Special Delivery
- Studio
- Google ATAP
- Animation studio
- Aardman Animations
- Distributor
- YouTube 360
Synopsis
Find yourself following the adventures of a humble caretaker, who is disturbed by a mysterious stranger on the roof. Who’s there? And the chase begins… room to room… up and down… somehow, mysteriously, just out of sight. But the elusive stranger is always one step ahead, leaving behind only a trail of gifts…
Characters
Janitor, Santa, Pigeon Lady, Angry Neighbor
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Tim Ruffle
- Creative Directors
- Peter Lord, Jan Pinkava
Producing
- Producer
- Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew, Kim Adams
- Executive Producers
- Heather Wright, Karen Dufilho, Regina Dugan
Writing
- Writer
- Peter Lord, Tim Ruffle, Andy Janes, Sam Morrison
Voices
- Voice
- Rich Webber (Janitor), Peter Lord (Santa), Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew (Pigeon Lady), Doug Sweetland (Angry Neighbor)
Editing
- Editor
- Dan Hembery
Crew
- Technical Project Lead
- Rachid El Guerrab
- Creative Director, Music & Sound
- Scot Stafford
- Lead Technical Art Director
- Brian Collins
- Technical Art Lead
- Luca Prasso
- Head of CGI Production
- Jess McKillop
- Production Manager
- Danny Gallagher
- Production Co-Ordinator
- Hannah Campbell
- Technical Supervisors
- Philip Child, Ben Toogood
- Technical Story Director
- Lee Brown
- Technical Co-Ordinator
- Shane Simms
- Camera Programmer
- Marco Weber
- Storyboard Artist
- Andy Janes
- Character Design
- Nigel Davies
- Set Design & Colour Keys
- Aurelian Predal
- CGI Environment Build
- Andy Lavery, Christopher Livesey
- Additional Environment Build
- Clare Price
- CGI Modellers
- Christopher Livesey, Tom Lord, Jonathan MacDonald, Antonio Mendoza Salado
- CGI Riggers
- Christelle Girard, Nathan Guttridge, Chris Kilshaw, Martin Parsons, Clare Price, Vincent Touache
- CGI Animation and Supervision
- Mathew Rees
- CGI Animators
- Eva Bennett, Olly Davis, Andy Fossey, John Ogden, Terry Reilly, Inez Woldman
- CGI Junior Animators
- Morten Andersen, Lasse Rützou Bruntse, Sara Jespersen Holm
- 2D Animator
- Philip Parker
- Santa
- Peter Lord
- Pigeon Lady
- Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew
- Angry Neighbor
- Doug Sweetland
- Editor
- Dan Hembery
- Sound Editor
- Laura Izzard
- Studio Publicity
- Anna Lewis
- Software Lead
- James Ritts
- Engine Lead
- James Beattie
- Tools Lead
- Brendan Duncan
- Support Engineer
- Josiah Larson
- Engineering Manager
- Brian Clark
- Program Manager
- Ellen Yang
- Technical Artists
- Ryan Enslow, Matthew Oursbourn, Kye Wan Sung
- Software Engineers
- Darren Austin, Andrea Hemphill, Tim Leahy, Guruji Panda, Jamieson Pryor
- Support Engineers, Digital Fish
- Ken Brain, Mark Decker, Adam Wagner
- Graphics Engineers
- Jeremy Chernobieff, Daniel Jeppsson, Shaveen Kumar, Houman Meshkin, Timothy Richards, Owens Rodriguez
- Tools Engineers
- Morgwn McCarty, Eric Mueller, Ciaran Wills
- Designer & Compositor
- Bryan Woods
- QA Lead Test Engineers
- Ravi Aluru, Charles Darakdjian
- QA Engineers
- Jose Camba, Zhichao Ren
- Production Assistant
- Sara Diamond
- Music
- Scot Stafford, Dave Lebolt
- Sound Supervision
- Scot Stafford
- Sound Design
- Jamey Scott
- Audio Software Engineer
- Wayne Jackson
- Google ATAP - Deputy Director
- Dan Kaufman
- Director of Operations
- Holly Lim
- Director, Strategy and Partnerships
- Cameron Walker
- Financial Analyst
- Jonathan Bradley
- Chief of Staff
- Rachel Lillestolen
- Program Administration
- Matthew Yonaki
- Corporate Council
- Tom Lue, Zachary Patton
- Marketing
- Jessica Beavers
- Communications Managers
- Victoria Cassady, Iska Saric
- Social Media Manager
- Jaime Schember
- Public Relations, the pr kitchen
- Fumi Kitahara Otto
- Production Babies
- Brendan, Caleb, Philip, Grayson
Companies and other credits
- Voice Talent: Janitor: Rich Webber
- Music Production: Pollen Music Group
Production notes
The first interactive short for Google's Spotlight Stories initiative. Special Delivery is also a non-linear experience in a way that the earlier Spotlight Stories weren't. In the full interactive experience which uses the motion sensors of mobile devices, the story includes 10 subplots, three potential ways to see the ending, and 60+ moments where you can decide to follow the story in different ways.
