A few things stick out to me. The color grading doesn't match from the CG to the live action, but you already mentioned it wasn't finished. Another thing that bugs me is the lighting on the landing shot. With the light source in the shot the way it is, the door section of the ship shouldn't be receiving any direct light at all. That said, I doubt too many other people will be bugged by that. The only other crit I can offer is that the smoke clouds in the landing shots (both the hovering up to the bridge and the actual landing) look too saturated to me.

Minor things, really. Are you gonna post it up after you get the sound in there? I was making sound effects for it in my head while I watched it

Awesome short, man. I like how you do the breakdown visualization.

Ugh, I hate answering this one...it's technically my demo reel, but I've been treating it more like a short film. The reason that I have the breakdowns in here is that they're required for in order for me to graduate. The most likely course of action for me is to post the short on it's own, for my own gratification, then edit it down to a proper demo reel style, showcasing the actual VFX shots and my work, with breakdowns, and that's what will be my actual "demo reel".

So yeah...

@Squiggly: I'll definitely be throwing it up once I get everything properly finalized with sound. And thanks

Yeah, unfortunately those are the Vancouver Hydro "No Power" symbols that they have on all the support structures under the bridge we were shooting at, and we couldn't shoot the other direction. Although I might go in tomorrow and see how hard they'd be to paint out.

Holy crap!  I was thinking as I was watching it "That guy looks like one of the guards in Chronicles of Riddick...*" but I figured you had just gotten fellow / local students.

*not sure if I should be proud of this or not.