The Nut Job
- Studio
- ToonBox Entertainment, Red Rover, Gulfstream Pictures
- Distributor
- The Weinstein Company, Open Road
Synopsis
The story centers around a mischievous squirrel named Surly and his rat friend who get banished from their park and are forced to survive in the big city. The two independent squirrels plan a nut-store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a complicated adventure in order to save their lives and park community.
Characters
Surly Squirrel, Buddy, Grayson, Andie, Raccoon, King, Precious, Mole, Jimmy, Lana, Fingers, Lucky, Johnny, Jamie, Girl Scout, Redline, Rat, Armoured Guard, Police Officer, Pigeon
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Peter Lepeniotis
Producing
- Producer
- Graham Moloy, W.K. Jung
- Executive Producers
- Jay Ahn, Daniel Woo, Hong Kim
- Co-Executive Producers
- Hoe-Jin Ha, Hyungkon Kim, Tom Yoon
- Associate Producers
- Robert Eckmann, William Woojae Hahn, Yeongshin Kang, Hakbeom Kim, Hojeong Kim, Byungho Nam, Min Suk Yang, Chae Yoon
- Executive Producers, Gulfstream Pictures
- Mike Karz, Bill Bindley
Writing
- Writer
- Peter Lepeniotis, Lorne Cameron
Voices
- Voice
- Will Arnett (Surly Squirrel), Brendan Fraser (Grayson), Katherine Heigl (Andie), Liam Neeson (Raccoon), Stephen Lang (King), Maya Rudolph (Precious), Jeff Dunham (Mole), Gabriel Iglesias (Jimmy), Sarah Gadon (Lana), James Rankin (Fingers), Scott Yaphe (Lucky), Joe Pingue (Johnny), Annick Obonsawin (Jamie), Julie Lemieux (Girl Scout), Rob Tinkler (Redline), James Kee (Rat, Armoured Guard), Scott McCord (Police Officer, Animals), Katie Griffin (Pigeon)
Music
- Music
- Paul Intson
Editing
- Editor
- Paul Hunter
Crew
- Casting
- Joanne Boreham
- Production Manager
- Josaleah Porter
- Assistant Production Managers
- Dimitri Anastasakis, Sonya Carey, Anna Keenan, Michael Schwartz
- Art Director
- Ian Hastings
- Art And Design, APM
- Michael Schwartz
- Designers
- Janine Antolin, Natasha Dichpan, Hee Kyung Kang, Sasa Radosavcevic, Tigh Walker, Dermot Walshe
- Story Artists
- Lyndon Ruddy
- Character Designers
- Daryl Graham, Jaewoo Kim
- Character Finaling Artists
- Robert Caputi, Stephanie Cooper, Anthony De Chellis, Scott W. Edelman, Rafael Fernandez-Stoll, Tony Linka, Jeffrey Tran
- Layouts
- Paul Anderson, Michael Becki, Joe Levac, Seamus O'Keeffe, Rogelio Rodriguez, Roger Rodriguez, Neil Rubie, Tim M. Townsend, Will Weston
- Storyboard Artists
- Myke Bakich, Jason Boose, Joe Giampapa, Michael MacAdam, Sarah Mercey, Michael Smukavic
- Lead Digital Painter
- Julie Eberley
- Digital Painters
- Barbara Massey, Olga Stern
- Animation Supervisor
- Morgan Ginsberg
- Animation Director
- Daryl Graham
- Animators
- Vanessa Arsen, Stephen Baker, Marc-Andre Baron, Brendan Beesley, Renee Brunton, Eder Cardoso, Lawrence Choi, YoungChul Chun, Jeremy Cummins, Trevor Deane-Freeman, Shane Doyle, Camilo Duarte Franco, Joe Gearing, Rob Gennings, Leon W. Gittens, Isaac Marcos Gonzalez, Vincent Gorman, Scott Heatherley, David Herfindahl, Cayle Hotchkiss, Morgan Hunter, Trevor Hunter, Soh-i Jeong, WooSuk Jung, Samad Khan, Do Yoon Kim, Kyung Min Kim, SunJung Kim, Mike Kitchen, Dae Hyun Lee, Seung gi Lee, Jesse Lickman, SangBin Lim, Mike Lopez, Paul McLennan, Praveen Nadaraju, Holly Nigh, Athavan Rajaratnam, Nicholas St. Clair, Miurika Valery, Archie Villaverde, Jason Wellings
- Lead Previs Artist
- Armen Melkonian
- Previz Artists
- Rob Elliot, Keren Kurtz, Brian Foster
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Brad Falk
- Visual Effects Developers
- Sandy Lam Wai Yam, Oleksiy Manita
- Visual Effects Artists
- Maryia Kazakevich, Bahador Mehrpouya, Igor Ramade, Michael Sun
- Lead Visual Effects Artist
- Alexander Feigin
- Senior Lighting Lead
- Inna Itkin
- Lighting And Compositing Supervisor
- Sumit Suri
- Lead Lighter & Compositors
- Amir Honarmand, Jamie Minett, Parastu Rezaie, Scott Sanderson
- Lighting & Compositing Artists
- Lankesh Annamalai, Katarzyna Cieryt, Laura Diaz, Darshan Mehta, Paul George, Keren Kurtz, Sheldon Lisoy, Nachiket Pujari, Kevin Rostant, Tom Voll, Karan Awasthi, Joseph Creswell, R. J. Dominguez
- Lead Modeling Artist
- Graham Sukhiani
- Modeling Artists
- Mike Gauthier, Joseph Kim, Matt Lewis, Hwasup Song, Pawel Szptyko, Michael Thatcher
- Lead Rigging Artists
- Roja Huchez, Louis Vottero
- Rigging Artists
- Alicia Carvalho, Garvey Chi, Agustin Loreto, Chris Pedersen, Mihela Petriu, Rie Shibazaki
- Show Technical Director
- Josh Clark
- Senior Surfacing Artist
- Jawahar Bhatti
- Lead Surfacing Artists
- Jeong Won Cho, Zachary Lowe
- Surfacing Artists
- Wayne Carnegie, Terrance Carl Chandler, Paul Eberhard, Kosta Lavrinuk, Derian McCrea, Jinyong Park, Pam Paulenko
- Lead Technical Director
- Daniel A. Murray
- Technical Directors
- Eric Falconer, Philip Luk, Dawei Sun, Matthew C. Tucker
- Pipeline Developer
- Ed Charlton
- Render Support
- Russel Rehmund
- Stereoscopic Supervisors
- Se Hwan Hwang, Alexis Lee
- Stereo Artist
- Young Hyun Kim
- Head Of Production Technology
- Bill Seneshen
- Production Coordinator
- Laura C. Thompson
- Post-Production Supervisor
- Gregor Hutchison
- Music Editor
- Kevin Banks
- Music Supervisor: For Arpix Media
- Andrea Higgins
- Orchestra And Studio Contractor
- F.A.M.E.'S. Project
- Assistant Editors
- Allan Cordero, David Vincent During
- First Assistant Editor
- Mhairi Kerr
- Sound Re-Recording Mixers
- Steph Carrier, Keith Elliott
- Original Dialouge Mixer
- Carlos Sotolongo
- Sound Recordist
- Jeff Wright
- Systems Manager
- Greg Whynott
- Special Thanks
- Sebastian Bae, Kirsten Bodenstedt, Ray Brooks, Jason DeRosse, David Matthew Deslaurier, Jacob Fleischer, Rob Norman
Production notes
Based on Peter Lepeniotis' 2005 short Surly Squirrel.
This film is ToonBox Entertainment's first feature length film.
This film is ToonBox Entertainment's first feature length film.
