the movies are indeed epic and
entertaining but the work that goes into
making them truly unbelievable
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten mind-blowing MCU special effects
revealed before we begin we publish new
content every day so be sure to
subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’ll be looking
behind the scenes at the MCU to see how
they brought these awe-inspiring feats
of visual effects work to life number 10
the magical realities of the sorcerer
supreme Doctor Strange the fourteenth
feature-length entry into the Marvel
Cinematic Universe was proof of the fact
that Marvel isn’t interested in limiting
themselves to traditional superhero
movies and in order to bring the magical
action fantasy of Doctor Strange to life
the effects supervisor Stefan Tourette
II and his team were charged with the
daunting task of creating mind-bending
realities that were nonetheless
functional though the inception
comparisons are inevitable tradie says
that their visuals in the film are also
very much rooted in classic visual
illusions requiring approximately 200
shots to create the mind-bending folding
Manhattan mirror sequence
[Music]
number nine expressive Ultron Avengers
when you’re doing a villain made
entirely of CGI you run a very serious
risk of having them feel two-dimensional
on the big screen and according to
insiders Ultron didn’t really come to
life as a character until the motion
capture actor behind him
James Spader started filming and I was
tangled in strings the nuanced
performance and personality that Spader
brought to the character was apparently
so complex that the VFX team had to
rework Ultron’s final form in order to
accommodate all of these details they
put me in a suit and they had me go
through a range of motion very specific
motions and movements and so on which
they captured with all these sort of
sensors all over me and reference
cameras all around me in addition to the
approximately 12,000 sensors on his body
Spader wound up wearing six hundred
nodes on his face alone and that is how
you build the world’s most charismatic
robot this is exactly what I wanted all
of you against all of me number eight
rockin cork for Ragnarok
allow me to introduce myself my name is
called speaking of impressive mocap
performances how about this standout
character from Thor’s third film like
with Ultron the challenge of bringing
this being to life convincingly lay in
the very material that he’s made out of
Korg the cronin is basically a living
pile of rocks thankfully they’d already
laid the groundwork designing another
cronin in Thor the dark world for that
film the VFX Department digitally built
the creature out of hundreds of
individual pieces of stone all laid over
an internal structure that would guide
and limit the characters range of motion
for Korg they upped it to one thousand
three hundred and thirty four individual
pieces of rock paying particular
attention again to the face nothing
makes you see a man the only thing that
doesn’t make sense is that nothing makes
sense number seven elderly Peggy Carter
Captain America the Winter Soldier you
should be proud of yourself banking
aging an actor is something that
Hollywood has been doing for decades but
rarely have they done it convincingly
practical makeup works but it often
limits expressiveness older stand-ins
can be used but that’s less than ideal
especially when the scene in question is
an emotional one as was the case when
Steve goes to visit an elderly Peggy
Carter
dissatisfied with either of the
above-mentioned options the crew used
some CGI magic to digitally age Peggy
and it’s hard to argue with the results
actress Hayley Atwell got to perform
unencumbered by makeup and then the VFX
Department digitally added wrinkling and
textural elements from the face of an
elderly woman sometimes the best we can
do number six
bugging out ant-man this film about
unlikely hero Scott Lang has a lot of
moving parts and operating across the
various scales of play required careful
planning perhaps the most essential
recurring effect that they had to
develop though was the fundamental act
of shrinking and growing in a move that
surely brought a smile to comic-book
purists that went back to the source
material artist Jack Kirby would overlay
atman at various sizes and that’s what
they tried to do on the big screen given
the many settings and movements across
which this occurs however it reportedly
proved to be among the most challenging
what the hell are you doing number five
hulking out the Avengers The Incredible
Hulk is the Forgotten child of the MCU
family of films like Aang Lee’s Hulk
before it the movie while far from awful
simply didn’t do the character justice
thankfully and the Avengers fans finally
got the Hulk of their dreams and that’s
in no small part thanks to the VFX
Department Ruffalo unlike Eric Bana and
Edward Norton before ‘im got to bring
both Banner and the Hulk to life via
motion capture technology the good folks
at Industrial Light and Magic not only
captured them in you shy of Ruffalo’s
movements and facial expressions but
perfectly transferred them to the Hulk
using an elaborate system of models rigs
and musculature systems number for
skinny Steve Captain America the First
Avenger
take off your shirt to tie in your head
when Chris Evans made his debut as
Captain America he proved that this
old-timey character could hold his own
