Concept Development
Using the “Balloon Festival” as a narrative backdrop, integrating Pink Floyd’s iconic surrealist elements such as the “Animals” factory/pig and “The Division Bell” stone heads.
3D Asset Creation
Recreated classic balloon models in Blender, including the flying pig, metallic stone heads, and the cow.
Nuke Compositing Workflow
I utilized 2D tracking on the mountain plates to accurately position the 3D assets, integrating them into the environment using LightWrap and a custom ground fog created with Noise and Roto nodes. I also used AI to generate and animate the handshake footage from a static reference, which I then keyed using Keylight and refined with HueCorrect nodes for a clean matte. To pull the final shot together, I applied a lens-matched Defocus and a Kodak 5248 Grain overlay to unify the disparate elements into a single cinematic image.