How the ‘Sputnik’ VFX Team Brought the Creature at Its Center to Life
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThough the Russian film “Sputnik” is a sci-fi movie that begins in the vastness of space, the goal for Arman Yahin and his VFX team at Main Road Post was a narrow one: to build out the alien hitchhiker that one of the cosmonauts unwittingly brings home. The film centers on Konstantin Sergeyevich (Pyotr Fyodorov, “Stalingrad”), the lone survivor of a mysterious space accident, who returns with a creature inside him that emerges at night and can reenter his body. First set to run in the Tribeca Film Festival, the movie, a record-breaking VOD hit in Russia, debuts via IFC Midnight in select theaters and on demand Aug.