Sound Transit did something no transit system ever had: opened the first light rail line to cross a floating bridge, linking Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond by rail for the first time.

Milestones like that have a problem — once they’re real, people stop noticing. Copacino+Fujikado’s solution? Find an audience that couldn’t take it for granted.

We pitched a retro, one-stop-shop solution: live action plus VFX, built on real performance. Drop an alien delegation into the most mundane setting on Earth — a corporate boardroom — and watch the meeting curdle.

Same tense meeting you’ve sat through a hundred times. Just with holograms, slime-tipped pens, and a remote control that’s alive.

Three SAG actors, each 1.5–2.5 hours in the makeup chair, prosthetics engineered around a single rule. Rounded shapes, big expressive eyes, flexible mouths — built to land a joke with nothing but a glance.

Real prosthetics meant real-time reactions on set. In post, VFX never announces itself — it just makes the practical land. Drag to compare the on-set plate with the finished frame.

Track each practical performance frame-accurately off of the real plate.

Heighten facial expressions on top of the actor’s take — never replacing it.

Composite the faces, hologram projector and transporter effects that support the joke, quietly.

—Tim Healy, Marketing Director, Sound Transit