What would it look like if a giant, jellyfish-like object simply appeared over Stockholm one day? That’s the premise of the Swedish sci-fi series We Come in Peace (Vi kommer i fred), and this making-of reel from Belgian studio benuts shows how the visitor and its effect on the city were put on screen. It’s a rare look at big creature and environment work on a European TV budget, which makes it worth a watch.
The video below is benuts’ own upload from its official Vimeo channel.
About We Come in Peace
We Come in Peace is a six-part drama from Swedish broadcaster TV4. It premiered on TV4 Play+ on November 6, 2025, with a regular TV4 broadcast following on November 13 (Moviezine).
The series was created and written by Lars Lundstrom, the writer behind Real Humans (Akta manniskor), and directed by Jens Jonsson and Mani Maserrat (TV4 press release). Fares Fares plays crisis expert Elias Charbel, Evin Ahmad plays biologist Zandra Kraft, and Suzanne Reuter plays Prime Minister Moa Halmgren (Comic Con Stockholm).
When the object appears, Zandra suspects it could be humanity’s first contact with intelligent life, while politicians and the military try to work out whether it’s hostile. Germany’s ZDF is among the co-producers, and Spark Film & TV produces (Nordic Widescreen).
Who Is benuts?
benuts is a Belgian studio covering VFX, CGI and motion design for film, TV, stage and music videos. It has offices around Brussels and in Flanders, and it works closely with the French studio CGEV under a shared benuts x CGEV banner.
The studio’s project page for the series lists on-set supervision, 3D, 2D compositing, digital matte painting and creatures among its jobs on the show. Belgian co-producer Beside Productions says benuts handled the series’ large VFX workload, part of a deal that brought Belgian financing and talent to the project even though filming took place in Lithuania and Stockholm (Beside Productions).
Bringing a Visitor to Stockholm
The core challenge is the visitor itself. It has to feel enormous, strange and physically present above a real city, shot after shot. That means the creature work has to be lit to match each plate, and the city often needs digital matte painting (painted, photoreal backgrounds) to sell the scale.
benuts VFX supervisor Nicolas Corson was booked to talk about the show at the 2025 Seriencamp conference in Germany, on a panel with producer Piodor Gustafsson. The session listing promised a look at animatronics, high-end VFX, on-set challenges and the choice between doing something practically or digitally, under the question “How do you bring ambitious sci-fi worlds to life on a TV budget?”
The effects landed with at least some critics. Moviezine’s Anders Eklof praised “really impressive effects that we rarely see in Swedish productions” (translated from Swedish).
Where to See More
benuts posted an earlier, shorter making-of covering episodes one to three on the same Vimeo channel, so check that too if you want more. The studio’s website also has its 2026 showreel.
If alien visitors and big skies are your thing, our roundup of VFX-heavy movies to watch in 2026 has more effects-driven titles. And if you’re new to these reels, our explainer on what a VFX breakdown is covers how to read the before and after passes.
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