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ILM: Behind the Magic of the Visual Effects in Marvel Studios' The Avengers
While "The Avengers" posed many visual efffects challenges, one of the larger challenges was pulling together the "tie-in" shot during the third act of the film. Rather than frames, this single shot is measured in minutes on screen and is one of the longest effects shots in the film. It incorporates both practical special effects and extensive digital visual effects by ILM. The New York City environment that serves as the setting for this shot (and virtaully the entire alien invasion) is computer generated by the visual effects team at ILM.
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CGI is getting better every year... wow !!!
The movie was awesome the work that goes on behind the scenes is just as awesome. This is the reason I'm' striving to get into the film industry.
@Shoegazebasedgenre0.
9 жыл бұрын
however...one single mistakes means restart everything all over
This movie kicked so much ass!
Yes, we use a variety of commercial software in our work though it it often heavily customized and extended by our in-house development team.
I'm dabbling in Vfx shots and seeing this now really pushes me to pay soooo much attention to detail haha! I'm excited for Age of Ultron now!
We've come a long way from the digital double of "rubber" Neo in Matrix: Reloaded haven't we? It's finally getting to a point where we almost can't tell. On the big screen it's near impossible to tell.
For the flying shots it really comes down to the skill of the animators. They look at a lot of reference footage, in this case of other flying objects - planes, missiles, skydivers, birds - and pick the tiny characteristics that they like from each and combine them with their own base animation of Iron Man. From there it's constant refinement and dialing in the performance until it's perfect (in their eyes). Thanks!
It was worth the hard work, since this was one of the coolest shots in the entire movie. I love long shots with no cuts like this, and this one was breathtaking.
Never forget guys, without u, the movie wouldn't have been nearly as good as it was. Everyone knows how under-appreciated the visual effects department is in the grand scheme of things, but u guys really deserve all the praise for this movie.
Absolutely incredible. One of my favorite scenes of all time, and definitely one of the greatest sequences ever portrayed on the big screen.
And this is why artists at ILM are the pros at visual effects! :D
the most satisfying thing for you VFX guys must be when you tell someone "that whole scene was CG" and they go "what? i thought it was real", i had no idea that whole piece except for thor and the cap was CG, amazing!
Captain America is truly a bad ass
I still get chills of awesome watching these scenes
Respect!
I work for one of the post production companies that worked on Avengers. In the final weeks before the film's completion, each time our reel files were updated, a few of us would watch versions of this shot in particular at each new level of completion, always pondering aloud, "how will this look when it's done" and "are they really going to pull this off". To this day, I'm STILL amazed when I see it. =)
This is easily the best and my favorite shot of the film. It's also why you guys deserve best special effects this year. (I think you deserve it every year, but this one in particular.)
This is what the media industry is all about people: solving problems.
I still love that sequence of the movie! It's visually absolutely stunning and brings across the idea of the Avengers fighting together perfectly.
I loved this shot. It made the whole movie for me; all the heroes working together cohesively without breaking any rhythm from moving from different cuts. It really brought the Marvel magic to real life.
We utilized keyframe animation, traditional motion capture and Imocap our proprietary on-set motion capture technology for Hulk.
The best scifi/action movie of all time. Thanks ILM.
Absolutely FANTASTIC...great compositions...renders...trackers...everything.
Thanks for posting. It's the greatest shot in the film. So glad you picked this one to pull the curtain back on.
That scene was freaking amazing and seeing the process, as an artist, just makes it so much better.
My favorite scene of the whole movie. Great job ILM!!!
Hey dude! Its my favorite shot too. U never really appreciate a movie till u learn what kind of work was put into it.
I love watching the behind the scenes things for stuff like this. I mean, what they had to do to make that sequence one cohesive shot must have been ridiculous! But it worked so well! It's my favorite part of the whole film
I never even noticed the CGI Capt. America in that shot. Well done.
Wow, seems like a lot of work! But it sure pays off! The VFX of the movie were amazing!
that was one of the best action scenes of all time!
this was my favourite scene in the entire movie !
Absolutely Breathtaking! This is why I'm striving to work within this industry!
I wish that I can visit your place one day.
These guys are absolute geniuses
Love stuff like this. I would definitely buy some type of compilation of stuff like this showing how some of the biggest scenes from hit movies were assembled and achieved by ILM.
Only Joss Whedon would be crazy enough to direct a shot like that.
Thanks for putting this up on youtube. Hope to see more from you in the future.
In IMAX 3D it's amazing look! Great work! Thanks you ILM for that kind of experience!
this was the most epic scene of the movie
You guys and gals continue to do amazing work in a industry that has been so watered-down over the past few years. Thank you for continuing the inspiration.
Amazing shot! One of my favorite moments in the film!
