PRODUCER & DIRECTOR

Gary Yost led the team that invented Autodesk 3ds Max, the world’s most popular 3D visual effects production system, and is an award-winning filmmaker with unique expertise in the combined fields of computer imaging, filmmaking and immersive storytelling. He founded the WisdomVR Project in 2018 with Ram Dass as the inaugural subject.

DIRECTOR & EDITOR

Adam Loften is a documentary filmmaker producing award-winning 360/VR films and multimedia stories that highlight pressing social and environmental issues. His projects have screened at film festivals around the world and have been featured on PBS, National Geographic, Emergence Magazine, The Atlantic and the New York Times.

3D ANIMATION

Andy Murdock, founder of the CGI house Lots of Robots, is a multi-Emmy-nominated visual effects supervisor and animator with over 30 years of experience in the field of 3D animation and scientific visualization. His work with National Geographic and the Discovery Channel on over a decade’s worth of film projects has been the ideal preparation for the virion simulations for Inside COVID19.

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN

James Jackson is a producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has spent the last five years creating critically acclaimed content across musical genres and artistic disciplines. A constant creative force James has composed music for a wide range of artists and artistic companies, from rappers and pop artists to dance and theatre companies, to scoring feature-length film scores.

STORY CONSULTANT

Howard Rose is the Co-Founder and CEO of Firsthand Technology, a pioneer in the field of Virtual Reality for over 20 years. Howard’s passion is to use creative technologies, like VR, for positive and lasting benefit. His groundbreaking work has shown that VR offers limitless possibilities to make us healthier and more productive. As a story consultant for “Inside COVID19” his insights in how to maximize story within this medium were invaluable.

CT SCAN ANIMATIONS

Whitney Lai is the Senior Virtual Reality Clinical Engineer at Surgical Theater. She created in-depth 360 CT scan visualizations models using the CT data from Josiah Child’s actual scans.

MEDIA OUTREACH

Cheryl Jagoda contributes strategic planning to branding and fundraising and is heading media outreach for the WisdomVR Project.

360 POST PRODUCTION

David Lawrence is a designer, producer, researcher and media artist with over 30 years of expertise in all aspects of digital media. His early work in the 1980s at Lucasfilm Ltd. includes pioneering research, design and production of innovative multimedia projects and tools that launched the interactive digital world we take for granted today.

SPATIAL AUDIO TOOLS

Charles Verron is one of the world’s foremost spatial audio software designers and founded Noisemakers.fr to create the suite of 3rd order ambisonic mixing tools we used to construct Inside COVID19’s rich immersive soundtrack. Certain ambisonic effects in the film were created using his procedural synthesis tools and he wrote custom software for us that provides new methods for spatial audio mixing.