Jerry Schmitz is the author of numerous "art-of " books that chronicle the making of such films as The Wild Robot , The Peanuts Movie , Surf's Up , Trolls , and Shrek Forever After . Most recently, he wrote the art book for the live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon . Schmitz began his career in film in 1993 at Steven Spielberg's production company Amblin Entertainment and has been a part of the DreamWorks family since its inception in 1994. He is a graduate of the University of Dayton (MA, BA) and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). Writers and directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, and producer Mark Swift, are the filmmaking team behind the critically acclaimed Academy Award-nominated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish , following their first collaboration on the feature film The Croods: A New Age . Crawford and Mercado began their careers with DreamWorks Animation as story artists on Kung Fu Panda 2 . In his thirty-plus-year career with DreamWorks Animation, Swift has produced some of the most successful films in the studio's history. Writers and directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, and producer Mark Swift, are the filmmaking team behind the critically acclaimed Academy Award-nominated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish , following their first collaboration on the feature film The Croods: A New Age .

Crawford and Mercado began their careers with DreamWorks Animation as story artists on Kung Fu Panda 2 . In his thirty-plus-year career with DreamWorks Animation, Swift has produced some of the most successful films in the studio's history. H.E.R. is a five-time Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-winning, and Emmy Award-winning musical artist, actor, director, and producer. She is best known for her Grammy Award-winning project H.E.

R. , and she continues to expand her artistic reach in music and film. In 2021, she received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "I Can't Breathe" and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Fight for You," written for Judas and the Black Messiah . Liza Soberano is a Filipino American actress who made her Hollywood feature film debut in Focus Features' Lisa Frankenstein . A multi-hyphenate with a large following in the Philippines, she is best known for her roles in the romantic comedy My Ex and Whys (2017) and the drama series Alone/Together (2019), and for voicing the title character in Netflix's animated series Trese . Writers and directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, and producer Mark Swift, are the filmmaking team behind the critically acclaimed Academy Award-nominated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish , following their first collaboration on the feature film The Croods: A New Age . Crawford and Mercado began their careers with DreamWorks Animation as story artists on Kung Fu Panda 2 . In his thirty-plus-year career with DreamWorks Animation, Swift has produced some of the most successful films in the studio's history.