<-- Behind the Scenes

Molecularium™ Riding Snowflakes 

A Nanotoon Production

Made Possible by a Grant from
The National Science Foundation

Developed At
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

In Collaboration with
The Children's Museum of Science and Technology

Directed By
V Owen Bush

Produced By
Kurt Przybilla

Written By
V Owen Bush
Kurt Przybilla

Executive Producers
Shekhar Garde
Linda S. Schadler
Richard W. Siegel

Character Animator
Steve Rein

Visual FX Supervisor
Blake Holland

Director of Photography
Joshua Minges

Creative Director
Chris Harvey

Character Designer
Leona Christie

Animators
Rafael Alcala
Justin Rosen

Lead Simulator
Harshit Patel

Songs
Jason Martin
Nikolas Van Egten

Score
Toshio Kajiwara

Sound Design & Engineering
Stephan Moore
Jesse Stiles

- Cast -

Rachel Brod as Oxy
Kurt Przybilla as Mel
Dennis Del Zotto as Hydro
Shelley Hirsch as Hydra
Derek Sweeney-Kesler as Carbón
Nikolas Van Egten as C2
V Owen Bush as C3

Wanda Felicia-Pittman as Oxy's Singing Voice
Brittney Grob as Oxy's Singing Voice
Ricardo Picon as Carbón's Singing Voice

Caterina De Re as Alert Voice
and Introducing
Justin Rosen as the Chewer

Technical Directors
Blake Holland
Joshua Minges

Editor / Composite Artist
V Owen Bush

Senior Scientific Advisors
Shekhar Garde
Linda S. Schadler

Molecular Simulations
Manoj Athawale
Monica Berrondo
Shekhar Garde
Sandeep Jain
Harshit Patel
Sowmi Rajamani

Associate Animators
Stephen Mackenzie
Stephanie Siebert

Sound Recording & Editing
Werner F
Ian Funk
Hanuman Goleman

Video Engineers
Johnny Dekam
Derek Sweeney-Kesler

Systems Administrators
Manoj Athawale
Harshit Patel
Yan Shoshitaishvili

Custom Programming
Blake Holland
Joshua Minges
Daniel F. Ott
Justin Rosen
Erik Wesselak

Microscopy
Ray Dove
Robert Hanna

Contributing Artists
Benton-C Bainbridge
Bill Etra

Production Assistants
Hanuman Goleman
Sahithi Reddigari
Justin Rosen

Scientific Advisors
Pulickel M Ajayan
Daniel Gall
Pawel Keblinski
Richard W. Siegel

Production Consultant
Karen McCarthy

Production Consultation
Rose Center Production
American Museum of Natural History

Digital-Dome Consultants
D'nardo Colucci
David McConville

Educational Consultants
Jayne Architzel
Tracey Bennett
Deirdre Schadler
Linda S. Schadler
Lisa Scorzelli

Casting Assistance
Ulysses Terrero

Business Administrator
Danielle Belser

Project Administrators
Damian Huising
Nancy Rysedorph

Story & Characters Created By
V Owen Bush
Kurt Przybilla

A Nanotoon Production

- Songs -

"H2O"
Written By Bush/Przybilla/Van Egten
Composed & Arranged By Nikolas Van Egten

"3 States Of Matter"
Written By Bush/Harvey/Przybilla/Van Egten
Arranged By Stephan Moore & Jesse Stiles

"Billions & Billions"
Written By Bush/Martin/Przybilla
Composed & Arranged By Jason Martin

"So Small"
Written By Bush/Przybilla/Van Egten
Composed & Arranged By Nikolas Van Egten

"Carbon Is Incredible"
Written By Bush/Przybilla/Van Egten
Composed & Arranged By Nikolas Van Egten

"Atoms Are Amazing"
Written By Bush/Przybilla/Van Egten
Composed & Arranged By Nikolas Van Egten

Images Provided By
freestockphotos.com
freeimages.co.uk

Aerial and Satellite Photography Provided By
globexplorer.com

Snowflake Images Provided By
Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley

Special Thanks!

Accelerated Servers
American Museum of Natural History
Digitalis Educational Solutions
the Elumenati
Tetratops
Vidvox

Michael Addario
Theresa Bourgeois
Igor Broos
Mary Cimo
Veronica Fitzgerald-Kaedy
Paul Fredette
Delcy Fox
Les Gerhardt
Ken Gertz
John Kolb
David Haviland
Hon. Shirley Ann Jackson
Joe Michaels
Bud Peterson
Val Peterson
Chuck Rancourt
Richard Scammel
Monica Simon
Maggie Vinciguerra
Michael Wacholder

Mark Bajuk
Anthony Braun
Carter Emmerich
Myles Gordon
Josh Harris
Mara Haseltine
Walter "Bud" Mahoney
Tomek Rabalski
Jason Sinopoli
Tom Sinopoli
Erik Wesselak

Lalalandia 2077
the Omnisensorialist Federation
and the people of Troy New York

Developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures

In Collaboration with
The Children's Museum of Science and Technology

Funded by the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Initiative
of the National Science Foundation
under NSF Award Number DMR-0117792

© 2005 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The Production, Characters and Logos used herein
are the Sole Property of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute