Timothy Albee, Creator of "Kaze, Ghost Warrior"

Could you put together an animated pilot film? Two thousand of miles from your previous animation work location? In the Alaskan wilderness? In six months? For $5000? By yourself?
Timothy Albee did it, partly to tell a story steeped in the ways of the bushido honor code.
Partly to put a thumb in the eye of the corporate animation industry and prove that a quality project could be completed in a short amount of time without a giant budget, and with a small team (a team of one, in this case).
The result was "Kaze, Ghost Warrior," a 22-minute animated short depicting a world populated by anthropomorphic animals in a land reminiscent of feudal Japan. He created the story, the 3d models and animation, even the music and all of the voices. At the same time, he produced a book on the process of low-budget, high quality 3-D animation, a lip-syncing tool (with the aid of KURV Studios) and a rendering technique to draw realistic looking CG fur in a fraction of the time it would normally take.