In autumn 2021, six of us, as the second year of VFX students at the University of Television and Film Munich, started to find ideas for our first film exercise and met weekly under the direction of Prof. Jürgen Schopper. Planet B began with the story of an old man who breeds biotopes and discovers a small human in one of his biotopes. Once the teams for the realisation of the films had been formed, however, this idea soon developed into a futuristic sci-fi story with the aim of commenting on the man-made decay of the environment and presenting the urgency of a solution to this. by Alexander Hupp, Franziska Bayer, Ines Timmich After further development, the old man who created a biotope with a human became a young woman who, together with other scientists, wants to create an entire planet in order to save humanity.

The rough story was finalised at the beginning of 2022, after which the implementation began. Consequently, the next step was to find the resolution of our scenes in the v...