Arthur Christmas
Year:
2009
Production Country:
Great Britain / USA
Animation. Comedy. Quarelling in the Claus family and an over dependence on mechanisation for the purposes of gift delivery conspire to ruin christmas for one young girl, until Arthur acts to keep the spirit of the season alive.
Cast & credits
Cast
- voice of lead elf Sanjeev Bhaskar
- voice of lead elf Robbie Coltrane
- voice of lead elf Joan Cusack
- voice of lead elf Rhys Darby
- voice of lead elf Jane Horrocks
- voice of lead elf Iain McKee
- voice of lead elf Andy Serkis
- voice of lead elf Dominic West
- voice of elf Peter Baynham
- voice of elf Cody Cameron
- voice of elf Kevin Cecil
- voice of elf Kevin Eldon
- voice of elf Rich Fulcher
- voice of elf Bronagh Gallagher
- voice of elf Pete Jack
- voice of elf Danny John-Jules
- voice of elf Emma Kennedy
- voice of elf Stewart Lee
- voice of elf Seamus Malone
- voice of elf Kris Pearn
- voice of elf Alan Short
- voice of elf Sarah Smith
- voice of elf Adam Tandy
- voice of Pedro Miggie Donahoe
- voice of French boy Finlay Duff
- voice of Idaho man Rich Hall
- voice of reporter Clint Dyer
- voice of reporter Donnie Long
- voice of N.O.R.A.D. Jerry Lambert
- voice of general Deborah Findlay
- voice of general David Schneider
- voice of UNFITA op Ian Ashpitel
- voice of UNFITA op Julia Davis
- voice of UNFITA op Kerry Shale
- additional voices Tamsin Greig
- additional voices Alistair Mcgowan
- voice of Arthur James McAvoy
- voice of Steve Hugh Laurie
- voice of Grandsanta Bill Nighy
- voice of Santa Jim Broadbent
- voice of Mrs Santa Imelda Staunton
- voice of Bryony Ashley Jensen
- voice of Peter Marc Wootton
- voice of North Pole computer Laura Linney
- voice of Chief De Silva Eva Longoria
- voice of Gwen Ramona Marquez
- voice of Ernie Clicker Michael Palin
Credits
Direction
- Directed by Sarah Smith
- Co-director Barry Cook
Production
- An Aardman production Aardman Animations
- Presents Columbia Pictures
- Presents Sony Pictures Animation
- Co-executive Producer Peter Baynham
- Produced by Peter Lord
- Produced by David Sproxton
- Produced by Carla Shelley
- Produced by Steve Pegram
- Co-producer Chris D. Juen
Writing
- Written by Peter Baynham
- Written by Sarah Smith
- Head of Story Donnie Long
Special Effects
- Visual Effects Supervisor Doug Ikeler
Animation
- Senior Animation Supervisor Alan Short
- Supervising Animator Josh Beveridge
- Supervising Animator Alan Hawkins
- Supervising Animator Seamus Malone
- Supervising Animator Peter Nash
- Supervising Animator Brian Scott
- Imagery & Animation by Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.
- Animation by Aardman Animations
- Animation APM Timothy Loughran
- Animation APM Stephen Nixon
- Animator Rachel Anchors
- Animator Rosie Ashforth
- Animator Benoit Bargeton
- Animator Pascale Bories
- Animator Jenna Bors
- Animator Bart Bossaert
- Animator Manuel Martinez Bover
- Animator Shad Bradbury
- Animator Yujung Choi
- Animator Joseph Chong
- Animator Jeremy Collins
- Animator Elisabeth Franklin Constantine
- Animator Rahul Dabholkar
- Animator Patrick Danaher
- Animator Claudio de Oliveira
- Animator Richard Dexter
- Animator Daniel Edwards
- Animator Todd Elliott
- Animator Robert Fox
- Animator Daniel Gerhardt
- Animator David Gibson
- Animator Ryan Glovka
- Animator Matthew Hasselmann
- Animator Melissa Hawkins
- Animator Boris Hiestand
- Animator Sue Houston
- Animator Eric R. Huang
- Animator Ethan Hurd
- Animator Blake Kenneth Johnson
- Animator Aaron Jonas
- Animator Jeff Kim
- Animator Stefan Klauss
- Animator Kim Jin
- Animator Andrew Lawson
- Animator Jeremy Lazare
- Animator David Lisbe
- Animator Nick Matthews
- Animator Brian McGrath
- Animator Matt Meyer
- Animator Valerie Morrison
- Animator John Ogden
- Animator Ryan Page
- Animator J.Q. Park
- Animator Tim Pixton
- Animator Melanie Plett
- Animator David Polk
- Animator Gwendelyn Robson
- Animator Patrick Rossano
- Animator Ludovic Roz
- Animator Philip Rudolph
- Animator Marcelo Sakai
- Animator Dan Segarra
- Animator Ronald Smith
- Animator Alexander Snow
- Animator Ting Tey
- Animator Zachary Torok
- Animator Carolyn Vale
- Animator Roger L. Vizard
- Animator Kelsey Wagner
- Animator Tim Watts
- Animator Lucas Wendler
- Animator Geoff Wheeler
- Animator Chris Williams
- Animator Adam Wood
- Animator Daniele Zannone
- Animator Shaofu Zhang
- Animation Co-ordinator Sarah Babbage
- Animation Co-ordinator Leanne Tanizawa
- Animator Aldo Gagliardi
- Animator Byoung Ho Kang
- Head of Layout David Morehead
- Layout APM Michael Killoren
- Rough Layout Artist Stephane Couture
- Rough Layout Artist Anthony Di Ninno
- Rough Layout Artist Letia Lewis
- Rough Layout Artist Don Reich
- Rough Layout Artist Robert Skiena
- Rough Layout Artist Billy Tai
- Rough Layout Artist Brian Walters
- Rough Layout Artist Sammy Wong
- 3D Stereoscopic Layout Lead Von Williams
- 3D Stereoscopic Layout Artist Alyssa Brule
- 3D Stereoscopic Layout Artist Joanie Karnowski
- Final Layout Lead Emi Tahira
- Final Layout Artist Geer DuBois
- Final Layout Artist Eric Peterson
- Final Layout Artist Craig F. Simpson
- Final Layout Artist Messrob Torikian
- Layout Co-ordinator Devin Anderson
Editing
- Edited by James Cooper
- Edited by John Carnochan
Design
- Production Designer Evgeni Tomov
- Art Director Olivier Adam
- Art Director Alexey Nechytaylo
- Cinematic Designer Jericca Cleland
- Character Designer Peter de Sève
- Character Designer Tim Watts
Music
- Music by Harry Gregson-Williams