District 9
VFX studio Image Engine was responsible for the unearthly CGI in the gritty alien thriller District 9, but it wasn't an easy feat. One of the most difficult shots from the field was dubbed "the 1,000,000-alien shot," in which a brief shot depicted the interior of the alien mothership filled with hundreds of aliens. "That was hard mostly because we didn't have a lot of time to do it, so we had to scramble to figure out a way to get all the aliens together in that shot and make it work," said visual effects supervisor Dan Kaufman.