Stand-In
A performer in a gray suit walks out of a birch wood and rests a hand on a woman’s shoulder. In the final he is a figure of woven willow. She stays as she was in the plate.
Slide across the frame to compare the plate and the final.
The shot
The plate is a locked-off shot at the edge of a misty birch wood at dusk. A stand-in in a gray suit with tracking markers steps out from the trees, walks up behind a woman and rests a gloved hand on her shoulder, and she closes her eyes. In the final, the stand-in is a tall figure of woven willow and moss, and its twig fingers rest on her shawl.
How it was made
I designed the creature first. Then I generated the plate, ungraded, with the stand-in performing every beat, and posed the creature on a reference plate to match his final pose. A video-to-video pass recast only the stand-in, from that creature plate, and held the woman to a frame of the plate, so her face, her timing and the camera match the plate. I tested the method on an earlier plate before making this one.
Spec work, not commissioned.
- Made as
- VFX breakdown, spec
- Role
- Director, Plate design, Creature design, VFX, Grade
- Year
- 2026
- Tools
- Higgsfield Genjutsu, Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2.5
