Credits
The NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
in association with
COPPERHEART ANIMATION
and C.O.R.E. DIGITAL PICTURES
presents
the spine
Written and Directed by
CHRIS LANDRETH
Produced by
STEVEN HOBAN
MARCY PAGE
Co-producer
MARK SMITH
Executive Producers
ROBERT MUNROE
DAVID VERRALL
Cast
GORDON PINSENT Dan Rutherford
ALBERTA WATSON Mary Rutherford
PATRICE GOODMAN Angela
ROBERT McCARROL Francis
Original Music Composed & Performed by
KIRK ELLIOTT
Sound Design & Editing by
PIERRE YVES DRAPEAU
NORMAND ROGER
Production Manager
ALEXANDRA GUNTER
CG Supervisors
TODD JAHNKE
JOHN MARIELLA
Producers for C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
LISA BECHARD
JOHN MARIELLA
Production Coordinators
JEREMY MONTGOMERY
MARIE-CHRISTINE NADON
Animation Director
& Seneca College Program Coordinator
SEAN CRAIG
Animators
DIANNA BASSO
KEN COLLINS
MORGAN DE LANGE
ANDREW GREGOIRE
RYAN HARVEY
CHRISTINA KELBERT
RUNDEEP KHAIRA
SCOTT MACNAB
DEREK SUNDERLAND
AUGUSTO QUIJANO VAZQUEZ
LUCAS WRIGHT
Additional Animation
ANGELO LIBUTTI
BIAGIO FIGLIUZZI
Storyboard Artist Layout Artist
BRIAN LEMAY PAUL ARION
Development Consultants
TARA CATES
MARK HAZEN
Editors
YONAH LEWIS
JEREMY MONTGOMERY
Assistant Editors
ADRIAN LAURIE
MARK MASOUMI
Lead Character Modeler / Rigger / TD
LOUIS VOTTERO
Character Modelers / Texture Artists
MAHMOUD RAHNAMA
DAVE BACHELOR
JOSEPH KIM
RICK KOGUCKI
ALAN WILSON
Character Look Dev TDs
HOWARD CASSIDY
KYLE MENZIES
ISRAEL YANG
Additional Character Design
MARK HAZEN
THOMAS HENDRY
PETER MACDONALD
Lead VFX Artist
MAHMOUD RAHNAMA
VFX Artists
TYSON GROTH
CANER SALMANLI
VFX TD
MARK SCHMIDT
Cloth Simulation
YIQUN CHEN
Lead Environment Modeler / Texture Artist
BO MOSLEY
Environment / Asset Modelers & Texture Artists
CHRIS ZAMMIT
CHRIS BOBINSKI
CARLTON BRANCH
PAUL EBERHARD
BIAGIO FIGLIUZZI
GABE MUNN MAGILL
ADRIAN WILLIAMS
Additional Asset Modeling
KEITH COOPER
JOHN CRESON
Shot Finaling Pipeline Supervisor
JORDAN THISTLEWOOD
Pipeline TD
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Lead TD
BRIAN SMEETS
Software & Rendering TDs
DYLAN TROTTER
JUSTIN OTTLEY
MAYUR PATEL
Lighting TDs
DANILA POGALOV
TIM WONG
Lead Shot Finaling Artist
PAUL ARION
Shot Finaling Artists
MAHSA GHORBANKARIMI
KYLE MENZIES
BIAGIO FIGLIUZZI
PAUL ANDERSON
SHAILESH SEAN D’SOUZA
DEVIN LIM
JORGE GIDI
Director, Product Development
Autodesk® Maya®
KEVIN TURESKI
Head of Quality Assurance
Autodesk® Maya®
MIKE MARSHALL
Seneca College School of Communication Arts
Academic Chair
JED DECORY
Associate Chair
MARK JONES
Special Thanks to
University of Toronto
Dynamic Graphics Project
Rendering R&D
KARAN SINGH
AARON HERTZMANN
BRODIE CHAMPION
IGOR MORDATCH
EVANGELOS KALOGERAKIS
Additional R&D Programming (CSC491)
Ryan Schmidt Pardis Beikzadeh
Daniel Steger Teren Teh
Jeff Wong Henry Zaccak
NFB Digital Consultant
SUSAN GOURLEY
NFB Technical Coordinator
JULIE LAPERRIÈRE
Online Editor
DENIS GATHELIER
Final Mix
SERGE BOIVIN
SHELLEY CRAIG
Voice Recording
SPENCE THOMAS AUDIO POST
Administration
GISÈLE GUILBAULT
Legal & Rights
SYLVIA MEZEI
KARYN NOLAN
FRANCESCA TROP
Marketing
MIA DESROCHES
Office PAs
HAROLD GAY
HELI KENNEDY
CALVIN TAMÁS
Special Thanks: Peter MacDonald &
Australian Film Television and Radio School
Permission to use a character based on “Harvey/Lily” from
Harvey © 2001 Australian Film Television and Radio School
All Rights Reserved
Special Thanks: Autodesk, Inc.
Permission to use a character from
Bingo © 1998 Autodesk, Inc. - All Rights Reserved
“Bird on a Wire” Composed by Leonard Cohen
© Leonard Cohen and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company
Performed by Joe Cocker from the album “Joe Cocker!”
Courtesy of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Under licence from Universal Music Canada
Used by Permission - All Rights Reserved
Special Thanks
Ryerson University,
The Chang School of Continuing Education
David Baas, Janet Baker, Kate Blank
Carcia Campbell, Felicity Fanjoy, Karen German
Laura Jo Gunter, Tanya Hampshire, Olivia Jahnke
Jon Levin, Tim Masterson, Brian Morey, Kerri Norman
Jodie Terio / Little Red Theatre / “Henrietta”
The Five Lovely Guys
The Imperial Pub Screenwriting Group
Produced with the creative participation of
AUTODESK CANADA CO.
and
SENECA COLLEGE SCHOOL
OF COMMUNICATION ARTS
Autodesk logo
Seneca logo
the spine
Produced by the
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
in association with
COPPERHEART ANIMATION
and C.O.R.E. DIGITAL PICTURES
www.nfb.ca/thespine
© 2009 National Film Board of Canada
