Personal film · proof of concept · 2026

Astronaut

He had no idea what was behind that door.

Year
2026
Format
Personal film · 16:9 · 16s
Role
Direction, art direction, VFX and compositing
Tools
Image and video AI · Chroma key · After Effects

A real actor shot on green screen, with an entire world built in AI. A corridor, windows, a gas giant outside — and the hangar at the end of the path.

Everything you see around him was built from scratch with AI. The astronaut is the only real thing.

Process_

From brief to final frame
01 Idea

Answering with images the question every production asks

Can generative imagery be integrated with footage that was actually shot? The film is the test: an actor in a white suit, a green stage, and an entire non-existent world built around him.

02 Concept

Architecture before atmosphere

The ship is designed before it's made beautiful: where the windows sit, where the corridor leads, what you see outside. Without that plan, every generated shot returns a different ship and the space falls apart at the cut.

03 Plates

The world, shot by shot

Architectural design of the ship, empty corridor, corridor with the ringed giant in the window, and the opening frames that establish the point of view at the door. Each plate is an environment resolved before any movement.

04 Compositing

The real inside the generated

Chroma extraction, light and atmosphere integration, and matching perspective between the filmed actor and the generated environment. This is the step where AI stops being a pretty image and becomes a film shot.

05 Breakdown

The whole path, side by side

On one side, a guy in a white suit walking through a green stage. On the other, the same guy heading to the hangar. Everything that happened in between.

Breakdown — raw × final

Everything you see around him was built from scratch with AI. The astronaut is the only real thing.