First Flight
- Studio
- DreamWorks Animation
- Distributor
- DreamWorks Animation, Paramount Pictures Corporation
Synopsis
An uptight businessman has his perspective on life changed forever through an unexpected encounter with a tiny fledgling bird. The bird drops in on the life of the very fastidious businessman on his way to work. He isn't too keen to pay any attention to the interruption, but all of that changes when he realizes that he could show this bird its wings.
Characters
Bird, Swift
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Cameron Hood, Kyle Jefferson
Producing
- Producer
- Maryann Garger
- Co-Producer
- Pilar Flynn
Writing
- Writer
- Cameron Hood, Kyle Jefferson
Animation
Voices
- Voice
- Jeanine Meyers (Bird), Jon Spinogatti (Swift)
Music
- Music
- James Michael Dooley
- Assistant to Composer
- Matthew Margeson
Editing
- Editor
- Marcus Taylor
- Assistant Editors
- Darrin Ly, Joe Monteleone
- Editor (High Definition)
- Paul Neal
Crew
- Production Supervisors
- Rene Harnois Jr, Maude Lewis, Romney T. Marino, Caprice Ann Ridgeway, Makiko Wakita
- Post-Production Supervisor
- Lori Korngiebel
- Storyboard Artists
- Stephen Cane, Alessandro Carloni, Gavin Moran, Claire Morrissey
- Visual Development
- Shaun Collaco, Ruben Hickman, David James, Bill Kaufmann, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Raymond Zibach
- Supervising Sound Editor
- Mark Binder
- Score Mixer
- Dennis S. Sands
- Music Editor
- Tom Trafalski
- Lighters
- Suelika J. Chial, Anthony Esposito III, Greg Lev, Igor Lodeiro, Clare Ann McKenna, Jason Scott, Curt Stewart, Pablo Valle, Gabriel White
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Doug Cooper
- Visual Effects
- Ben H. Kwa, David Morehead
- Technical Directors
- Clare Ann McKenna, Joshua F. Richards, Donald Schmidt
- Character Technical Director Supervisors
- Scott Ballard, Mitch Cockerham
- Character Technical Directors
- Scott Ben Cheung, Alec Fredericks, York N. Schueller, Paul Seidman
- CGI Supervisor
- Matt Johnson
- CG Supervisor
- Julie Anne Mayfield
- Modeling Supervisor
- Rachel Tiep-Daniels
- Modelers
- John M. Dowell, Marty Havran, Ergin Kuke, Igor Lodeiro, Peter C. Miller, Brett Nystul, Haengsook Oh, Salvatore Richichi Jr, Heather M. Shepherd, Ed Shurla, Don Taylor, Purnanand Wagle
- Surfacing Supervisor
- Paolo deGuzman
- Surfacers
- Steve Brooks, Robbin Huntingdale, Sully Jacome-Wilkes, Travis Price, Kevin Turcotte, David Valdez
- Titles
- Ariandy Chandra
- Color Timer
- Terry Claborn
- Lead Film and Color Technician
- Kyle Pascucci
- Digital Colorist
- Timothy Peeler
- Negative Cutter
- Mo Henry
- Layout Artists
- David Morehead, Rich Turner
- Executive in Charge of Music
- Sunny Park
- Music Preparation
- Brandon Roberts
- Music Coordinator
- Ken "Kaz" Smith
- Character Effects
- Ron Williams
- Production Coordinator
- Sarah Mihalec
- Production Assistants
- Brian K. Aspinwall, Jason Pope
- Production Accountant
- Matt Jalo Burke
- Special Thanks
- Keith Baxter, Martin Costello, Karen Foster, Oscar Hood, Paul Pfisterer, Bert Poole, Saty Raghavachary, Jim Ryan, David Soren, John Tarnoff, Charley Walters, Waz
Production notes
Debuted at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Released with the Los Angeles and New York showings of Over The Hedge.
Awards
Nominee, First Prize (Short Films), Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson, Montréal World Film Festival, 2006