Olivia Dawson

**Olivia Dawson** is a Canadian director, artist, and YouTuber. She is Jakob Dawson's sister and voiced Pik-pik in their Pikmin plush series Twig & Pik-pik, which ran for 10 years from 2011 to 2021, and also voiced several characters in Jakob's other Pikmin plush shows. Olivia and Jakob built NERV Productions after graduating from university to tell narratives and deliver truth about the environment.

Over the years she has collaborated with Jakob on various projects, including all of his Pikmin plush shows. In her youth, Olivia worked in many artistic realms such as fashion, photography, music, acting, and film. After spending time working in Vancouver’s bustling film industry and graduating university, she teamed up with her brother at NERV Productions to provide her artistic vision. She specialises in abstract conventions and aesthetics, but is also skilled in the practical, foundational aspects of film production.

Olivia is inspired by the intersection of different art forms to create a thought provoking moment on screen– and hopes to do just this at NERV with her expertise. She is also conscious about the local environment and wishes to use NERV as an outlet to help experts educate on the climate crisis.

## History

### Early life

Olivia Dawson was born in Vancouver, Canada on December 8th 1998, over a year after her brother Jakob was born. In the 1990s, Olivia and Jakob's great-grandfather was working with Konami to make a golf arcade game that functioned exactly the same as Wii Sports Golf. Although the project fell apart, it became the reason why Japan became so intertwined in Olivia and Jakob's lives.

### Career

On January 7th 2011, Olivia and Jakob created the Pikmin plush series Twig & Pik-pik, which went on to become one of the most popular and most influential Pikmin plush shows of all time. She voiced the deuteragonist Pik-pik in the majority of the episodes of the series, and remained a regular cast member until the series concluded in October 2021. Olivia also voiced characters in Jakob's other Pikmin plush shows, including The Steve Saga, Search for Mother, Starlight Platinum, and Pikmin Plush: The World. Some of her other notable roles in Jakob's plush videos include voicing Blossom in Twig & Pik-pik and Skye in Starlight Platinum. Around this time she also worked in many artistic realms such as fashion, photography, music, acting, and film.

After studying film in university and graduating, Olivia and Jakob founded the NERV Productions film production company in 2017, which built itself out of the Motion Picture Arts program at Capilano University. With a passion for story-telling, the goal of the company is to help others in capturing and sharing the moments that matter most. Olivia and Jakob work as producers at the company. Olivia specialises in abstract conventions and aesthetics, but is also skilled in the practical, foundational aspects of film production. She is inspired by the intersection of different art forms to create a thought provoking moment on screen– and hopes to do just this at NERV with her expertise. Olivia is also conscious about the local environment and wishes to use NERV as an outlet to help experts educate on the current climate crisis.

## Influence on the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe

As the co-creator of Twig & Pik-pik, Olivia was one of several Pikmin content creators to inspire Peter Tagg to create his own Pikmin plush shows, leading to the creation of the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe. The character Olivia, the sister of Steve, was named after her and partly inspired by Pik-pik. In 2015, Olivia reprised her role as Pik-pik in the Trooper Village Stories episode Noah 2: Thorn's Wrath, appearing in two cameo scenes.