WORK / DESIGN · MOTION · FILM · VFX / 2022
Cometh
Fit for Space.
A space captain. Five lessons. An excessive amount of VHS.
The episodes
01 / 05
Captain Fit introduces the Cometh universe, with a little help — and a few interruptions — from familiar sci-fi references.
A lesson in strategy, attack and defence. The Captain's demonstration does not quite go to plan.
Deck building, resources and card combinations, explained through the Captain's very personal teaching methods.
A tour of the game's community and spaceship rental mechanics, with a detour through Star Trek.
The marketplace, passing trends and a long list of missed movie roles. Captain Fit attempts to keep up.
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01 / 02
Cometh reimagined through a collection of movie-inspired logo animations, extending the series' sci-fi references into its end titles.
The Fit for Space title animation: chrome lettering, neon colour and the same VHS texture as the films.
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THE PROJECT
Not quite fit for space
Produced by Kabuki Media for Cometh in 2022, Fit for Space turns game tutorials into a sci-fi comedy. Its host, Captain Fit, is an overconfident space instructor whose advice is regularly interrupted by his ego, his crew and an improbable number of movie references.
My contribution covered the digital spaceship environment, green-screen compositing, visual effects and motion design for the teaser and five episodes. The set was developed around the live-action shoot: room for characters to enter and leave the frame, a large window onto space, and a camera position adjusted with the production team.
The finish embraces the excess of 1980s genre films: VHS interference, exaggerated zooms, explosions, graphic interruptions and glowing chrome titles. I also designed and animated the Fit for Space identity and the movie-inspired Cometh logos that carry the joke into the end cards.
The environment was built in 4K to leave room for reframing. Square postproduction exports and separate title elements gave the editing team material to adapt the films for horizontal and vertical releases.
- Client
- Cometh
- Production
- Kabuki Media
- Digital sets, compositing & VFX
- Raphaël Mechet
- Titles & logo animation
- Raphaël Mechet
- Editing
- Pierre-Alexis Morin
- Year
- 2022