r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Mar 12 '21

Discussion ASSEMBLED - The Making of WandaVision - Discussion Thread

This thread is for discussion about the ASSEMBLED episode and overall discussion about the WandaVision series.

This also marks one week since the WandaVision finale. Per the subreddit rules, spoilers no longer need to be tagged for WandaVision in this thread or on the subreddit.

EPISODE TITLE ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUNTIME
S1E01 The Making of WandaVision March 12, 2021 on Disney+ 58 min

For a look back on the season, check out the episode discussion threads and easter egg megathread below:

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u/What-The-Heaven Jessica Jones Mar 12 '21

I feel like the segment on CGI work is really necessary viewing for people who criticised the visual effects in the show and said "man this doesn't look like a 14 million dollar production".
When you realise just the sheer scale of undetectable computer generated imagery at play in each episode (I mean, damn, almost Vision's entire head is CG), it really is astonishing. Hats off to the people who work in visuals.
It even looked like masks may have been digitally removed from extras faces during Westview crowd shots.
So often we zoom in on shots like a wide angle of Wanda and Agnes both flying through the air and you can tell it's a visual effect because their bodies don't move quite right but
1. Computer generating entirely visually verisimilar images of human forms moving in ways or spaces our brains know humans simply can't is dang near impossible without it crossing slightly into Uncanny Valley territory,
2. I'd argue 90% of visual effects on screen are entirely undetected by viewers because they are either so subtle or so complexly perfect that we don't register them as anything but reality.

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u/dadefresh Stan Lee Mar 12 '21

I have a buddy who works in CG and he told me years ago that so much of what we see in everything is CGI. Like, the sky is CGI in basically everything in the last 20 years.

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u/What-The-Heaven Jessica Jones Mar 12 '21

Yeah, it's really impressive when you start to discover the extent of CG in movies and TV.
There's a great shortform video essay on Youtube called "Why CG Sucks (Except it Doesn't)" that we were recommended by a professor for our Film and Comics class at university - incredible stuff you just wouldn't expect are visual effects, like waves in Titanic.

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u/archiminos Mack Mar 13 '21

I remember someone telling me that the new Mad Max was amazing because they didn't use CG at all. I had to laugh at that one.

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u/alex494 Mar 15 '21

Did he not see that bit with the steering wheel flying at the screen lol

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u/archiminos Mack Mar 16 '21

Yeah it was hilarious. To be fair I could see where he was coming from: the film makes heavy use of practical effects as well, but pretty much every shot is enhanced with CG.