As my first personal project after completing university I decided to make a flying saucer fly through the Cardiff city skyline. It would give me the chance to add CG elements to real footage, because it was something I hadn’t done much of in Uni.

The U.F.O was modelled and textured in Maya, rendered using Renderman and comped in Nuke.

Final version

Compositing breakdown

Flying saucer turnaround

Final version

Compositing breakdown

Flying saucer turnaround