3D Animation

The helicopter is an asset found online and was animated using Blender and rendered using Blender's render engine "Cycles".

Compositing

The 3D animated asset was composited onto the drone footage using Nuke.
Nuke was also used to 3D track the footage to get accurate data for the 3D animations render camera.

Conclusion

This project was personally made for fun, where I learned a lot by getting constant feedback from the subreddit r/Blender and r/vfx.
Some improvements that could be made are mostly around the shadow from the helicopter being cast on the mountain side. Due to some diffuculties getting a highly accurate point cloud to recreate the mountain side I wasn't able to make the shadow follow the surface in a convincing way.