on the modern big screen what many
people couldn’t help but fixate on
however was the seemingly impossible job
they’d done of making Evans into a
scrawny wisp of a man in order to
achieve the convincing Marvel of CGI
that is pre Super Soldier Serum Steve
Rogers they had Evans film all of his
scenes in a variety of ways and then
performed digital plastic surgery to
shrink him and give him an emaciated
look at times they would also attach
Chris’s slimmed down head unto a double
body there’s no arguing with the results
on football big number three the Battle
of New York the Avengers
so we have more incoming fun let’s keep
him occupied the MCU has made a habit of
achieving the previously unfathomable on
film we waited for their proposed
crossover movie with anticipation but
never could have imagined just how grand
it would be
The Avengers was an unprecedented feat
of cinematic planning and thankfully the
VFX Department delivered a climactic
battle to match the work done on the
Hulk alone is astounding but it would be
a mistake to let it distract you from
the many other aspects like the design
detail and flawless animation that went
to the Chitauri forces most impressive
however is the fact that they digitally
built the city from the ground up
seamlessly incorporated the actors and
practical effects and then destroyed it
[Music]
director Jon Favreau had the unenviable
task of setting the bar for the
franchise and thankfully he put in the
time energy and thought to make sure
that Tony’s armor was the best it could
be
in order to achieve maximum realism
while also ensuring that the suit could
take the beating that the plot had in
store for it
Favreau insisted on having a mixture of
practical effects and CGI one moment
Robert Downey jr. would be wearing a
heavily articulated suit the next it
would be completely CGI the magic is in
the fact that we as viewers are hard
pressed to tell the difference number
one the airport battle Captain America
with so many mind-blowing effects
happening in the foreground of the MCU
films it can be easy to overlook the
more mundane but equally crucial aspects
of the scene in this case we’re talking
about setting did you know that the epic
superhero showdown at the airport was
shot with a green-screen and that the
environment was added in post-production
we’re truly living in an age of
photorealistic CGI of course this entire
scene is one big testament to what can
now be achieved with VFX from the work
involves bringing a giant ape-man and
spider-man into this world to the
picture-perfect aerial combat we owe to
the Wizards of VFX what do we do can we
fight do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day [Music]
entertaining but the work that goes into
making them truly unbelievable
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten mind-blowing MCU special effects
revealed before we begin we publish new
content every day so be sure to
subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’ll be looking
behind the scenes at the MCU to see how
they brought these awe-inspiring feats
of visual effects work to life number 10
the magical realities of the sorcerer
supreme Doctor Strange the fourteenth
feature-length entry into the Marvel
Cinematic Universe was proof of the fact
that Marvel isn’t interested in limiting
themselves to traditional superhero
movies and in order to bring the magical
action fantasy of Doctor Strange to life
the effects supervisor Stefan Tourette
II and his team were charged with the
daunting task of creating mind-bending
realities that were nonetheless
functional though the inception
comparisons are inevitable tradie says
that their visuals in the film are also
very much rooted in classic visual
illusions requiring approximately 200
shots to create the mind-bending folding
Manhattan mirror sequence
[Music]
number nine expressive Ultron Avengers
when you’re doing a villain made
entirely of CGI you run a very serious
risk of having them feel two-dimensional
on the big screen and according to
insiders Ultron didn’t really come to
life as a character until the motion
capture actor behind him
James Spader started filming and I was
tangled in strings the nuanced
performance and personality that Spader
brought to the character was apparently
so complex that the VFX team had to
rework Ultron’s final form in order to
accommodate all of these details they
put me in a suit and they had me go
through a range of motion very specific
motions and movements and so on which
they captured with all these sort of
sensors all over me and reference
cameras all around me in addition to the
approximately 12,000 sensors on his body
Spader wound up wearing six hundred
nodes on his face alone and that is how
you build the world’s most charismatic
robot this is exactly what I wanted all
of you against all of me number eight
rockin cork for Ragnarok
allow me to introduce myself my name is
called speaking of impressive mocap
performances how about this standout
character from Thor’s third film like
with Ultron the challenge of bringing
this being to life convincingly lay in
the very material that he’s made out of
Korg the cronin is basically a living
pile of rocks thankfully they’d already
laid the groundwork designing another
cronin in Thor the dark world for that
film the VFX Department digitally built
the creature out of hundreds of
individual pieces of stone all laid over
