Amazing Before and After Hollywood VFX: Spiderman Homecoming

Imageworks had already worked on all previous Spiderman movies so, in an attempt to give Spiderman Homecoming a fresh new look, producers were reluctant to involve them in this project. That is until they saw how crazy good some of Imagwork’s test material was! They created a computer-generated photo-real version of actor Tom Holland that looked and moved so convincingly that Tom and even the filmmakers thought it was real. One of the problems Imageworks realized was how all the iconic spidey comic book poses tended to make the on-screen animated character look a bit too artificial. To overcome this, Imageworks focused on all the wobbly bits of Tom’s performances. They paid close attention to all of the times Tom was off balance or slightly hesitant in a movement, adding imperfections to the animation and other details like being misaligned with the camera or not quite holding a pose correctly. All of this made the animation feel more human. Imageworks also worked on ‘The Vulture’, who uses an exoskel