Sonaria, Google Spotlight Stories

Google Spotlight Stories means storytelling for VR. We are artists and technologists making immersive stories for mobile 360, mobile VR and room-scale VR headsets, and building the innovative tech that makes it possible. Enjoy the experience - look, listen, explore - and never worry that you'll miss anything.

Follow two ever-changing creatures as they flow from one life-form to another on a vivid journey of sound and light. Sonaria’s visual language is simple and abstract, designed to suggest, while the sonic language is layered and immersive, designed to answer. Nominated - Emmy's Innovation in Interactive Media, 2018. Telly Award Winner for Art Direction & Interactive Video, Music, Sound Design, 2018.

Directed by
Scot Stafford & Chromosphere

Creative Directors
Kevin Dart
Jan Pinkava

Producers
Camille Cellucci
Myles Shioda

Executive Producers
Karen Dufilho
Rachid El Guerrab
Dan Kaufman

Art Director
Jasmin Lai

Technical Art Lead
Theresa Latzko
Kye-Wan Sung

Music and Sound Design by
Scot Stafford

Chromosphere

Design
Michelle Kwon
Nelson Boles

CG
Lucky Xue
Eran Hilleli

Animation
Alex Grigg
Yoav Shtibelman
Uri Lotan
Amaël Isnard

Compositing
Stéphane Coëdel

Music and Sound Production
Pollen Music Group

Lead Recording Engineer
JJ Wiesler

Recorded at
Decibelle Recording, San Francisco

Violin & Section Lead
Evan Price

Violin
Deborah Tien Price

Viola
Marcel Gemperli

Cello
Eric Gaenslen
Michelle Kwon
Samsun Van Loon
Semyon Kobialka

Sound Design
Jamey Scott
JJ Wiesler

Recordist (Weddell Seals)
Douglas Quin

Google Spotlight Stories

Software Lead
James Ritts

Engine Lead
James Beattie

Tools Lead
Morgwn McCarty

Program Manager
Swapneel Kshetramade

Associate Producer
Sara Diamond

Production Coordinator
Zaria Gunn

Technical Artists
Cassidy Curtis
Ryan Enslow
Matthew Oursbourn

Software Engineers
Josiah Larson
Darren Austin
Andrea Hemphill
Guruji Panda

Graphics Software Engineer
Daniel Jeppsson

Tools Engineer
Chris Fontas

QA Lead Test Engineer
Ravikumar Aluru

Senior Documentation Writer
Bob Morgan (XVII)

Audio Software Engineer
Wayne Jackson

Support Engineers
Monika Erande
Juan Miguel de Joya
Angie Traeger
“Pouchon” Jean Venerin
Guoqiang Xie

Public Relations, The PR Kitchen
Fumi Kitahara Otto

Intern
Isabel Queiroz

Evil Eye Pictures

Maya Artist
Derrick Lau

Production Coordinator
HyoJin Kim

Made at Google ATAP

Project Roles
Line Producer
Skills
Producing
Media
2D Animations, 3D Animations, Augmented Reality
Sonaria, Google Spotlight Stories
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