WHEEL OF TIME ORIGINS, SEASON 1

A series of animated shorts created to accompany Amazon’s 2021 release of the fantasy series, adapted from Robert Jordan’s award winning Wheel of Time.

I was brought on by MPC Episodic and Amazon to direct these films by highlighting lore from the Wheel of Time world in a fresh way for diehard fans and those new to the franchise. The series brief began with the iconography of paintings: telling stories within the frame. From there it was all about bringing these frames to life and adapting the scripts and lore from the books within this beautiful medium.

The series is now streaming on Prime Video.


CREDITS

Directed by Dan DiFelice

Executive Producers
Rafe Judkins
Mike Weber
Craig Muller

Producers
Jakub Chilczuk
Rory Knight-Jones

Written by
Rammy Park
Dan DiFelice

Starring
Daniel Henney
Rick Wasserman
Scott Kim
Zori Lee

Narration by
Evelyn Miller
Ida May
Rupert Degas
Steven Hartley

Animation by MPC Episodic

Edited by Ryan Beck, Jamie Foord, Dan DiFelice
Composer Luke Atencio
Sound Design by Jonathan Ware

Executive Producers
Christopher Grey
Pete Jopling
David Brown

Associate Producer Jasmine Foord-Elgood

VFX Supervisors Milos Milosevic, Francois Roisin
Art Director Gurel Mehmet
Paint Lead Ed Loverock Babb

Storyboards by David Ok, Tomasz Kossak
Character Concepts by Eve Ventrue, Serhii Kasianchuk
Concepts by Roman Lutsenko, Morgan Yon, Ed Loverock Babb, Laszlo Szabados, Arthur Yuan, Lixin Yin, Vladimir Motsar
Paintings by Jonas Hassibi, Laszlo Szabados, Sungjin Kim, Arash Razavi, Cedric Peyravernay, Anthony Jones, David Jones, Pawel Hordyniak, Daniel Alekow, Stanislav Dikolenko, Jesse Rist, Giorgio Grecu, Miklos Ligeti, Adam Burn, Burak Kirk, Sergey Musin

Animation Lead Darryl White
2D Supervisor - Niki Ryan
Compositing Lead - Thomas Greenhalgh

Colorists Mikey Rossiter, Andrew Ceen, Mikey Pehanich, Sam Howells