A clay figure of a one-eyed alien, its tentacles frozen mid-wave due to a malfunctioning mechanism, perches on a lily pad in the middle of a phosphorescent swamp. The figure shimmers under the light of a hovering spaceship, its bizarre silhouette magnified by a rippling holographic projection. The scene is a snippet from a psychedelic animation, shot with a fisheye lens in an intergalactic marshland.