We continue to use key frame animation as our primary technique however performance capture has its advantages when replicating performances as given by an actor.
Best film shot of 2012.
I'm not usually a fan of such CG-intensive scenes - I'm a fan of practical effects and usually it really sticks out to me when a scene is primarily CGI. But The Avengers was so seamlessly put together that I really didn't care - and that's a feat in and of itself. So well done for making a CG action sequence that I couldn't tell was primarily a CG action sequence...!
Please keep uploading these ILM so Great!
This was my favourite scene in the whole movie
Would be great to see more behind the scenes like this. Great stuff guys
great work guys, watching this in imax 3D was a breathtaking experience!
You know, something I haven't seen in the movies yet. A group of Super heroes taking a group of Super Villains. Each of them would have a one-on-one fight but they're evenly matched, so they switch opponents and win... Tell me you've seen that somewhere in a Super Hero movie.
@Rhoran
10 жыл бұрын
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I certainly do hope that they'll make that happen in The Justice Leguea of America movies! And maybe they'll do that in one of the future Avenger movies!
Ironman's repulser-beam bouncing off of Captain America's shield and hitting the enemies to prove they were working together was an overkill. I really loved the film and this Behind the Magic though!
Awesome, can't believe a big production like you could answer every comment like this.
Well, we contributed to the visual effects work on the film.
I knew in my heart that there were several comps stitched together! It's just beyond amazing how long the shot is and how much work had to go into making it look right~ Thank you for showing us the magic that makes our dreams a reality! =D
When Iron Man deflected his ray off Cap's shield, my first thought was: BRILLIANT!
I love these breakdown videos. I love ILM. Keep going on. . .
Photoshop and ILM's Zeno.
awesome...the longest best effect I've ever seen
simply Amazing once again ILM you guys out do yourselves with turning the impossible into the believable. bravo.
Optimization is an important theme when it comes to these type of massive work. ILM is expert with implementing all those strategies. :)
0:54 can i have that shirt...
Thats an Amazing team effort to produce that ... I dream of video games having that level of detail .. But watching this makes me think were decades away from that : (
good job ILM !!! congrats for oscar nomination !!
Amazing work ILM, very talented people on your side.
My favorite shot in the movie!
0:37 Why does Pre-viz Hawkguy look like Corey Feldman?!
I'm usually against this heavy use of CGI in films but this was, no pun intended, marvelously well done!
BADASS!!!
I would love to see more of this! Hopefully!
I simply love that shot.... Its epic in every sense of the word! :)
This is amazing, hope video games look likes this one day!
Good job guys. U made the best movie I ever saw and continue watching
Yes, Marvel Studios.
If the ILM were a football team, I would be the number one fan!!
This shot is godly.
The alien actor flying around with Scarlett Johansson on him is the luckiest man ever.
You guys rock for actually commenting on comments! Great video.
This is what I call talent
Best to let Marvel know that you'd like to see this type of material included in future releases.
Our in-house simulation engine. No, we don't use DMM, however once upon a time LucasArts did.
simply amazing, great job ILM!
I met jason smith in Italy explaining the avengers VFX, awsome
I love film industry and I am thinking to become a vfx or cg supervisor . But should I study multimedia design , computer science or what !!!!!! Please reply
Amazing work needless to say.
We have a very robust, proprietary fluid simulation engine called Plume. We do use Houdini a bit but we didn't use it on "The Avengers".
Really cool :D I love how you guys just upload everything you make with those epic breakdowns and interviews :D Thanks.
Oh my gosh! I knew a lot went in to making a movie but gawd damn! You people are amazing!
You guys need to know that this is incredible. You are the greatest visual effects company and you even go the extra mile and do behind the scenes stuff that looks awesome. This company seems like the greatest place to work and I'm so glad you guys exist. I was wondering though, if you could give any advice to an aspiring high school student interested in ILM, what would it be?
Yes, more to come.
I really need to get the blu ray now, must see this film again.
with a lot of hate on CGI nowadays...i still respect all the hardwork from these artists
Yes, ILM artists collaborate with the Lucasarts team on various projects.
greatest shot ever
The VFX on this movie is incredible!!! In the Pacific Rim will be much better?
ILM rocks!!!!!awesome looking forward for IRONMAN3
We collaborate with the director to bring his/her vision to the screen - Joss was instrumental in the design of every shot in the film, this one incuded.
This was awesome! They filmed downtown and I got to be an extra (: ...vfx was amazing
Amazing i never realised captain america was CGI in that shot.
Thank you verry much for this view *behind the scene / magic'! Looks really cool
Video game render time is measured in milliseconds - 30fps, 60fps, 120fps or higher in realtime. Visual effects shots can take hours to render a single frame - games would be decidedly less exciting if you had to wait that long between frames :)