Google ATAP Spotlight Story ‘HELP’ by Justin Lin

‘HELP’ is Google ATAP’s 2015 Spotlight Story directed by Justin Lin — the platform’s first immersive, live-action film made uniquely for mobile. The fourth story in the series that launched in October 2013, it is a classic tale of explosions, aliens, heroines and heroes in which the phone holds the story, giving the audience a window to look anywhere, set the pace and frame the shot. Groundbreaking in combining live action and cinematic-quality visual effects in a 360-degree environment, the film debuted free on May 28, 2015, in the Google Spotlight Stories app for Android and iOS. The Mill collaborated on every aspect, even developing ‘Mill Stitch,’ proprietary software that stitched multiple cameras into a continuous 360-degree view on set and in post.

SCANable captured all of the sets, locations, actors and vehicles in 3D, providing the photogrammetry and 3D scan data used to recreate each element as a photorealistic digital asset within the film’s vast CG environments.