AREA21 – Followers

Director: Jeremy Polgar

Client: Disney Music Group

Realizing that everyone is addicted to their phones and social media, the aliens delete everyone’s followers to help them experience the real world and learn to love themselves.

Executive Producers: Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, Ben Kalina

Co-Executive Producers: Martijn Garritsen, Brandon Green, Ken Bunt, Watse de Jong

Director: Jeremy Polgar

Producer: Will Feng

Associate Producer: Riley Riggen

Writer: Mark Brooks

Production Coordinator: Jackie Araujo, Julia Chow

Production Assistant: Isaiah Wolfe

Storyboard Artist: Jeremy Polgar

Storyboard Revisionist: Stephanie Ressler

Art Director: Anthony Wu

Concept Artists: Chase Conley, Anthony Wu

Character Designer: Mariko Yamashin

Assistant Character Designers: Carl Aspuria, Richard Suh

Prop Designer: Kevin Scarborough

Background Layout Artists: Elliott Byrne, Kali Ciesemier, Leland Goodman, Julia Oh, Kevin Scarborough, Rodrigo Tello, Callie Wei

Background Painters: Mike Chung, Kali Ciesemier, Leah Douw, Julia Oh, Amanda Winterstein

Color Stylist: Mike Chung

3D Generalists: Chris Boylan, Devin Korwin, Allan Parker, Kingston Waller

Animators: Lzyboost, Pato Agua, Michelle Chan, Julian Fumagalli, Mika Gabot, Marta Marini, James Maza, Nas Pasha, Jeremy Polgar, Husain Untoro, Kris Yim

Retake Animator: John Berry

Animation Clean-up by: INK Animation Pty Ltd., Digitoonz Media & Entertainment LLC

Digital Compositors: Axel Alvarez, Sam Batterbury, Drew Bolduc, Colin Fleming, Amanda LaMarco, Cam Leeburg, Alex Miller

Animatic Editor: Rachael Russakoff

Editor: Rachael Russakoff, Marco Vera

Supervising Sound Editor: James Lucero

FX Editors: Marcos Abrom, James Lucero

Color Provided by: The Mill

Colorist: Nick Metcalf

Executive Producer: Rochelle Brown

Associate Producer: Lucy Gatanis

Color Assistants: David Franzo, Stephanie Park

Production Accountant: Jason Lucas

1st Assistant: Katarina Flavin

IT Support: Michael Douglas, Colin Kelly, Kashan Khan, Eli Mattar, Meys Quintana

IT Support Coordinator: Michael Keenan

Network Engineer: Hani Sadjadi

IT Director: Steve Wolstrup