How these amazing Hollywood-level VFX were created for a low budget film

Director Steve Gomez explains how the VFX was created for his upcoming and astonishingly low-budget sci-fi thriller.

By Mimi Launder | on March 16, 2016

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Kill Command is an upcoming low-budget science fiction film – yes, not a phrase you normally hear. Creating fantastical lands, colossal spaceships and killer robots doesn’t encourage frugal visual effects spending.

Kill Command sees a simple training exercise go very wrong, as killer military robots hunt a tight-knit group of soldiers. Using an astonishingly small budget for the whole film – less than half of which was spent on VFX - Steve and a team of around 10 from his UK company Bandito VFX created over 1000 visual effects shots.

Unsurprisingly, the team were told by outsiders it was impossible - and many involved wondered whether it was ever going to be completed. But August 2015 finally saw the end of making the sci-fi thriller.

We were lucky enough to attend an early viewing of Kill Command, where our scepticism over its tiny budget quickly vanished. Killer robots terrorise, guns blaze and futuristic ships hover – all convincing and evocative enough to match any Hollywood creation.

Kill Command will be released in the UK in May. See the trailer in the video shown.