For Digital Brew’s monthly newsletter series What’s New With the Brew Crew, the team conceptualized a video with the theme of alien abductions. For the full concept of the video to work, they needed VFX shots of an alien abduction, so they had me create these shots for the full video!

This project challenged me to composite CGI into live action footage, something I had not done much of before. I worked hard to match the lighting of the spaceship to the video footage, so it integrated perfectly into the scene.

Another technique I learned in making these shots was photogrammetry. With the app Polycam, I did a photo scan of my friend who is featured in the video, to create a 3D representation of him in the scene.

Watch the full video here!

Tools: Cinema 4D, Redshift, After Effects, Polycam

Timeline: 3-4 Days

Credits

Producer: Jacob Oliver

Cinematographers: Brent Mayorca, Sean Benson

Editor: Ally Nichols

VFX/CG: Max Calarco