Australian Defence Force
Make Your Impact
UI Design Suite
Collider Studio was tasked with bringing to life the entirety of the VFX within the ADF’s Make Your Impact campaign. Directed by renowned filmmaker Rupert Sanders (Ghost in the Shell, Snow White and the Huntsman), the tri-service campaign was one of the ADF’s largest campaigns ever undertaken and involved a huge degree of planning across the Army, Navy and Air Force divisions. The naturalistically-styled stories feature a full spectrum of military personnel on and off duty and were shot over nine days at multiple locations around Australia.
Many of the key story beats of the campaign involved shooting scenes that included graphical interfaces to assist the storytelling. Studio invested a lot of pre-production time (in collaboration with VML and ADF) concepting, designing and refining a large suite of UI assets to be featured as much as possible in-camera.
All the UI designs needed to walk a fine line between fact and fiction. With careful consultation with the ADF, we were able to find a happy medium between interfaces that felt close to the real thing, without overstepping any classified ADF security requirements.
Credits.
VFX and Post Production: Collider Studio
VFX Creative Director: Andrew van der Westhuyzen
Managing Partner & EP: Rachel Ford-Davies
EP/Producer: Ben Scandrett-Smith
Production Manager: Christa Harter
Production Coord: Christiana Roberts
DOP: Jeremy Rouse
1st AD: Jeremy fitz
1st AC: Nick Jackson
Gaffer (NSW): Scott Leeson
Gaffer (QLD): Glenn Jones
Grip (NSW): Jason Trew
Grip (QLD): Nic Karam
Production Designer: Alex Holmes
Art Director: Sophie Nash
BTS: Alice Adlide
Production Assistant: Suzie Boros
Assistant to Director: Gracie Steindl
Editor: Adam Wills
Colourist: Billy Wychgel
Head of 3D: David Sujono
3D Artist Glenn Stewart
3D Artist: Lisa Meinesz
Post Producer: Hoss Ghonouie
Flame Artist: Eugene Richards
VFX Supervisor: David Wood
Original Music: Big Sync Music
Sound Design: Abby Sie
Sound Producer: Katrina Aquilia
Creative Agency: VML
Senior Account Director: Sarah Latremoille
Senior Account Manager: Charlotte Kuster
Lead Producer: Melissa Herbert
Producer: Stevi Russell
Creative Director: Robyn Bergman
Art Director: Taylor Aranki
Account Manager: Jess Osrin
You can see a lot more of this campaign including how we created the VFX elements for it below.
