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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1997)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1997
Platforms: Windows
Format: colour

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Publishers: Panasonic Interactive Media
Developers: 7th Level
Executive Producers: Bob Ezrin, Terry Gilliam
Producer: David Feldstein
Line Producer: Eric Spuur

SCRIPT
Script: Bart Jennett
Additional Writing: Bob Ezrin

DIRECTION
Creative Director: Steve Martino
Technical Director: Alex Yevgenyev
Assistant Technical Director: Paul Tighe

ANIMATION AND PROGRAMMING
Game Designers: David Feldstein, Steve Martino
Puzzle Designers: Steven Hunter, Eric Spuur
Engineering Designer: Jeff English
Director of Scene Planning: Tim Rummel
Director of Development: Kenneth J. Capps
Software Architect: Jeff English
Lead Software Engineers: Jay DeShan, Marvin D. McFaddin, Jason T. Miller
Software Engineers: William Cochran, Paul Downing, Joe Hillman, Michael Montague, Michael Watson
Tools Development: Wes Bell, Michael Thenhaus
Installation Design and Development: Bryan Kennedy
Traditional Animation: Terence Castelo, Alexis Que
Image Processing Coordinator: Alan Botvinick
Assistant Image Processing Coordinator: Jonathan Pekar
2nd Assistant Image Processing Coordinator: Michelle Italiano
Rotoscoping: Aaron Fujii, Stewart Hoffman, Judy Manning, Sno Smith, Steve Stewart
Scanning: Daniel Felts, Brent Fujii
Paste-Up Coordinator: Wendy Jacobsmeyer
Scene Planning Supervisor: Sean Dempsey
Scene Planning Coordinator: Ester Gevorkian
Lead Scene Planners: Bill Luttrell, Salvador Siangio, Jose Silverio
Scene Planners Eric Bryan, Terence Castelo, Sean Dempsey, April Koteh, Maureen Mascarina, Seth Reek, Ricky Santant, Ching Valencia
Scene Planning Engineer: Hasmik Byurat
Scene Planning Assistant Engineer: Karine Chagatsbanyan
Production Technology: Mark A. Steeves
Director of Development Services: Jason Greenwood

PHOTOGRAPHY
Video Optimization and Audio: Paul Ray
Stills: Luis Alexander Lazo

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Video Editor: Charles Otte

MUSIC
Song / Performed By: Eric Idle, Tom Scutt (Dental Ditty)

SOUND
Audio Designer: Patrick McNulty
Audio Producer: Paul Ray
Lead Audio Engineer: Patrick McNulty
Audio Engineers: Tom Chesney, Andre Jacquemin, Linda Radulich, Ron Wasserman
Audio Coordinator: Debbie Fiorella
Audio Production Assistant: Egan Rice

DESIGN
Art Directors: Darin Kirschner, Steve Martino
Assistant Art Director: Lyn Gardner
2nd Assistant Art Director: Charles Otte
Art Production Managers: Harry Gold, Ken Roy
Lead Photoshop Artists: Greg Brotherton, Robert Conner
Photoshop Artists: Kara Chikamori, Doug Elliston, Scott Grossman, Andrew Hinnebusch, Dee Louzginov, Douglas Martin, James Nelms, Dave Pascal, Roger Shank, Zack Tscharanyan
Interface Design: Darin Kirschner
Art Production Assistant: CJ Liao

MISCELLANEOUS
Assistant To The Executive Producers: LeAnn Moen
QA Product Lead: Sean Kanter
QA Engineers: Mike Brown, Rick Germany, Chris Haney, Andrew Hsia, Jason Odom, Ed Roberts, Timothy Ruessler, Kelly Wahlen, Aaron Zaksek
Additional QA Play Testing: Michelle Bagur, Amy Koenig, Melissa Larson, Lori Martin
Technical Support: Cole Anderson, Charles Rehm, Joe Tait
Vice President of Studio Operations: Veronica Murdock
Operations Director: Barbara House
Scheduling: Cerina Lynn
Informational Service: Mark Eddy, Michael Reed
Product Manager: Aileen Carroll
Package Designer: Kirk Skadden
Documentation: Bart Jennett, Shannon Krakosky, Kirk Skadden
The Dealmaker: Lou Viveros
Wants All The Credit But Isn't Getting Any: John Peterson
Last Minute Man: Nathan Wright
Marketing Madness: Shelley Kent, Sangita Verma
Pieces Parts Organizer: Barbara Loo
Testing, Not Grading: Dave Conley, Jim Jennings

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks: Katy Brumbach, Jeanna Crawford, Andrew Jacobs, Dave Oakden, Toni Pace, Tanya Page, Jeryd Pojawa, Roger Saunders, Tony Sciortino, Julius Wiltz, Nikki Winter

VOICES
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
Susan Denaker
Susan Deming
Howard Pattow
Jeffrey Steefel

LINKS

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

KEYWORDS

aquariums, birth control, computer games, fish, food, the grim reaper, heaven, monty python, organ donation, religion, restaurants, safaris, sex, sketch shows, space, surrealism, teachers, zulus

 


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