“The Researcher” is a Sci Fi Thriller/Horror Short Film In which an astronaut researcher arriving at a space colony discovers that her only colleague is not who she appears to be.

Our team was made up of two animation students, two sound design students and Antoni and me who took care of the vfx of this project.

We discussed all together about ideas and how to proceed, we firstly made the storyboard and we followed it step by step.

For the realisation of this project I have practiced on several tutorials in order to achieve some visual effects:

In this scene, I had to recreate a space environment, I used a HDRI image of the milky way as the skydom.I recreated two planets, the main one had to have the appearance of Mars, creating two spheres and applying textures manages to obtain an excellent result for a previs.

Both planets are surrounded by an atmosphere, created with Volume on maya.

Working on this project was very useful and interesting. We worked as a team trying to reach the established goals, even if we had some problems along the way.