew Winey

Animation Technical Lead

Matthew D. Simmons

Senior Animators

Hector Godoy Garcia

Pedro "Qcho" Miguel Sanz Garcia

Jin Kum

Jeremy Lazare

Scott Lemmer

Yueh Chih "Eric" Lin

Matthew J. Munn

Mika Ripatti

Thom Roberts

Derek Rozmes

Garrett Shikuma

Graham Silva

Jackie Tarascio

Steve Vanseth

Animators

Theresa Adolph

Eric David Anderson

Michael Berardini

Brock Boyts

Tab Burton

Bertrand Chung

AJ Conrad

Andy Cox

Stephen Dahler

Pete Devlin

Carolyn Ee-Kaiser

Todd Elliott

Scott Farrell

Ed Fornoles

Richard A. Fournier

Patrick Giusiano

Pako Bagur Gomila

Tom Grevera

Matt Hasselmann

Seth Hippen

Jason Ho

Ken Hurling

James Jackson

Louis Jones

Ken Kaiser

Tyler Kakac

Jason Keane

Brandon Kern

James Lee Kim

Wee Brian McGrath

Cristin McKee

Scott McWhinnie

Jess Morris

Louaye Moulayess

Mir Ural Noorata

Stephen Orsini

Elena Ortego

Emanuele Pavarotti

David S. Peng

Eric Prah

Ricky Renna

Michael Richard

Mike Safianoff

Julen Santiago

Dan Segarra

Jonah Sidhom

Christopher Silva

Josh Slice

Ron Smith

Alexander Snow

Roy Stein

Adam Strick

Timothy Suarez

Kevin Temmer

Dave Vasquez

Malerie Walters

Justin Weg

Chris Williams

Trevor Young

David Zach

Additional Animators

Lisa Allen

Alex Angelis

David Badgerow

Jessica Bartoshewski

Anthony Brewster

Suk Bong Sean Byun

Eric De Carolis

Beth David

Youri Dekker

Ares Deveaux

Paul Downs

Morten Enevoldsen

Jeff Gabor

Mitchell Jao

Roman Kobryn

Chip Lotierzo

Joshua Melnik

Patrik Puhala

Mikee Sevilla

Alex Ferreira Simoes

Cesar Tafoya

Maya Tanaka

Garrett Wegner

Mike Wilson

Technical Animators

Kristina Alfonsi

John Paul Levin

Miko W. Mai

Michael Petro

Andy Seredy

Teresa Nord Storhoff

Nadya Sugiarto

Aleksey Sukhovarov

Ryan Zale

Effects
Associate Production Manager

Hae-Sook Song

Lead Effects Technical Directors

Alen Lai

David Quirus

Effects Technical Directors

Jon Barry

Chris Chapman

Ravindra Dwivedi

Gregory Ecker

Alex Frenklakh

Jaime German

Aimee Johnson

Christopher Rydalch

Douglas Seiden

Lighting and Compositing
Associate Production Manager

Heather Ellis

Lighting Leads

Lynn Bacino

Eldar Cholich

Rosalinda Malibiran Erb

Youngwoong Jang

Jina Kang

Adam King

Dan O'Brien

Michael Tanzillo

Angel Torres

Haji Uesato

Technical Lighting Lead

Jacob Richards

Sr. Lighting Technical Directors

Harold Fraga

P. Jasmine Katatikarn

Anthony Ragusa

Christos Tzeremos

Sergei Volkov

Jay Jungmu You

Lighting Technical Directors

Will Atkin

YuFan Linda Chang

Jason Emmendorfer

Francesco Giroldini

Matt C. Hornback

Ai Saimoto King

Ryan Lang

Siran Liu

Jacob Mann

Justine Codron Moulayess

Yuko Okumura

Hannah Roman

Jon Schroth

Heekyung Shin

Mohamed Sinbawy

Won Chan Song

More to come

Stereoscopic
To be added

Render and Resource Management
To be added

Production Engineering
To be added

Software Development
To be added

Systems
To be added

Production
To be added

Blue Sky Studios
Co-Presidents of Studio Robert L. Baird Andrea M. Miloro

Chief Operating Officer Brian A. Keane

Story Trainees

Sebastien Duclos

Mark Galez

Megan Lawton

John Jackson

Brian Vincent Rhodes

Katherine le Vries

Melody Wang

Acorn Academy Interns

Angela Arzumanyan

Jordan Barg

Esteban Bravo

Daniel Ceballos

Olivia Coucci

Sonali Dutta

Valerie Kao

Joshua Nadel

Barry Strum

Emma Wolfe

Di Xiao

Chen Zhang

Promotional Content
To be added

Post Production
To be added

Music
More to be added

Songs
To be added

Blue Sky Babies
To be added

Final part of the credits
Special Thanks to the State of Connecticut Office of

Film, Television, and Digital Media

The Producers Wish to Thank the Families of the Crew

for Their Support in Making This Production Possible.

The Producers Wish to Give a Special Thanks to

Shigeru Miyamoto

Rendered with

CGIStudio™



Copyright © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Nintendo Co., Ltd.

The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to

actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or films is purely coincidental.

Ownership of this motion picture is protected by copyright and other applicable laws,

and any unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition of this

motion picture could result in criminal prosecution as well as civil liability.

The making and authorized distribution of this film

supported over 12,000 jobs and involved over

one million work hours.