Deadpool & Wolverine Visual Effects of Cassandra Nova’s Fingers

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Deadpool & Wolverine Visual Effects of Cassandra Nova’s Fingers  Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Cassandra Nova’s fingers go under people’s skin and in their minds, with Deadpool & Wolverine VFX Supervisor Swen Gillberg.

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00:00One of the highlight scenes of Hands Through Face would be a scene with

00:04Cassandra's hands going through Mr. Paradox's face. You literally see every

00:08pore on his face. It's fantastic effects. Very, very cringeworthy.

00:15In our development process we played with different skin thicknesses and I

00:19liked it thinner because we actually want to start seeing the details of her

00:23like knuckles in his skin. There's definitely a skull in those heads and

00:28she definitely works around it and then when the fingers go over the eyeballs

00:32the eyeballs pop out and it's it's great.

00:41So for Hands Through Face, Sean and the VFX team started out with comic book reference.

00:45There's some key comic book frames that we really tried to match where it goes

00:50straight up through here and her fingers like to come out the nostrils and the

00:53eyeballs and the ears. Whenever we are replacing limbs or replacing faces we'll

01:00often put tracking markers on. Emma's hand has to go somewhere so we would

01:04just put it off to the side or this side or out of frame. Then we would do clean

01:09plates on the day to clean up the arm of the hand and then in post we would do a

01:13fully digital hand and arm and then into a mostly digital Matthew McFadyen face.

01:19Then we go into detailed animation and that would be getting the details of the

01:24fingers sliding over the skull just right, getting it over the forehead and

01:29dipping into the eye socket that kind of thing. And then we go into a final

01:33detailed sculpting and creature pass and that's where you really would figure out

01:38like if she was wearing a ring you would see the ring in there or the knuckle.

01:41Ring please. Oh my god.

01:45Our heroes go to Cassandra's lair twice. The first time they go that's when

01:49Cassandra meets them all and when she puts her hands through Deadpool's face.

01:53The second time they go we call it the assault and it's the big battle near the

01:57end of the movie. That's when Wolvie gets his hands-through-face routine.

02:01What's going on in here?

02:06The assault is a really great example of just a huge collaboration between stunts, camera

02:11department, visual effects, props, everything. For a superhero movie we tried

02:15to keep the whole movie fairly grounded. Whenever we can do live-action stunts we

02:20do them always as much as we can.

02:24Emma's performance really nailed Cassandra. They just absolutely crushed it.

02:29It's really really one of the best villains I've seen in a long time.

02:32Basically a complex psychopath but a villain that we all have grown to love, to hate.

02:37Why is this so silly?

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