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The Making of "Pearl", a Google Spotlight Story

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The Making of "Pearl", a Google Spotlight Story

"Pearl" is a Spotlight Story directed by Oscar-winning animator Patrick Osborne. Conceived from the beginning as a 360º experience, "Pearl" takes place entirely in a car and explores the gifts we inherit from our parents, both tangible and intangible.

The challenge: create a 360º interactive animated film with a strongly art-directed, highly stylized non-photorealistic look, with naturalistic character animation tightly synchronized with an original song, and a story that collapses decades into minutes through montage, and make it run on a wide range of devices, from mobile phones to VR headgear, in real time.

Patrick Osborne, Director
Google

Rachid El Guerrab, Spotlight Stories Project Lead
Google

Scot Stafford, Creative Director, Music and Sound
Google

Cassidy Curtis, Tech Art Lead
Google