A Little Help
In collaboration with WPP, X&O, and director Ulf Johansson, our VFX team turned Melissa McCarthy into a pint-sized elf in need of “elf-care” in Verizon’s holiday campaign.
Credits
Client
Verizon
Agency
X&O
Founder and CCO
Eric Segal
Creative Directors
Anthony Falco, Matt Walton
Agency
WPP Production
Chief Production Officer, North America
Tim LeGallo
Executive Producer
Jessica Coccaro
Head of Production Services, North America
Jess Nugent
WPP Global Growth Lead
Lyndsey Corona
Executive Group Director
Madeline LaRocca
Senior Account Director
Gabriel Phillips
Senior Business Affairs Manager
Grace Kelly
Delivery Manager
Priscilla Colon
Production Company
Smith & Jones
Director
Ulf Johansson
Executive Producer
Philippa Smith
DP
Andrzej Sekula
Production Designer
Steve Smithwick
VFX
Framestore
Creative Directors
Kamen Markov, Andy Rowan-Robinson
On-Set VFX Supervisor
Will Frazier
Head of Studio
Tara Maloney
Head of Production
Nathan Niamehr
Executive Producer
Alexia Paterson
Senior Producer
Sue McNamara
Producer
Rebecca Schmidt
Coordinator
Anthony Delasanta
Flame Leads
Zimei Song, Margolit Steiner, Chih Peng
Flame Finishing
Devon Taylor, Andre Vidal, Anton Anderson, Ethan Chang
Compositors
Alex Ling, Ari Garber, Craig Tozzi, Dan Giraldo, David Dam, David De Leon, Dhruv Shankar, Ethan Chang, Gerard Andal, J Bush, Jaimie Park, Kyle Andal, Matt DeFranco, Nathaniel Mosemann, Nicholas Sorenson, Yilin Lai
Digital Matte Painting
Ivo Horvat
Designers
Daniel Petersen, John Haley, Dan Moore, Daniella Tomlinson
CG Layout
Jass Tsai
Color
Company 3
Colorist
Tim Masick
Head of Production
Edward Rill
Senior Color Producer
Colleen Valentino
Associate Color Producer
Morgan Coyle-Howard
Color Operations Manager
Mena Smith
Color Assistants
Stephen Winterhalter, Quinn Wright, Christina Miller
Editorial
Mackcut
Editors
Ian MacKenzie, Pamela Petruski, James Duffy
Assistant Editors
Zach Gentry, Daniela Rodriguez, Autumn Stelzer
Executive Producer
Gina Pagano
Offline Producer
Kayla Robinson