DETRO - Short film

(Yeah, so Dante is cliche, whatever.)

A year-and-a-half in the making (off and on), DETRO is finally here. No more hand-held tracking and fully virtual sets for a while. I've had my fill. 

Watch it below!

Thanks to Dee Langstone for the fight choreography. Not much in the way of a plot here, so Dee deserves story and some directing credit. 

Thanks to Coach Eli and James Smiley of Smiley's gym for training our guys. 

Thanks to Tripp Turner and Jason Howe for enduring a month of conditioning and fight training. Tripp and I have been making films together for about 20 years and Jason has been on board for the last 10. This is probably the most we've asked of them and they delivered. 

Thanks to Jay Stockton and Anthony Calloway for making the trek over to GWC studio for relatively small (but important) roles. 

Thanks to Victor Jones for shouldering most of the dialogue. 

Thanks to Thomas Amason for taking what was basically a silent film in front of a green screen and creating an entire sound environment to support the visuals. 

Thanks to Nicholas Whitfield for the cinematic score. Check out his music here .

Thanks to our gore-master Jeh Howell from Factory Of Effects. Always good to have him on set.

Thanks to Sean Shea for shooting this thing. My back hurt just from watching him. 

Thanks to Al James for creating all of the materials and dealing with my messy, kit-bashed 3D models. Also, big help with the character rigging and fire simulations. 

Thanks to Karyn Rollins for creating the opening title card. 

Lastly, thanks to the team at GWC studio for facilitating this experiment. An unfortunate series of upper management missteps has almost certainly doomed the studio's existence, but I'm grateful for the time and resources. 

Corina and I are cutting the next short now with an eye on Halloween season for release.