I see posts all the time talking about the million dollar special effects and such, but isn’t it just a team of people using software? Why and how do (decent) special effects have such a high price?
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In order to get a movie created quickly, it takes multiple teams (each using a lot of computing power), each with their own specialty.
In a big film like Endgame, there’d be teams (or separate companies in many cases) working on creating the model, textures, and working with the motion-capture to animate Hulk, Rocket, Groot, Thanos, Iron Man, etc. Another, completely different team would be creating the background landscapes. Another would be working on the background crowds of fighters. More people would be needed to take out any wires. Then you have the teams adding the dust and dirt, lighting from Thor, and so on. Even after you have all of the parts, there are teams working on bringing it all together and color correcting each element.
All told, there were over 3,000 effects shots and a dozen visual effect companies working on the film.
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