Station-0

Two astronauts ride a new space elevator to activate the first orbital data center, but the mission takes a deadly turn when the station malfunctions and begins to come apart around them.

Station-0 grew out of real research into the future of high-power industries. As I learned about proposals to relocate data centers off-world to reduce Earth's energy load and environmental impact, I became fascinated by the risks involved, especially the dependence on a potentially tethered system to send data back down. That tension between innovation and vulnerability became the foundation of the story.

I was also driven by a technical goal: to blend traditional CGI in Unreal Engine with AI-generated visuals in a way neither tool could achieve alone. Unreal handles the dynamic space shots AI can't yet create with as much fidelity, while AI is used to power the characters and more grounded sections of the film, as well as to create and iterate the overall visual style.

This project was created using a wide range of image and video generation tools. Google Veo 3.1 for video generation, Krea for image generation and style iteration, and MidJourney. I used Unreal Engine to build the space station and orbital environments with a variety of assets, allowing the shots that AI couldn't reliably produce to elevate the film with the movement possible with Unreal. All final imagery and sequences were assembled and refined in DaVinci Resolve Studio, using its effects, color tools, and post-processing to unify the look and add motion, depth, and polish to the AI-generated material.