From October to December 2012, the Kindred Art Department spent 12 gruelling weeks in 50-degrees Celsius heat, building a spaceship interior inside a hot tin-roofed warehouse in Sydney, Australia. Some 84 days later, the spaceship was complete - and the Kindred shoot began. Then, 5 days later, when it was all in the can, the shooting lease was about to expire. In less than 2 hours, over 600 hours of set building work was destroyed.
At just 9 minutes long, Kindred took over 2 and a half years to complete.
Of its 198 shots, some 190 contain VFX. And there are 9 types.
With 3 Sydney VFX houses collaborating on the film, and freelancers from all over the world joining the fray, the VFX department swelled to over 60 Nuke and After Effects artists, and the task of managing Kindred's data and combining all the effects in each shot was soon of a task of Herculean proportions. A fact that prompted one of the Producers to call it "The World's Shortest Feature Film."