Digital Domain and Mothership on Medal of Honor

Digital Domain and its commercial production company Mothership have produced the emotional new music video from Linkin Park, “Castle of Glass”, created for the launch of Electronic Arts’ Medal of Honor Warfighter game. The piece features live action, gameplay, cinematics and sophisticated CG video. The game is released on October 23.

 

Teams at Mothership and Digital Domain were deeply involved in production of cinematics and content for the Medal of Honor Warfightergame itself when EA asked them to partner and produce Linkin Park’s video, working with Directors Drew Stauffer and Jerry O’Flaherty.

 

True to the Medal of Honor philosophy, “Castle of Glass” highlights the emotional realities soldiers and their families face far from the battlefield. Stauffer and O’Flaherty developed the concept around the all-too-familiar story of a child learning from a military officer that his father has been killed in battle. While his life is torn apart, the military community surrounds and supports him through the overwhelming process of healing and rebuilding. 

 

Mothership and Digital Domain worked with the directors to shoot live action dramatic sequences and Linkin Park performing against green screen. Digital Domain created ‘the void,’ an otherworldly place representing the chaotic state of the child’s mind, complete with violent storms that rain shattered glass. They also created a completely computer-generated version of the live-action living room shot for the piece, which cracks and shatters around Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda as the emotional core of the story breaks loose. Gameplay action was captured and virtual humans in the cinematics were created by Digital Domain and Mothership in the company’s in-house virtual production studio. 

 

To view a making-of click here

 

PRODUCTION CREDITS 

 

Title: Linkin Park “Castle of Glass” Music Video

Directed by: Drew Stauffer & Jerry O’Flaherty

Client: Electronic Arts

 

Executive Producer, Medal of Honor: Greg Goodrich                                   

Director of Post Production: Drew Stauffer                                    

 

Production Company: Mothership

Directors: Drew Stauffer & Jerry O’Flaherty                               

Chief Executive Officer: Ed Ulbrich                                           

Executive Producer: Rich Flier                                            

Head of Production: Scott Gemmell                                     

Producer: Tiffani Manabat                                  

Line Producer: Kim Monaco                                        

Director of Photography: Pete Konzcal                                       

 

Visual Effects and Animation by: Digital Domain 

Chief Executive Officer: Ed Ulbrich                                           

Executive Producer: Rich Flier                                            

Head of Production: Scott Gemmell                                    

VFX Supervisor: Richard S. Morton                              

CG Supervisor: David Liu                                            

VFX Producer: James Taylor                                      

VFX Coordinator: Katryna Shattuck                               

Matte Painter: Dark Hoffman                                     

Digital Artist: Brandon Webb                                   

Digital Artist: Michael La Fave                                 

Digital Artist: Christopher Romano                          

Roto Artist: David Wilson                                      

Roto Artist: Heidrun Haroldstottir                          

Roto Artist: Marcel Martins                                    

Lead Nuke Compositor: Barry Berman                                     

Nuke Compositor: Lenz Kol                                             

Nuke Compositor: Peter Sidoriak                                     

Nuke Compositor: Dave Takayama                                 

Nuke Compositor: Scott Hale                                           

Tracking: Michael Lori                                        

Tracking: Roxanne Zuckermann                        

Tracking: John Aghassian                                 

Tracking: Eugene Colescott                               

Online Editor: Lisa Tomei                                          

 

Editorial by: Whitehouse Post

Executive Producer: Joni Williamson                                   

Editor: Josh Bodnar                                       

Assistant Editors: Shane Ried & Collin Davis