Kai (2023)/Credits

Opening
Disney presents

a Pixar Animation Studios film

"Kai"

Directed by

 * Peter Sohn

Produced by

 * Denise Ream, p.g.a.
 * Bob Roath, p.g.a.

Executive Producers

 * Pete Docter
 * Kiri Hart

Associate Producer

 * Mary Alice Drumm

Story & Screenplay by

 * Peter Sohn
 * Kiel Murray
 * Ben Queen
 * Susanna Fogel

Original Songs Performed by

 * Sia

Original Score Composed by

 * James Newton Howard

Story Supervisors

 * Kelsey Mann
 * Jason Katz

Film Editor

 * Axel Geddes

Production Designers

 * Harley Jessup
 * Jay Shuster

Visual Effects Supervisors

 * Sanjay Bakshi
 * David Ryu

Production Manager

 * Kirsten Peterson Marshall

Animation Supervisors

 * Victor Navone
 * Michael Venturini
 * Royce Wesley

Director of Photography

 * Matt Aspbury
 * Michael Sparber

Character Supervisor

 * Christian Hoffman

Sets Supervisors

 * Colin Hayes Thompson
 * Amy L. Allen

Simulation Supervisor

 * Christine Waggoner

Effects Supervisor

 * Michael K. O'Brien

Lighting Supervisor

 * Jesse Hollander

Crowds Animation Supervisor

 * Paul Mendoza

Crowds Technical Supervisor

 * Paul Kanyuk

Global Technology & Dailies Supervisor

 * J.D. Northrup

Rendering Supervisor

 * Humera Yasmin Khan

Character Art Director

 * Matt Nolte

Sets Art Director

 * Nat McLaughlin

Shading Art Director

 * Bert Berry

Graphics Art Director

 * Craig Foster

Story Managers

 * Samantha Wilson
 * Jenni Rowland

Editorial Manager

 * Daniella Muller

Art Manager

 * Courtney Casper Kent

Script Supervisors

 * Kelly Bonbright
 * Paula Jones
 * Melissa Lynn Andres

Layout & Rendering Manager

 * Leslie Pao

Animation Manager

 * Diana Guardado

Characters Manager

 * Mary Van Escobar

Sets Manager

 * Hana Yoon

Simulation Manager

 * Eric Rosales

Effects Manager

 * Pauline Chu

Dailies & Sweatbox Managers

 * Piper Freeman
 * Meredith Hom

Lighting Manager

 * Kathryn Hendrickson

Executive Music Producer

 * Tom MacDougall

Post-Production Producer

 * Jessie Thiele Schroeder

Sound Designers

 * Nia Hansen
 * Shannon Mills

Casting by

 * Kevin Reher, C.S.A
 * Natalie Lyon, C.S.A
 * Beaver Townsen, C.S.A.

Casting Associate

 * Kate Hansen-Birnbaum

Cast

 * Kai: Dave Franco
 * Hosato: Dwayne Johnson
 * Lord Shadow: Gary Oldman
 * Master Yu: Anthony Hopkins
 * Misaki: Cate Blanchett
 * Tashi: Luke Evans
 * Yoshi: Michael Peña
 * Raiden: Brad Pitt
 * Kiyoshi: TBA
 * Riku: John Ratzenberger
 * Izumi: Kimiko Glenn
 * Natsuo/Young Kai: Asher Bishop
 * Saburou: Jin Zhang
 * Mai: Tian Jing
 * TBA: Peter Sohn
 * TBA: Bill Hader

Associate Executive Producer

 * Carrie Hobson

Production Finance Lead

 * Maxwell Ernst

Additional Lighting Design

 * Sharon Calahan, A.S.C.