an internal structure that would guide
and limit the characters range of motion
for Korg they upped it to one thousand
three hundred and thirty four individual
pieces of rock paying particular
attention again to the face nothing
makes you see a man the only thing that
doesn’t make sense is that nothing makes
sense number seven elderly Peggy Carter
Captain America the Winter Soldier you
should be proud of yourself banking
aging an actor is something that
Hollywood has been doing for decades but
rarely have they done it convincingly
practical makeup works but it often
limits expressiveness older stand-ins
can be used but that’s less than ideal
especially when the scene in question is
an emotional one as was the case when
Steve goes to visit an elderly Peggy
Carter
dissatisfied with either of the
above-mentioned options the crew used
some CGI magic to digitally age Peggy
and it’s hard to argue with the results
actress Hayley Atwell got to perform
unencumbered by makeup and then the VFX
Department digitally added wrinkling and
textural elements from the face of an
elderly woman sometimes the best we can
do number six
bugging out ant-man this film about
unlikely hero Scott Lang has a lot of
moving parts and operating across the
various scales of play required careful
planning perhaps the most essential
recurring effect that they had to
develop though was the fundamental act
of shrinking and growing in a move that
surely brought a smile to comic-book
purists that went back to the source
material artist Jack Kirby would overlay
atman at various sizes and that’s what
they tried to do on the big screen given
the many settings and movements across
which this occurs however it reportedly
proved to be among the most challenging
what the hell are you doing number five
hulking out the Avengers The Incredible
Hulk is the Forgotten child of the MCU
family of films like Aang Lee’s Hulk
before it the movie while far from awful
simply didn’t do the character justice
thankfully and the Avengers fans finally
got the Hulk of their dreams and that’s
in no small part thanks to the VFX
Department Ruffalo unlike Eric Bana and
Edward Norton before ‘im got to bring
both Banner and the Hulk to life via
motion capture technology the good folks
at Industrial Light and Magic not only
captured them in you shy of Ruffalo’s
movements and facial expressions but
perfectly transferred them to the Hulk
using an elaborate system of models rigs
and musculature systems number for
skinny Steve Captain America the First
Avenger
take off your shirt to tie in your head
when Chris Evans made his debut as
Captain America he proved that this
old-timey character could hold his own
on the modern big screen what many
people couldn’t help but fixate on
however was the seemingly impossible job
they’d done of making Evans into a
scrawny wisp of a man in order to
achieve the convincing Marvel of CGI
that is pre Super Soldier Serum Steve
Rogers they had Evans film all of his
scenes in a variety of ways and then
performed digital plastic surgery to
shrink him and give him an emaciated
look at times they would also attach
Chris’s slimmed down head unto a double
body there’s no arguing with the results
on football big number three the Battle
of New York the Avengers
so we have more incoming fun let’s keep
him occupied the MCU has made a habit of
achieving the previously unfathomable on
film we waited for their proposed
crossover movie with anticipation but
never could have imagined just how grand
it would be
The Avengers was an unprecedented feat
of cinematic planning and thankfully the
VFX Department delivered a climactic
battle to match the work done on the
Hulk alone is astounding but it would be
a mistake to let it distract you from
the many other aspects like the design
detail and flawless animation that went
to the Chitauri forces most impressive
however is the fact that they digitally
built the city from the ground up
seamlessly incorporated the actors and
practical effects and then destroyed it
[Music]
director Jon Favreau had the unenviable
task of setting the bar for the
franchise and thankfully he put in the
time energy and thought to make sure
that Tony’s armor was the best it could
be
in order to achieve maximum realism
while also ensuring that the suit could
take the beating that the plot had in
store for it
Favreau insisted on having a mixture of
practical effects and CGI one moment
Robert Downey jr. would be wearing a
heavily articulated suit the next it
would be completely CGI the magic is in
the fact that we as viewers are hard
pressed to tell the difference number
one the airport battle Captain America
with so many mind-blowing effects
happening in the foreground of the MCU
films it can be easy to overlook the
more mundane but equally crucial aspects
of the scene in this case we’re talking
about setting did you know that the epic
superhero showdown at the airport was
shot with a green-screen and that the
environment was added in post-production
we’re truly living in an age of
photorealistic CGI of course this entire
scene is one big testament to what can
now be achieved with VFX from the work
involves bringing a giant ape-man and
spider-man into this world to the
picture-perfect aerial combat we owe to
the Wizards of VFX what do we do can we
fight do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day [Music]
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