Kirby (film)/Credits

Here are the credits for the 2018 Illumination film Kirby.

Opening credits
Universal Pictures presents

a Illumination production

in association with Warpstar, Inc.

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 and 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

Sequence Director Galen Tan Chu

Associate Producers Anthony Nisi Denise L. Rottina

Casting by Christian Kaplan, CSA

Makiko Ohmoto

Antonio Banderas

Ben Mendelsohn

Brian Dobson

Production Manager Sean M. Murphy

Visual Effects Supervisor Roberto Calvo

Head of Story John Hurst

Supervising Animators James Bresnahan Scott Carroll Melvin Tsing Chern Tan

Cinematographer Renato Falcão

Head of Camera & Staging Robert Cardone

Lighting Supervisor Jeeyun Sung Chisholm

Technical Supervision
Production Pipeline Christopher F. Moose

Imaging Andrew Beddini

Previs Supervisor Bryan Useo

Modeling & Fur Supervisor David Mei

Rigging Supervisor Justin Leach

Character Development Supervisor Sabine Heller

Character Simulation Supervisor Keith Stichweh

Materials Supervisor Brian Hill

Assembly Supervisor Gareth Porter

Effects Supervisor Elvira Pinkhas

Stereoscopic Supervisor Daniel Abramovich

Rendering Supervisor Michael Kingsley

Head of Production Technology Mark Orser McGuire

Research and Development Director Carl Ludwig

Chief Scientist Eugene Troubetzkoy

Production Supervisors
Story Erik Pope

Script Cindy Slattery

Editorial Chris Kuwata

Character Group Keith Maloney

Previs/Camera & Staging Jason Fricchione

Animation Dana Bennett Cooney

Sets Joshua Spencer

Finishing Pipeline Jason Fricchione Jacqueline Jones Gladis

Second part of the credits
====Cast (In Order of Appearance) ====

Additional Voices

Isabella Acres

Steve Apostolina

Robin Atkin

Maggie Baird

Ryan Bartley

David Berón

Daniel Booko

Jen Cain

Vic Chao

David Chen

Vicki Davis

Karen Disher

Jason Fricchione

Johnny Gidcomb

Danielle Hartnett

Hideo Kimura

Jim Lau

Ava Mae Leslie

Susan Leslie

Terence Mathews

Matt Nolan

Arthur Ortiz

Ashley Peldon

Chrystee Pharris

Moira Quirk

Michelle Ruff

Erica Schroeder

Ethan Simono

Shane Sweet

Vanessa Waters

Kerry Williams

Matthew Wolf

Dave Zyler

Sound Designers

Randy Thom

Jeremy Bowker

Re-Recording Mixers

Lora Hirschberg

Randy Thom

Creative Consultant

Masahiro Sakurai

Story
Story Artists

Lubomir Arsov

Jeff Call

Jony Chandra

Eric Elrod

Ran Jing

Piet Kroon

Heather Larkin

Warren Leonhardt

Donnie Long

Charlie Parisi

Rodrigo Perez-Castro

Troy Quane

Chris Siemasko

Moroni

Additional Story Artists

Marlon Bell

Jason Boose

Seth Boyden

Adam Cootes

Bryan Cox

Jonathan Feria-Moreno

William H. Frake III

Rémi Godin

John Cody Kim

Yon Hui Lee

Sarah Mercey

Jiin Park

Lyndon Ruddy

Michael Smukavic

Adam Van Wyk

Design
Associate Production Manager

Lorry Ann Shea

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

Previsualization • Camera & Staging
Sr. Camera & Staging Technical Lead

Karyn V.B. Monschein

Sr. Camera & Staging Artists

David Figliola

Bill Hodman

Ken Lee

Alex Li

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 Leads

Cleveland Hibbert

Alexander Levenson

Modelers

Sabina Saurez Basanta

Krzysztof Fus

Jonathan Lin

Dinis "Dennis" Morais

Maria Cecilia Puglesi

Andre Rodriguez Sr.

