ILM: Behind the Magic of the Visual Effects in Marvel Studios' The Avengers

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!

Wow, seems like a lot of work! But it sure pays off! The VFX of the movie were amazing!

in somewhere in the Mr. Marc Chu is saying the marriage of dynamic dynamic animation with keyframe animation. I just want to ask it is necessary to work with the graph editor in dynamic animation to give weight and realism and how you guys done the shot where hulk was attacked by the fighter aircraft and he jumps over it and all the scene happen?? Waiting 4 the response

Fantastic, how many HDRI images you shot about the cityscape? and you projected in Maya or Nuke? or both?

you should upload the final scene, i cant find it and its amazing! greetings

How do yo make Hulk so realistic.

ultimate...

Love your work.... greattings for sharing from Chile.

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...!

After Effects was used in the movie?

Yes it was.

how many faces do the ironman have in last rendering ？ （after smooth）

Thank you for the reply!

How is Iron man suit textured. What program was used?

Photoshop and ILM's Zeno.

ILM best industry of fxs!

Oh my gosh! I knew a lot went in to making a movie but gawd damn! You people are amazing!

man I luv marvel's the avengers its AWESOME! best super hero movie evr! cnt wait 2 c the nxt movie..i luv all the characters evenly:) but if i had 2 pick a fav. itll pick HAWKEYE:) I got 2 say I luv the bow & arrow on him

This is a really stupid question but if movies can do all these effects and look that good why cant video games yet..?

If you can make these action sequences pretty much without the actors do you think that in the future it'll become increasingly unnecessary to have stunt teams if you can just animate it all and make it so incredibly realistic (I had no idea that that much of that scene was animated!)?

I still get chills of awesome watching these scenes

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 :)

And they don't give Oscars for this?! What?!

wat was the budget of this movies for ILM works

Really? So you are using ordinary software as well as your own custom one?

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.

Our in-house simulation engine. No, we don't use DMM, however once upon a time LucasArts did.

Amazing work needless to say.

yeah me too

This is what the media industry is all about people: solving problems.

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

Only Joss Whedon would be crazy enough to direct a shot like that.

I wish that I can visit your place one day.

Movies are being rendered with "armys" of servers with special video cards, and the whole movie can take weeks to render, even if it's only 3 hours. video games are rendered in "real time" with usually one video card, which is not as strong and specialized for rendering.

The more polygons you use to create CGI backgrounds and characters the more detail you get in the rendering. The processing required to do this in real time is impossible for games consoles at present. So less polygons are used so the consoles can process the games faster. In saying that games have come on so much in the last few years it's amazing they're capable of doing what they do now. With carbon nanotube computers coming around the corner gaming will definitely jump to the next level.

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!

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.

Respect!

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.

awsome

Is it me or the cgi looked wet?

CGI is getting better every year... wow !!!

This movie kicked so much ass!

I want to do this, but as a student I don't know how this is done, sure we have breakdowns and people telling us whats going on, but  I don't understand how its done.

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.

Captain America is truly a bad ass

Ok.@@@@

These guys are absolute geniuses