Alpha Centauri: University Base (Short Film)

In the 21st century, situation takes a turn for the worse. Civilization is crumbling, the Earth is dying. In 2060, United Nations sends a colony ship - U.N.S. Unity - to a newly discovered planet orbiting Alpha Centauri's primary star.

Among the small group of colonists to leave the ravages of Earth is Prokhor Zakharov, a brilliant scientist desperate to flee the chaos of his motherworld to start anew beneath an alien sky.

This is his story.

Ratimir Rakuljic writes:

A huge fan of 'Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri' game, I've made this short film to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

It was done entirely in my gradually diminishing free time :) I hope you'll enjoy it (and - if you're a fan of Civilization/Alpha Centauri games, you'll have a field day in catching the references):

Modeling and most of the animation is done in Blender, while character animation (utilizing a combination of motion capture, performance capture, and keyframe animation) and some of the environment work was done in Unreal Engine 5. Both Cycles and UE5 were used for rendering.