1/9/2023 0 Comments Hydra captain america![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We asked Lola to do a test which we shot in England,” says Townsend. A number of approaches were considered to complete the final effect, including doing a fully CG head, 3D projections and head replacements, before the 2D manipulation approach was tested. ‘Skinny Steve’ would be an effect completed by Lola VFX and one of the most challenging aspects of the production. Chris Evans played both Rogers as a skinny man and as the superhero. Rogers’ determination is finally rewarded when he is picked for a top secret ‘super solider’ project, transforming him into Captain America and eventually taking on a Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) and his Nazi research department, HYDRA. In the film, soldier hopeful Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) makes repeated attempts to enlist for military service but is rejected for being small, skinny and sickly. “When we read the script and spoke with Joe Johnston,” recalls Townsend, “we came away saying, ‘Oh, it’s not an effects movie, then.’ There are a lot of shots, but it’s still not a big effects movie, it’s more of a character piece and an origin story about how a skinny guy becomes Captain America.” Skinny Steve Visual effects supervisor Chris Townsend and visual effects supervisor Mark Soper, along with Method London VFX supe Stephane Ceretti, led the worldwide effects effort on the film. With that in mind we present a look at the work of several of the studios for Captain America.Ĭonceiving an old-fashioned comic book outing for Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger – set mostly during World War II – director Joe Johnston still relied on just shy of 1600 visual effects shots, and more than a dozen vendors for the stereo release. One of the fun panels we attended at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver covered the VFX in Marvel films Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. ![]()
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