No Alien Abduction scene would work without the alien UFO to abduct the unwilling victim. Unfortunately I didn't have any actual space ships lying around to abduct people with, so I had to construct one digitally in Maya and then digitally layer it into my video footage.
After the ship has been animated and rendered out of Maya, I can then take the footage into After Effects and layer the ship above the footage of the crowd.
However, the ship would not appear behind the building layer, in the foreground, despite it being behind it in the idea. This was fixed, as can be seen in the image below, by putting a duplicate layer of the crowd footage in front of the ship, then masking the building in the foreground so that it the ship's wing appears to be behind the building.
All that needed to be added later was some colour correction so that the ship meshed with the background much more naturally.
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