It’s rare that your inner child is bursting at the seams when you work on a project, but knowing I was about to work with The Ultimate Warrior was one of those awesome days.

When 2K Sports took over the development of the WWE games in 2014, they decided to give fans a chance to relive their favorite WrestleMania matches. When The Ultimate Warrior heard the news, he took it upon himself to show up at 2k headquarters to spread the news to the masses.

A couple of fun facts about this work:

• Ultimate Warrior changed his legal name to just “warrior” so his plane ticket read “ Warrior. Warrior “ because he had no last name.

• Warrior has always made his own hand painted dusters, for this shoot he made two jackets for the day because he was so excited to shoot with us.

• The Ultimate Warrior arrived to set and quickly told our make-up crew that he is the only person that can do the warrior make-up. So he asked the make-up crew to just hang out with him while he did his make-up and told them stories about wrestling.

• The Ultimate Warrior was an amazing enigma. He was like a bad ass Gary Busy. He made the lines up as he went, he was brutally honest, and he was just a very sweet person to work with. God rest his warrior soul …