Domesticated — Short Film by Emma Bading, screened at Hofer Filmtage 2024

For Domesticated I animated a 3D spider to move naturally through a live-action scene.

On-set tracking markers were removed in Nuke, and the environment – the pipe the spider crawls out of – was modeled in Blender to match the original footage. Lighting was matched using a LiDAR scan of the location, so the spider would sit correctly in the space. The animated spider was exported and tracked onto the original footage in Nuke, with the pipeline kept in log color space throughout to stay consistent through grading.