Mini "martians"

ABSTRACT

The aliens arrive in London. The Mini sees them and leads them on a chase to the countryside, obliterating various landmarks along the way. The pod gets stuck in a cattlegrid and topples, revealing its alien driver. "The challenge for Passion's CG department was twofold," says Cara Speller. "Firstly, we had to match the camera tracking in the animation to the live action, and secondly we had to render the animation to film resolution, which meant we had to upgrade our render farm." The animation was produced using Lightwave and Messiah, and Digital Fusion was used for the test compositing.