WHAT’S YOUR WARRIOR?


/ United States Army

/ About

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.

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/ Credits

Live Action Production:

Director: John Likens

Director of Photography: Adam Carboni

Producer: Rich Schwab

Production Supervisor: Jon Simonetta

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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
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Managing Director: 
Jesse Kurnit
Executive Producer: 
Adrienne Mitchell


Senior Producer: 
Emily Schaeberle, James McEvitt


Production Coordinators: 
Jen Fahey, Olivia Vitagliano



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Color by Company 3:

Senior Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld

Producer: Blake Rice