Ms Marvel: When Visual Effects Are the True Superpower
The Digital Domain team proved that creating shiny superpowers requires more than good intentions 🦸♀️. In this Ms Marvel breakdown, they reveal how they turned abstract concepts into stunning visual effects.
The technical challenges included:
- Energy effects: making light behave like cosmic liquid
- Body transformations: stretches that defy physics
- Urban environments: recreating Jersey City without its real traffic problems
Kamala's powers had to look organic, as if the laws of physics were just taking a break
The process required so many layers of compositing that artists needed maps to not get lost 🌪️. But the final result justified every minute of rendering.
Fun fact: the energy effects consumed more processing time than all of Endgame's battles combined 💥. At least this time the power came from the graphics cards.
If after watching this breakdown you don't want to study VFX, at least you'll understand why Marvel's end credits are so long 😉.