Homecoming Which companies are doing the VFX?

[mclay18]

I've been looking to see which companies are doing the VFX for Spider-Man: Homecoming. I don't know who is the main vendor is. Some of the usual suspects are doing shots (if the various IMDB vfx crew additions are true), like Sony Pictures Imageworks, Method Studios, and Crafty Apes.

I'm a tad disappointed WETA and ILM aren't involved. I'm not surprised SPI is involved, given that the studio is financing the film for Marvel and that they've worked with them before (i.e. CA:TWS and GOTG).

 

[MyDudeSpidey]

ILM is listed as doing the special effects on Homecoming's IMDB page.

 

[mclay18]

I need something more verifiable than an IMDB entry (which can be edited like Wikipedia). If one of ILM's visual effects supervisors has the movie on their LinkedIn or online resumes, that would be the proof I needed.

I just tweeted a question to Jon Watts whether ILM is working on the film, hopefully he'll reply back.

 

[ehh]

Sony Imageworks is probably the most likely as one of them.

 

[Spider-Ranger]

German vfx studio TRIXTER is also working on the movie

 

[mclay18]

I also wager that Sony contracted Legend 3D to do the stereo conversion (the company did stereo work on Doctor Strange with Stereo-D), since they have a relationship stemming back to Ghostbusters, TASM2, Goosebumps, et al.

Don't know if Marvel's usual 3D company Stereo-D will do conversion work, they haven't worked on a previous film for Sony.

 

[ehh]

It'll be nice to see a Spider-Man film that isn't completely done by Sony Imageworks.

 

[mclay18]

Spider-Man 2 won the Best Visual Effects Oscar for that year. The VFX still holds up for the most part.

SPI has done some good work, but they've been a mixed bag. But Marvel is supervising the post-production process, and their VFX team is generally very solid.

 

[ehh]

Spider-Man 2 has some very good effects. Doc Ock looks rubbery in some shots but for the most part the film holds up. I would say the same for the 2002 Spider-Man movie. The final swing's CGI looks better than some of the effects in modern comic book films.

 

[ItchyWebShooter]

Spider-Man 2 has some very good effects. Doc Ock looks rubbery in some shots but for the most part the film holds up. I would say the same for the 2002 Spider-Man movie. The final swing's CGI looks better than some of the effects in modern comic book films.

*cough* Doomsday *cough*

 

[Spider-Who?]

It'll be nice to see a Spider-Man film that isn't completely done by Sony Imageworks.

They've had some misses, but Sony Imageworks is an Oscar winning SFX house. But even then, no film has just one FX studio working on it. There's just too much work. The big SFX studios always farm stuff out to vendors.

 

[mclay18]

Art of VFX says that Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Trixter are the main VFX vendors for Spider-Man: Homecoming; even lists the visual effects supervisors assigned. Domain has Lou Pecora (X-Men: Days of Future Past), SPI has Theo Bialek (ASM duo, Alice Through the Looking Glass) and Trixter's Dominik Zimmerle (Ant-Man).

http://www.artofvfx.com/spider-man-homecoming/