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Carnival Row – Season 2 – Digital Domain

Friday | 2023 04 28 |

From fantastical characters to environments and CG creatures, our award-winning VFX team created visual effects for Carnival Row’s second season in collaboration with Amazon. Our artists built the photorealistic Sparas from the ground up, using a combination of practical effects and digidoubles. The team also created the entire train chase sequence in episode one, going so far as to build an entire CG landscape, complete with geographical markers. They also heavily researched flight and movement to create the fairy wings, then drew and animated them.

Our work can be seen primarily in episodes one, two, four and five.
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The Last of Us – Season 1 – Digital Domain

Friday | 2023 04 28 |

For Episode 4 of The Last of Us, Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Mitch Drain and his team were tasked with creating the environment for the post-apocalyptic city. The team added overgrowth, decay and debris along with abandoned cars, FedEx trucks, and military vehicles, and more to truly set the scene.

For the season finale, The VFX team wrapped up its work creating a backdrop of CG environments, as Joel and Ellie drive pass a digitally created sign that reads “Welcome to Wyoming,” signifying the end and beginning of their journey.
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She-Hulk – Attorney at Law – Digital Domain

Tuesday | 2022 12 20 |

To realize 43 minutes of screen time for Marvel Studios’ latest superhero, She-Hulk, Digital Domain VFX Supervisor Jan Philip Cramer and his outstanding team of artists sought inspiration in the technology used to create everyone’s favorite villain, Thanos. Building on that same technology, the Digital Domain team successfully transformed the 5’4” Tatiana Maslany into a 6’7” green giant, without sacrificing the nuance of the Emmy-winner’s performance.

In addition to utilizing the studios proprietary tools, Masquerade 2.0 and Charlatan, to bring She-Hulk to life, DD also worked on several other visual effects sequences throughout the series while introducing new systems. The team developed a ShapeWear system that allowed the superhero’s attire to accurately adjust to the character model, while subtly and realistically augmenting the muscles to match. This can be seen throughout the series and most notably in the dance scene with Megan the Stallion.

The team also created CG droid K.E.V.I.N., which was meant as an homage to Marvel Studios mastermind, Kevin Feige, and much more! In total, Digital Domain contributed nearly 1,000 VFX shots to She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, including 660 shots of She-Hulk alone
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Perry Mason – Digital Domain

Friday | 2022 09 09 |

Led by VFX Supervisor Mitchell S. Drain, Digital Domain was proud to produce some incredible work on “Perry Mason” for HBO. The work included a recreation of the original Angels Flight area in Los Angeles. The VFX team researched the look of the city as it was in 1930 and compared it to the modern urban layout it is now, then worked to integrate the two as seamlessly as possible. New techniques brought all designs back to life, from the buildings to the streets to the iconic Angels Flight cable-car, a once iconic vertical trolley that last operated in 1969.
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Ms. Marvel – Digital Domain

Sunday | 2022 08 14 |

For the Marvel Studios hit series “Ms. Marvel,” Digital Domain VFX Supervisor Aladino Debert and his talented team of artists successfully brought the comic book hero and her superpowers to life. Building on the new origins, artists at Digital Domain designed a unique look for Kamala Khan’s powers featuring a blue-ish purple crystalline manifestation that radiated energy, highlighted by an internal luminescence, created in Houdini.

The team also created several environments including the crowded train station set on the eve of the infamous Partition of India, creating several digital trains, crowds in period-appropriate clothing, and smoke to bring it all to life. Additionally, Aladino and his team were responsible for the fight sequence in the final episode. For this sequence, the team developed the look for Kamran’s damaging powers, Ms. Marvel’s giant, hard-light hands, digital debris, partial digidoubles of Kamran and Ms. Marvel, and more.

The Digital Domain team was also responsible for the iconic closing scene, which appeared in the series’ poster where Ms. Marvel sits on a lamppost and looks out over the city as her hair blows in the wind.
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Black Widow – Digital Domain

Tuesday | 2022 08 09 |

Digital Domain’s Visual Effects Supervisor Dave Hodgins and his team of artists produced visual effects for Marvel Studios’ Black Widow.

The action-packed sequences include the creation and destruction of the Red Room, intense skydiving shots and the final battle between Black Widow and the Taskmaster. Travel through the sky and check out our VFX work for yourself
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Free Guy – Digital Domain

Tuesday | 2022 08 09 |

For Twentieth Century Studios’ Free Guy, Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis led a team of about 254 artists, creating 347 VFX shots for the film. From replacing actors with digidoubles to creating entire CG cities, Digital Domain was also responsible for the 87 gameplay shots that take place inside of Free City, along with the exciting, action-packed opening sequence we call “The Oner,” which truly sets the tone for the film.
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Morbius – Digital Domain

Tuesday | 2022 05 24 |

For the Sony Pictures’ film Morbius, Digital Domain created over 500 visual effects shots. Led by VFX Supervisor Joel Behrens, our artists were responsible for the final monstrous, vampiric looks of Dr. Michael Morbius, played by Jared Leto, and Milo, played by Matt Smith. To bring the characters to life the award-winning visual effects studio employed its proprietary facial capture system, Masquerade. In addition to the character design, Digital Domain artists developed the look of the bloom, super speed, flying, echolocation and shedding effects, and contributed to several sequences including the container ship sequence, the subway chase, Morbius’ prison escape and the final battle at the construction site.
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Spider-Man – No Way Home – Digital Domain

Thursday | 2022 03 31 |

For the highly-anticipated Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ film Spider-Man: No Way Home, Digital Domain VFX Supervisor Scott Edelstein and his team of artists were tasked with digitally creating the Alexander Hamilton Bridge and parts of New York City, along with Spider-Man, Doc Ock and his tentacles, Sandman, Green Goblin and more. The team also created visual effects for the epic Doc Ock and Spider-Man bridge fight along with the battle at Happy’s condo.

In total, Digital Domain contributed over 520 shots, along with over 600 unique assets, including vehicles, full environments, props and more. Our team of artists also created 14 hero character builds and 19 digi-doubles for the film.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Digital Domain

Tuesday | 2021 11 16 |

Marvel approached our visual effects team led by VFX Supervisor Hanzhi Tang to partner on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Tang and his team of 115 Digital Domain artists created the lush landscape that finally reveals Wenwu’s hidden fortress.

In addition to the environment and fortress, our team also provided visual effects for the action-packed compound escape sequence creating almost 275 shots for the film.
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Free Guy – Digital Domain

Saturday | 2021 10 23 |

For Twentieth Century Studios’ Free Guy, Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis led a team of about 254 artists, creating 347 VFX shots for the film. From replacing actors with digidoubles to creating entire CG cities, Digital Domain was also responsible for the 87 gameplay shots that take place inside of Free City, along with the exciting, action-packed opening sequence we call “The Oner,” which truly sets the tone for the film.

Here is only a small glimpse at the awesome VFX work created by the team at Digital Domain.
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