Deadpool & Wolverine was, for many fans, the most anticipated movie of the year. The movie, which is presently still running in theaters and stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, was everything the fans expected. The movie is still doing great in theaters and is bringing Marvel a lot of money, which is why we’re still discussing it.
So far, we have generally discussed the Easter Eggs and the theories related to the movie, but there is one technical aspect that we’ve only hinted at, and that is the special effects. Some scenes were criticized and the movie was, in general, described as relying too much on CGI, but there is a catch there.
Namely, one peculiar scene from Deadpool & Wolverine attracted the fans’ attention as it was executed in a brilliant manner. Namely, this scene was so good that even those who hate VFX simply had to praise it, as you will be able to see later in the article.
In a recently released video, Swen Gillberg, the VFX Supervisor of the movie, explained how they created the scenes in which Cassandra Nova’s hands pass through the faces of other characters, most notably Paradox’s (Deadpool’s too, but there was less detail there because he was wearing a mask), which was one of the greatest VFX moments in the whole movie, and here is what he said:
One of the highlight scenes of hands through face would be seen with Cassandra’s hands going through Mr. Paradox’s face. You literally see every pore on his face. Its fantastic effects, very, very cringe worthy. In our development process, we played with different skin thicknesses and I liked it thinner because we actually want to start seeing the details of her, like, knuckles in his skin.
There’s definitely a skull in those heads and she definitely works around it. And then when the fingers go over the eyeballs, the eyeballs pop out and it’s great. [MUSIC PLAYING] So for hands through face, Shawn and the effects team started out with comic book reference. There’s some key comic book frames that we really tried to match where it goes straight up through here and her fingers like to come out the nostrils and the eyeballs and the ears.
Whenever we are replacing limbs or replacing faces, we’ll often put tracking markers on. Emma’s hand has to go somewhere, so we just put it off to the side or this side or out of frame. Then, we would do clean plates on the day to clean up the arm and hand. And then in post, we would do a fully digital hand and arm, and then into a mostly digital Matthew Macfadyen face.
Then we go into detailed animation and that would be getting the details of the fingers sliding over the skull just right, getting it over the forehead, and dipping into the eye socket, that kind of thing. And then we go into a final detailed sculpting and creature pass. And that’s where you really would figure out, like, if she was wearing a ring, you would see the ring in there on the knuckle.
Source: YouTube
Now, a lot of fans reacted to this immediately, and they agreed that the scene was amazing, which includes even those who generally hate VFX and the overuse of CGI:
The hands through the face is one of the best CGI moments in The MCU it looked real and trippy
Huge props to the VFX team they cooked
– @DoomBlazer
This is one of the most creative depictions of telepathy I’ve seen in films. She literally puts her hand into your brain and digs up to see what’s inside your head. That’s disturbing but still accurate in representing what telepathy is all about.
– @Nicholas_Chen_
It’s crazy how little people are talking about Emma Corrin’s performance as Cassandra Nova. They killed it in the role, nailing Cassandra’s sadistic, twisted personality from the comics. Loved the VFX of their hands through people’s heads, as the VFX team really did an excellent job with the fluent movement of their fingers travelling under the skin to really add a level of sadistic menace and creepy terror to them
– @milkiassamuel780
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