Spiderman: Far From Home - Illusion Battle 02

I had the privilege of vfx art directing the "Illusion Battle" in Spiderman: Far From Home, in what turned out to be a creative roller-coaster and a collaborative union of the Framestore art department and vfx.

Here’s a concept exploring the surreal idea of Spiderman being trapped in a snow globe which ends up being Mysterio’s globe helmet. This was the first concept I had tackled which at the time was a one-off before I ended up art directing the sequence with vfx supervisor Alexis Wajsbrot. Scale was a big problem to solve in this shot (is spidy small and the snow globe real-world scale, is he life size and the snow globe huge, etc) along with visual optical effects like refraction/sub surface of snow/chromatic aberration, volumetrics, and visibility through the glass. Using Octane render really helped to answer those questions. I passed my 3D scene to vfx to use a starting point for the vfx, hence taking it so far in 3D.

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