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Interstellar Backup

By Skye Stout
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A cover for the film Interstellar Backup shows a fiery portal

This film has a "digital actor," who plays the role of the alien. If you saw Alliance Arrival, this will seem familiar, because it builds on it.

We used a combination of props: a table, plastic crates and set lighting. The "drill" was a white LED light guitar pick inside a rubber stamp maker, which rattled around and flashed.

Photoshop works well for editing concept art, and you can then layer it in DaVinci Resolve. At one point the prop fell forward toward me. Sometimes emotions happen in real time, and then I just go with it if it fits the plan.

Watch Interstellar Backup on Vimeo (8:53).

Set designs

In the film studio. These made it into the film after edits.

On set in the film studio
In the film studio
Set table and crates
Set pieces
Stasis chamber interior concept
Stasis chamber concept
Aft bulkhead concept
Aft bulkhead
Aboard ship still
Aboard ship

Concept transfer node

Jose gave the ideas for this design: an upside-down pyramid transfer node.

Upside-down pyramid transfer node
Upside-down pyramid transfer node

Watch the transfer-node motion study ("The Little Satellite").

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