Jeffrey Panza

Jeff is an Electrical and Computer Engineering major who graduated in 2009 with his Bachelor's Degree and plans to get his Master's Degree in 2010. He created the concept and story for the project, did some research in fluids and particles for use in the animation, and fully animated the final scenes of the animation.

Lauren Hecht

Lauren is an Art major who graduated in 2009 and was the token artist for Life Cycle. She focused on animating the bulk of the scenes and most notably edited and composited all the material for the project, blending together the different materials of the main character seamlessly. Also, she built the main character's blend shapes.

Madeleine Pitsch

Madeleine is a Computer Science major who graduated in 2009, and the Maya Guru for the project: helping the team with animating and dealing with Maya's many flaws. She also took care of most of the technical work on the assignment herself, figuring out ideas on how to combine our separate parts as seamlessly as possible, and designing the main characters complex soft body design.

Erin McCarty

Erin is a Computer Science major who plans on graduating in 2010. She made this website for the project, did a lot of work with Spline IKs and animated what is now alternative animation for the young blob scenes.