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© Marvel Studios, LLC.

© Marvel Studios, LLC.

Creation of the long-awaited Nordic tale generated months of work for hundreds of VFX artists. Having finished shooting about a year before its release, that left just ten months for the VFX work. In the end they had 1,305 FX shots. 

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A full 70 minutes of the film is visual effects, work that was pretty evenly split between Digital Domain (DD) in Venice, California and Buf in Paris. Whiskytree created Asgard, the Norse version of Heaven, the place that Thor comes from. One of Sewell’s favorite characters was a completely CGI creating called The Destroyer, a giant metal beast done by Luma Pictures in California.

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