Visual Effects : Philip Seymour Hoffman

 

Visual Effects : Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman who plays Plutarch Heavens bee tragically died from a drug overdose before production had completed on the project. "Hoffman had finished the majority of his work before his death,” states Charles Gibson. "The few instances where his presence was manipulated were achieved either editorially or with simple split screens.” Visual effects for Endgame were created by ILM, Weta Digital, DNEG, Frame store, Cine site, Digital Domain, Rise, Lola VFX, Cantina Creative, Capital T, Technicolor VFX,
The film has over 3,000 visual effects shots. Perception worked on the main-on-end credits, opting to create "something that felt personal [and] sentimental", that would also remind the viewer of "the last ten years" of the MCU and was "a love letter to the fans". The credits were broken down into three sections–the crew, the cast, and then the "hero 6" which featured the original six Avengers from the first film–and featured over 60 unique title cards. Unlike traditional credit order, Marvel Studios wanted the credits to build to the original Avengers, which meant putting the top billed actors at the end of the sequence instead of the start. Perception used abstract light rays that became more distinct as the sequence progressed. For the cast credits, footage from past films was used for each actor, "specifically selected not just for the way it interacted with the light but also for its iconic power". Finally, the hero section featured an image of the actor in the foreground with footage of their character in the background as well as the actor's signature. Featuring the signatures was an idea from Feige to create "a more personal and intimate connection". Perception once again created the main title sequence as well.

Frame store created 253 shots for the film for the New York fight sequence in the first act of the film. Patrick Roos, Frame store's VFX Supervisor, called their shots a "mix of full CG shots, plate shots, FX, set extensions, magic spells and a lot of character work". A portion of the fight sequence was shot in Atlanta, before moving to a fully CGI Washington Square Park. Frame store's Capture Lab spent a month in Manhattan and New Jersey shooting photo reference, LIDAR and gigapixel panoramas to capture the environments that had to be recreated digitally, capturing more than 250,000 photos and 15TB of data. For their work on the Black Order members, Frame store spent close to a year developing their models, working with Marvel Studios' visual development team to create animation vignettes to explore each member's personalities and character traits. Frame store also created Iron Man's new suit, the Mark 50, that is made up of singular nanobots which move around his body to form a suit, and was developed alongside Marvel for about two years, and Spider-Man's Iron Spider armor suit

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