Madame Web
Watch TrailerCassandra Webb develops the power to see the future. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women bound for powerful destinies, if they can all survive a deadly present.
The work varied from full CG web environments, extensive digi double work, wrapping face plates to digis, full costume and hair replacements, FX “astral projection” work, a car dissolving into web, a balloon of blood exploding and a webifed pigeon.
Fun Facts…
We averaged 181 versions per shot. Due to the acting strikes, additional photography was not possible, so we had to retrofit existing plates to use as faceplates for our digi.
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Madame Web: Mike Brazelton – Production VFX Supervisor
“We referenced all of the previous superhero films and found ourselves landing on the Doctor Strange astral projection look in the first film. We took that as a starting point and worked up our own take on that. Ola Hamletsen at One of Us was key in that process. They brought a fresh new take to the look.”
Weaving Visual and Special Effects Together in ‘Madame Web’
SFX Supervisor Jeremy Hays and VFX Producer Whitney Richman discuss the challenges of conceptualizing and creating scenes involving astral projection, underwater characters that aren’t actually underwater, and the lead character, Cassandra Webb, falling off a bridge during a motor vehicle rescue, on S.J. Clarkson and Sony Pictures’ suspense thriller.
