DDB Agency asked me what I would do with the third chapter of their famous ‘What’s Your Warrior?’ campaign for the U.S. Army. My answer would involve a full live-action shoot with both actors and active military soldiers, a previz motion capture session, research/photogrammetry visits to multiple Army bases, and creating a workflow to leverage traditional VFX pipeline tools with the new real-time capabilities of Unreal Engine 5.
In the end, we created 4 unique films. Go Army.
/ Credits
Live Action Production:
Director: John Likens
Director of Photography: Adam Carboni
Producer: Rich Schwab
Production Supervisor: Jon Simonetta
__
Method Studios Post Production:
Executive Creative Director:
John Likens
VFX Supervisor:
Ivan Guerrero
CG Supervisors:
Brian Dinoto, Alex Cheparev
Compositing Supervisor:
Alex Gomez
Compositors:
Frank Fieser, Sam Jorgenson, Jeric Pimentel, Phil Massimino,
Brett Reyenger, Patcharaorn Thavornwatanayon
Flame Artists:
Mark Popham, Chris Hunt, Larry Merrill
FX Supervisor:
Tomas Slancik
FX Artists:
David Derwin, Alejandro Echeverry, Vraja Parra
Editor:
Doron Dor, Ryan Todd
Senior Lighter:
Irene Kim
CG Lighters:
Claire Ya-Wen Chang, Erwin Riau
VFX Artists:
Caleb Ollivant, Da Suel Kim, Orges Kokoshari, Han Chin Lee,
Mark Yagos, Rick Fronek, Stephen Mann
Animators:
Tim Ranck, Daniel Patterson, Anderson Ko,
Bradley Morris, Paul Wei, Doug Rappin
Unreal Environmental Artist:
Mateus Kurzhals
Associate Creative Directors:
Wesley Ebelhar, Ivan Girard, Felix Soletic
Art Directors:
Ihsu Yoon, Keri Moller, Toros Kose
Designers:
Vinnie Thomas, Craig Stouffer, Alex Iselin
Matte Painters:
Daniel Bayona, Mark Roland
Storyboards:
James Randolph, Keith Morange, Kensuke Okabayashi
__
Managing Director:
Jesse Kurnit
Executive Producer:
Adrienne Mitchell
Senior Producer:
Emily Schaeberle, James McEvitt
Production Coordinators:
Jen Fahey, Olivia Vitagliano
__
Color by Company 3:
Senior Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld
Producer: Blake Rice