The idea for this shot came to me as I was watching the series "DARK", when Jonas wanders through the post apocalyptic wasteland that has become his city. I tried to capture this eery yet beautiful athmosphere that our protagonist resonates with. I shot this project on a huge beach called L'Espiguette, with the intent to create a large scale set extention. Regarding the matchmove, everything went pretty smoothly. It is in compositing that I stumbled on a few obstacles: the fullbody roto of the actor (as there was no greenscreen), the integration of the CG backpack and the matte painting. I also had issues with the Czech hedgehogs as I rendered them all on one layer and lost some time creating masks for each layer of the image. I considered using deep to solve this issue however the dip in performance would have been too much of a hassle for it to be worth it. Overall I am very happy with how this shot turned out and I look forward to the next large scale set extention !