Walt Disney Pictures
The Mark Gordon Company
Joe Johnston
Lasse Hollstrom
Tabitha Denholm

end title sequence and graphic animated visual effects

Shine was honored to work with Tabitha Denholm and Joe Johnston on “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” for Walt Disney Pictures and the The Mark Gordon Company. Footage from a special live action shoot with ballet superstar Misty Copeland and dance phenom Lil Buck was combined with the graphic design and graphic animation to create the sequence.

All Clara wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer’s annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It’s there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip, a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger, to retrieve Clara’s key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world.