Clover Fodder
Clover Fodder is the result of a 'special effects' module from my BSc course, in which we were given the task of adding 3D elements and effects to video footage.
The premise was to create some sort of alien invader dropping into a group of people and wreaking havok. For my project I decided to use monster, it's design is heavily influenced by the 'Cloverfield' monster.
The final piece was created in After Effects, using the rendered frames from Maya and placing these over the top of the video footage. The effects were created relatively simply by using a combination of filters and masks to give the impression of camera focus, glows, fades etc.
The cockpit scene was built in 3 layers; a background image (showing the internals of the cockpit), the actual video footage (on a green screen that was chroma-keyed) and a layer with chairs (animated to match the movements of the characters in the scene).