Soundtrack
The quality of the soundtrack that accompanies Ceremony of Innocence is superb, having been created and recorded in some of world's most advanced audio facilities including Real World Studios. The sound effects respond to the way in which the user interacts with the action taking place on the screen, giving sonic clues on how to release the text of the postcards and letters or providing an entertaining response to investigations of this mysterious environment.
Joan Ashworth
Joan Ashworth, Director of Animation at the Royal College of Art in London, together with her colleague Andy Staveley, constructed intricately detailed three-dimensional character models. They then designed and filmed sequences of movements for the models in such a way that the characters could be set free to respond to the viewer.
Ruth Lingford
London based independent film maker Ruth Lingford is the animator who brought to life the petroglyphs: tiny black creatures, based on cave paintings, that scurry chaotically through the cards with an uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bedric Glaser
Bedric Glaser is the artist responsible for constructing and animating the characters used in the films 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Faust' by celebrated Czech director Jan Svankmajer. For Ceremony of Innocence Bedric used a clay-based animation technique to create a man's head, from the inside of which a ferocious little animal claws its way to daylight. The animal used was intended to be an Aye-aye from Madagascar but unfortunately this was not allowed through Czech customs, so a replica was created from the skin of a pine marten by the chief taxidermist at the National Museum in Prague and brought to life by Glaser's unique talents.
Jeff de Boer
Jeff de Boer, a Canadian fine/conceptual artist and founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, specialises in the making of bizarre, but beautifully constructed, metalwork. His studio in Calgary is filled with an assortment of antique Martian ray guns, briefcases with Arthurian broadsword handles and a range of precision-built armour to protect duelling cats, rats and mice. For Ceremony of Innocence he forged a suit of Samurai armour for a cat which was jointed so that it could be animated in a scene where it battles with the user's mouse.
Jonathan Hodgson
English animator Jonathan Hodgson was responsible for a remarkable sequence of paintings used to bring to life a postcard image based on Yeats' poem, 'The Cat in the Moon'. He transformed the poem into a visual narrative of images that flow with graceful energy.