Clara Prado Vasquez

Motoko Wada

Rigging
Associate Production Manager

Christine Holmes

Lead Character Technical Director

Todd E.J. Hill

Character Leads

Mark Edwards

Stephen Gressak

Lead Environmental Technical Director

Jane Marie Chatot

Sr. Character Technical Directors

Ignacio Barrios

Stephen Gressak

Joe Kwong

Daniel Lima

Scotty Sharp

Ferris Webby

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

Materials
Associate Production Manager

Kristina Hall

Lead Materials Technical Directors

Diana Diriwaechter

Josh Smeltzer

Nikki Tomaino

Materials Technical Directors

Heather M. Brown

Svetla Gressak

Brent Le Blanc

Lian Liu

Siran Liu

Raphael Tavares

Alexander Tyemirov

Fur and Procedural Geometry
Associate Production Manager

Kyle Lawson

Lead Fur Technical Director

Aamir Tarin

Fur Technical Lead

Mark Bajuk

Character Simulation and Crowds
Associate Production Manager

Kyle Milardo

Lead Character Simulation Technical Directors

Haven Gordon Cousins

Christopher Lawrence

Sr. Character Simulation Technical Directors

Yaron Canetti

Scott Edelman

Allan Kadkoy

Misha Koplan

Dylan C. Maxwell

Juan Carlos Olmos Guerra

Character Simulation Technical Directors

Svetla Cavaleri

Jorge Cereijo-Perez

Kevin Edzenga

Jay Gambell

Thomas Helman

Joe Hughes

Hao Luo

Mikki Rose

Danny Speck

Alena Volarevic

Lead Crowds Technical Director

Mark Adams

Crowds Technical Directors

Svetla Cavaleri

Cole Clark

Kevin Edzenga

Erin J. Elliott

Jack Geckler

Morgan Griffiths

Animation
Associate Production Manager

Angel G. Salinas

Lead Animators

Joseph Antonuccio

Matthew Doble

Jeremy Lazare

Lluís Llobera

Raymond Ross Jr.