Additional Production Management

 * Krissy Cababa

Story Leads

 * Melody Cisinski
 * Le Tang

Story Coordinator

 * Nick Mikesell

Story & Script Coordinator

 * Jillian Underwood Harvin

Additional Story Contributions

 * Bob Peterson
 * Domee Shi

Additional Dialogue Contributions

 * Peter Sohn
 * Sam Means
 * Meredith Scardino

Additional Story Management

 * Diana Guardado
 * Rodney A. Brillante

Second Film Editors

 * Anna Wolitzky
 * Tim Fox
 * Jennifer Jew

First Assistant Editor

 * Christopher Zuber

Editorial Coordinators

 * Lauren Pan
 * Jaclyn Grubin

Additional Script Supervision

 * Cara Brody

Associate Editors

 * William Starling
 * Kevin Rose-Williams

Additional Second Assistant Editor

 * Carmen Velasquez

Production Music & Sound Editor

 * Justin Pearson

Senior Recording Engineer

 * Vince Caro

Recording Engineer

 * Adrian Maruri

Editorial Intern

 * Nicholas Sy

Art Coordinators

 * Emily Salas
 * Diana Guardado
 * Emily Wilson

Art & Global Technology Coordinator

 * Kelley Choi

Additional Character Art Direction

 * Deanna Marsigliese

Graphics Designers

 * Paul Conrad
 * Josh Holtsclaw
 * Laura Meyer

Lighting Key Designer

 * Ernesto Nemesio

Sculptor

 * Greg Dykstra

Additional Sets Art Direction

 * Huy Nguyen

Additional Shading Art Direction

 * Bryn Imagire

Additional Artists

 * De'Von Stubblefield
 * Zaruhi Galstyan
 * Nancy Tsang
 * Tom Gately

Art Interns

 * Brianna Grant
 * Tiiwon Siaway
 * Asha Farmer

Layout Leads

 * Arjun Rihan
 * Leo Santos

Layout Coordinator

 * Kimmy Birdsell

Additional Layout Artists

 * Jan Pfenninger
 * Andrea Goh
 * Andy Grisdale

Post-Animation Camera Artist

 * Shawn Brennan

Directing Animators

 * Guilherme Sauerbronn Jacinto
 * Gini Cruz Santos
 * Nate Wall

Additional Directing Animator

 * Jaime Roe

Animation Fix Lead

 * Michael Bidinger

Lead Drawover Artists

 * Matt Nolte
 * Evan Bonifacio

Animation Coordinator

 * Carolyn Mazanec

Animation Technical Coordinator

 * Katherine Gugger

Animation Fix Coordinator

 * Jacy Johnson

Animation Technical Supervisor

 * John LeGrande

Animation Tools Leads

 * Rob Jensen
 * Aaron Koressel

Crowds Technical Lead

 * Hsiao-Hsien Aaron Lo

Additional Crowds Technical Artist

 * Michael Lorenzen

Crowds Pipeline Engineer

 * Stephen Gustafson

Character Modeling & Articulation Leads

 * Lou Hamou-Lhadj
 * Mark Piretti

Character Shading & Groom Leads

 * Alex Marino
 * Byron Bashforth

Additional Character Lead

 * Ian Steplowski

Character Coordinator

 * Nicholas Robert

Additional Character Supervision

 * Sajan Skaria

Additional Character Artists

 * Beth Albright
 * Kaleb Rice
 * Catherine Luo

Sets Modeling Lead

 * Gaston Ugarte

Sets Dressing Lead

 * Tom Miller

Sets Shading Leads

 * Eric Andraos
 * Thidaratana Annee Jonjai

Sets Technical Lead

 * Mike Ravella

Sets Technical Artist

 * Marlena Fecho

Additional Sets Artists

 * Chris Bernardi
 * Rui Tong

Global Technology & Dailies Coordinator

 * Chris Haynes

Set Extension Supervisor

 * Matthew Webb

Set Extension Lead

 * Martin Sebastian Senn

Tailoring Lead

 * Aimei Kutt

Simulation Lead

 * Jung-Hyun Kim

Tailoring & Simulation Coordinators

 * Andy Simionas
 * Kelley Losik

Additional Simulation Artist

 * Matthew Benson

Additional Tailoring

 * Lyon Liew

Effects Leads

 * Keith Daniel Klohn
 * Ferdi Scheepers
 * Stephen Marshall

Effects Technical Lead

 * Alexis Angelidis

Effects Coordinators

 * Jess Gutierrez
 * Carolina Angel

Additional Effects Development

 * Jason Johnston

Technical Lighting Leads

 * Linhan Li
 * Don Bui

Lightspeed Lead

 * David Verona

Lighting Coordinators

 * Jeanette Elizabeth McKillop
 * Grace Spencer Geller

Lighting & Effects Coordinator

 * Molly Wittenstein

Lightspeed Coordinator

 * Mia Stapleton

Dailies Rendering Liaison

 * Susan Fisher Fong

Assistants to Director and Producers

 * Amy Ellenwood
 * Lauren Halberg

Executive Assistant to the Producers

 * Morgan Karadi

Production Office Manager

 * Erinn Kathryn Burke

Production Finance Analyst

 * Kelsey Monken

Feature Relations Manager

 * Melissa Bernabei Morrison

Feature Relations Project Manager

 * Maura Turner

Production Office Assistant

 * Jasmine Williams

Additional Production Support

 * Matt DeMartini
 * Jessica Katz
 * Gerisa Macale

Cultural Consultant

 * Beatrice Basso

Head of Creative Development

 * Mary Coleman

Senior Development Executive

 * Emily Mollenkopf

Development Manager

 * Suz Loshin

Development Executive Assistant

 * Jessica Linche

Creative Development Associate

 * Jacob Combs

Development Production Coordinator

 * Mariah Thompson

Illustrations

 * Paula Assadourian
 * Michael Yates

Title Design

 * Laura Meyer

Art & Design

 * Andrew Jimenez

Production Coordinator

 * Susan Eggett

Post Production Supervisor

 * Jeremy Slome

Executive Assistant to Post Production

 * Heather Eisner

Original Dialogue Recordists

 * Jeannette Browning Hernandez
 * Adrian Maruri
 * Nick Jimenez

Production Sound Assistant

 * Veronica Toledo