Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of "The Avengers"

We are proud to present this video which showcases some of ILM's Oscar nominated effects work for the 2012 hit film, "Marvel's The Avengers". This reel represents a small fraction of the work created by over 200 ILM artists, scientists, and engineers backed up by a world class production team.

The stop motion animations which open and close the reel were done the old fashioned way - by hand, one frame at a time. They were crafted by ILM's stop motion guru, Erik Dillinger specifically for this reel.

-Enjoy!

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  Film & Animation

[OriginalFerangi]

Is After Effects used?

[ILMVisualFX]

Yes, on a few shots.

[MasterLego2000]

what software do you use to composite im guessing after effects?

[ILMVisualFX]

Primarily The Foundry's NUKE and Autodesk's Flame & Inferno.

[ArielAleXCo]

The eternal question do you use PC, Mac or Linux?

[ILMVisualFX]

Yes.

(We use all three.)

[ILMVisualFX]

Not necessarily but it doesn't hurt.

[Hartono Rajageboy]

It's Amazing !, IN ILM WE TRUST !

[RealMassi]

You don't have to but can you explain how you put 3d AND video together? Is it the tracking camera imported in 3d program or is it 3d imported in edit software as AfterEffect, or is there many ways to work. There's a lot of confusion :/

[Ayoife Oni]

I have some questions & a quick reply will be highly appreciated. I'm 22 & I'm aspiring to be a vfx artist, I'm highly motivated & I have a passion for this. These are my questions:

1. How much time will it take me to become good enough to work with great minds like yours, with constant daily practice?

2. I just started learning After Effects & I know a bit of Maya, Is there any other software that I should focus on?

Thanks in anticipation of a quick reply.

[KeyFrame11Media]

They do use After Effects in some of the VFX, and Foundry has plenty of Plug-Ins for After Effects as well. My guess though would be to say NUKE is utilized more in the industry for compositing due to better 3D/ CG integration and it's multi-pipeline. Normally you will see multiple programs used throughout these projects, and some are more appropriate for uses than others.

[Griffin Wiebel]

May I ask why you don't use After Effects for composting?

[Abhishek Kumar]

wow guys this video was so interesting but i did not understand how it can be useful to fellow trying to learn some VFX online .