Drew Winey

Animation Technical Lead

Matthew D. Simmons

Senior Animators

Patrick Giusiano

Hector Godoy Garcia

Louis Jones

Jin Kum

Scott Lemmer

Yueh Chih "Eric" Lin

Matthew Munn

Mika Ripatti

Thom Roberts

Derek Rozmes

Pedro Miguel "Qcho" Sanz Garcia

Stewart J. Shaw

Garrett Shikuma

Graham Silva

Jackie Tarascio

Steve Vanseth

Animators

Tasha Adkins

Theresa Adolph

Eric David Anderson

Pako Bagur Gomila

Michael Berardini

Brock Boyts

Tab Burton

Bertrand Chung

AJ Conrad

Andy Cox

Stephen Dahler

Beth David

Pete Devlin

Carolyn Ee-Kaiser

Todd Elliott

Scott Farrell

Richard A. Fournier

Tom Grevera

Matthew Hasselmann

Jason Ho

Ken Huling

James Young Jackson

Ken Kaiser

Tyler Kakac

Lisa Allen Keane

Brandon Kern

James Lee Kim

Chip Lotierzo

Wee Brian McGrath

Cristin McKee

Scott McWhinnie

Joseph E. Meredith

Jess Morris

Louaye Moulayess

Mir Ural Noorata

Stephen Orsini

Elena Ortego

Emanuele Pavarotti

David S. Peng

Eric Prah

Amila Puhala

Patrik Puhala

Ricky Renna

Michael Philip Richard

Mike William Safianoff

Julen Santiago

Dan Segarra

Jonah Sidhom

Christopher Silva

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

Alex Angelis

David Badgerow

Jessica Bartoshewski

Anthony Brewster

Suk Bong Sean Byun

Eric De Carolis

Youri Dekker

Ares Deveaux

Paul Downs

Morten Enevoldsen

Jeff Gabor

Seth Hippen

Mitchell Jao

Jason Keane

Roman Kobryn

Jason Martinsen

Joshua Melnik

Mikee Sevilla

Alex Ferreira Simoes

Shay Stone

Wes Storhoff

Veara Suon

Cesar Tafoya

Maya Tanaka

Billy Ward

Garrett Wegner

Mike Wilson

Technical Animators

John Paul Levin

Miko W. Mai

Michael Petro

Andy Seredy

Aleksey Sukhovarov

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

Aimee Johnson

Joey Kowalewicz

Christopher Rydalch

Douglas Seiden

Nathaniel Sims

Lighting and Compositing
Associate Production Managers

Heather Ellis

Sean O'Loughlin

Lighting Leads

Lynn Karabaich Bacino

Angel Camacho-Torres

Eldar Cholich

Rosalinda Malibiran Erb

Youngwoong Jang

Jina Kang

Adam King

Dan O'Brien

Haji Uesato

Technical Lighting Lead

Jacob Richards

Sr. Lighting Technical Directors

Harold Fraga

P. Jasmine Katatikarn

Ai Saimoto King

Anthony Ragusa

Michael Tanzillo

Christos Tzeremos

Sergei Anatolivich Volkov

Jay Jungmu You

Lighting Technical Directors

Will Atkin

Charlotte Song Yi Bae

YuFan Linda Chang

Justine Codron Moulayess

Mohamed Elsinbawy

Jason Emmendorfer

Francesco Giroldini

Matt C. Hornback

Ryan Lang

Siran Liu

Jacob Mann

Yuko Okumura

Hannah Roman

Richard Sandoval

Jon Schroth

Heekyung Shin

Wonchan Song

Compositing Lead

Ari Rubenstein

Lead Matte Painter

Justin Gladis

Compositors

Kenneth Bell

Sean Falcon

Pavel Hristov

Zoe Peck-Eyler

Kevin Pierce

Alan Precourt

Lori Williams

Additional Compositors

Jason Cutler

Brian R. Handler

Brian Magarian

Phillip Massimino

Tomer Rousso

Stereoscopic
Associate Production Manager

Gina Grasso

Stereoscopic Leads

Brian Cooper

Jonathan King

Technical Stereoscopic Lead

Elvis Au

Production Engineering
Principal Engineer

Oliver Staeubli

Production Engineers

Ryan Bland

Jennifer Brola

Lih Chang

Marley Gilb

Rebecca Hallac

Chethna Kabeerdoss

Ronald S. Klasky

Pranay Patel

Tracy Priest

Danny Rerucha

Andrew "Wookz" Schott

Michael Toriello

Jayme Wilkinson

Joseph Yoo

Tommy Zhu

Software Development
Manager of Research and Development

Maurice van Swaaij

Sr. Research Associates

Justin Bisceglio

Adam Burr

Richard Hadsell

Joe Higham

Trevor G. Robinson

Michael K. Reed

Nathan Zeichner

Research Associates

David Gatenby

Daniel McCann

Pilar Molina Lopez

Sean McDuffee

Eszter Offertaler

Systems
Head of Systems

Ed Smith

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

Chief Operating Officer Brian Keane

Acorn Academy Interns

Angela Arzumanyan

Jordan Barg

Danny Barnhart

Daniel Ceballos

Michael Chen

Anushka Deedwania

Valerie Kao

Susie Kim

Grace Kumagai

Crystal Kung

Ann Lee

John Noonan

Denian Ouyang

Daniel Park

Liukaidi Lucas Peng

Sudha Manigundam Raghavan

Barry Strum

Emily H. Vo

Di Xiao

Lin Zhang

Promotional Content
Production Supervisor

Vandana Pulijaal

Custom Animation Director

Jeff Gabor

Custom Animation Editor

Tim Nordquist

Associate Production Manager

Sumire Takamatsu

Digital Artists

Rimma Aranovich

Jennifer Kagel

Dan Seddon

Kevin Yang

Post Production
Post Production Sound Services by

Skywalker Sound

a Lucasfilm Ltd. Company

Marin County, California

Digital Intermediate by

EFILM

Songs
"Star Warrior"

Written by Charli XCX

Performed by Charli XCX

Produced by John Paesano

Courtesy of Atlantic Records under license

from Warner Music Group

More to be added

Soundtrack on



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 Special Thanks to

Nick Bruno

Tatsumi Kimishima

Shigeru Miyamoto

Rendered with CGIStudio™

Copyright © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Warpstar, Inc.

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.

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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.