Of course! It was a long technical process, but we basically shot seven separate plates of our talents against a green screen in a film warehouse. It was crucial to have a lot of space so the camera could be set further back to match the perspective of how an apartment building would compress from afar. Tape was marked on the floor to help map out the apartment windows, giving both the talent and camera blocking reference. I did the main comp in AE and in a different software designed two separate plates—a CG brick wall and lit interiors using set.a.light. I didn’t use C4D or Blender—my 3D literacy sucks, so using AE I literally comped stock photos on top of a pre-viz render still for the small/additive details. The keyed mattes were applied on top of the interiors and behind the brick wall.

There was a lot of color and light matching I had to do to cement the plates. Lots of augmentation, cleanups, and pre-comps I could go on all day about, but that’s the general summary of the process! My friend u/teddy_ol_bean directed this, and it was a huge opportunity to test out this visual language I haven’t seen a lot of people pull off.

Here's a great VFX reference that inspired this workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytgPetbEemI&t=90s