He had no idea what was behind that door.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.