360 Google Spotlight Stories: Special Delivery

A short film made by Academy Award-winning studio, Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep).

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…

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Credits

Directed by
Tim Ruffle

Produced by
Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew
Kim Adams

Creative Directors
Peter Lord
Jan Pinkava

Executive Producers
Heather Wright
Karen Dufilho
Regina Dugan

Technical Project Lead
Rachid El Guerrab

Creative Director, Music & Sound
Scot Stafford

Lead Technical Art Director
Brian Collins

Technical Art Lead
Luca Prasso

Aardman Animations
Story by
Peter Lord
Tim Ruffle
Andy Janes
Sam Morrison

Aardman Animations:
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: Andy Janes; Colour Design: 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; Voice Talent: Janitor: Rich Webber; Santa: Peter Lord; Pigeon Lady: Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew; Angry Neighbor: Doug Sweetland; Editor: Dan Hembery; Sound Editor: Laura Izzard; Studio Publicity: Anna Lewis

Google Spotlight Stories:
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, DigitalFish: Ken Brain, Mark Decker; Technical Consultant, DigitalFish: 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; Music Production: Pollen Music Group; 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, and Grayson

[TonyoPet]

Fantastic... wonderful work! Now I've got to watch this 12 more times and see all the extra stuff going on outside the main story.

[まあちゃんとみー-hn]

This is underrated!!!
You can even turn it 360
but way to blurry

[cload]

This is really good because unlike most 360 videos where you are constantly looking around at everything, the main things you need to look at are in one spot

[JohnGoundry]

Truly amazing. That guy with the turkey 😅.

You can even see behind the title at the start if you turn around.

Really best viewed on a phone with a gyroscope, and watched in app.

Bravo.

[RattyThunder]

This is so nostalgic! I watched this in 2016.

[ohfiddlydiddlydoodoo]

This shows you how Santa can just break into people's houses without permission. What a heck of a guy.

[TwoAnimators]

Amazing animation and brilliant use of interactivity within video! Very cool :)

[WendyWentzel]

Reminds me of the opening animations for the old Pink Panther movies!

[Griffinilla]

Awesome! This was fascinating to watch. I wonder how many Easter Eggs there are, if any...

[--Fil]

Чудесный мультфильм! Браво! Пересмотрел раз 15 со всех ракурсов! 10 из 10. Wonderful cartoon! Bravo! Revised 15 times from all angles! 10 out of 10.

[vern]

That is the craziest video I have ever watched, over and over! Lol Merry Christmas ☃

[CharlesMoss]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the future of filmmaking!

[igoerkee]

WOW THATS SO
Have you people ever heard of ... computer games maybe?

[AliCrown]

Thia BEST Thing I Watched In My life This BEST TECHNOLOGY In The World that same the games i can show anything and the video sides and corners my right and my left down up
But i have ask how you did that i so much want how to make this things
And Thank you for this fun this is so awesome !!

[DonBarracuda]

Brilliantly well done.

Reminds me very much of classic Pink Panther, I miss that show. They should bring it back, maybe in 360 degree format!

[piakirei]

Fun (But Weird) Fact: When you look closley at the famous door gag, you can see that the caretaker and Santa switched bodies! What happened there, a posession?!

[alaafu]

Wow ... that is really amazing .. keep going on to the new world of videos ... nice work 👍👍👍

[al]

Very interesting! I will hope further development of this innovation!

[DamiantenBohmer]

Very clever animations and almost VR experience, thanks for sharing Google.

[akifjevda]

Супер! Наконец-то что-то кардинально новенькое на YouTube.