Animating the Opening

The opening is meant to be a trailer for an old film. The ship and 3 planets are modeled and animated in Maya and the dropped on a still background with a transparent blue layer (15%) on top to give it a blue tone and therefore blend the images together. When lighting the objects in Maya I've kept to a three point system (Key Light, Fill Light and a Rim Light ) and used lights with a hint of blue. I kept this setup throughout however added a spot light to the UFO in an aim to bleach out the top surface. I did this because I knew that this area would pick up more from the blue layer in After Effects whilst standing out from the planets.

As for the animation it's meant to feel sightly slow as if we are watching an old trailer that could have been made using paper mache and string.