Hornet's own Sam Mason brilliantly directed this Facebook's Year in Review 2018, continuing Hornet's longstanding relationship with Facebook. Unique in execution, this Year in Review is a randomized modular timeline serving over 1 billion users their content in 5 or 7 blocks of the total 13 “worlds” we were tasked to create.
Creatively, we were challenged to build these worlds to speak to the emotional resonance and universality of “family”, “friendship” and “travel”, amongst others. Technically, given the random and modular nature of these videos for Facebook’s 1 billion plus users, we had to create a system where they could be randomized. The end result represents the combined efforts of our extremely talented producers, artists and engineers both at Hornet and at Facebook - an intrinsically collaborative effort that we are incredibly proud of.
Production Co: Hornet
Director: Sam Mason
Executive Producer: Hana Shimizu
Head of Production: Sang-Jin Bae
Development Producer: Kristin Labriola
Producer: Dez Stavracos
Editor: Anita Chao
Production Coordinator: Riley Spencer
PRE PRODUCTION:
Storyboard Artist: Natalie Labarre
Designers: Sam Ballardini, Stephanie Davidson, Kim Dulaney, Claire Kho, Sarah Orenstein, Gonzalo Miranda, Gordon Waltho
DEV:
Lead Developer: David Poyner
Digital Producer: Nettie Tien
Lead Compositor: Ted Wiggin
Compositors: Heeyeon Chang, Haedeun Woo
CG: 
CG Lead: Eric Lane
Pipeline TD: Eric Cuhna
Modeler: Ivan Joy, Angeline Rivera
Texturer: Ivan Joy, Angeline Rivera, Rui Zhu
CG Layout Artist: Ivan Joy
Pre-Viz: Arsen Arzumanyan
Rigger: Eduardo Enriquez
CG Sim/FX: Gabe Askew, Lori Hamasaki
Lighting & Rendering: Manuel Riedl, Susie Hong, Kwan Au, Oliver Castle, Dan Fine, Eric Cuhna, Nick Tustin
Compositors: Sang Lee, Fred Kim, Matt DeFranco, Carl Mok, Herculano Fernandes, Kelly Bruce, Jason Tsang, Sylvia Apostol, Rachel Rardin
Camera: Arsen Arzumanyan
Animators: Jonathan Muller, Michael Sime, Jared Eng, Doug Litos
Matte Painter: Gordon Waltho, Natalie Labarre
AUDIO:
Sound Design and Mix:  Barking Owl
Creative Director:  Kelly Bayett
Producer:  KC Dossett
Sound Designer:  Morgan Johnson
Mixer:  Mike Franklin
Assistant:  Eolyne Arnold
CLIENT:
Facebook