Avengers: Endgame’sNew Asgard Is Way More Digital Than You Realized

The best visual effects are the ones you do n’t even know are there . In a film like Avengers : Endgame , it ’s passably obvious something like theHulk is a digital consequence . The final battle , of row , is largely put together using VFX as well . But you probably did n’t realize how something as simple and quaint as a small fishing village could be a massive digital effect too .

One of Endgame ’s many sport surprises was that the Asgardians who survived the events of Thor : Ragnarok and Avengers : Infinity War settled on a Norse shoreline in a village they renamed New Asgard . The settlement was largely shot on fix in Scotland but was inflate and alter drastically by the squad at Industrial Light and Magic , even though you may not have noticed .

“ The hills and roads were there . Buildings were there , ” pronounce VFX supervisor Russell Earl . “ But we changed the building , total edifice and added the hills coming into the hills that existed there . Then we added detail and texture to the existing walls and modified the ships . Depending on the shot , most of the time you ’re seeing construction , we replaced the buildings . “

New Asgard doesn’t look like this in real life. Credit to Industrial Light and Magic.

New Asgard doesn’t look like this in real life. Credit to Industrial Light and Magic.Image: Marvel (ILM)

The grounds for all that effect act upon is the village had to look , well , like a new version of Asgard , blending the natural locale with architectural inspirations from another planet . So the squad go back into theprevious Thor celluloid .

“ We were front at the former film and then … I’d Googled some Norwegian sportfishing villages , ” Earl said . “ The biggest [ addition ] would be the chapel service … If you reckon carefully there ’s a Christian church in there which is from Tønsberg , whichis in one of prior films . A small bit of an Easter testis . ”

You have to look for it but , in some of the establishing shots in the film , the church service looks very , very otherworldly , a clear indication of ILM ’s oeuvre .

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Asgard has a very specific look in the previous films, like Ragnarok.Image: (Disney)

That study did n’t just stop with the setting , though . The most pregnant aspect in New Asgard is when Hulk and Rocket discover a very depressed Thor hanging out with some familiar ally . ILM did that fit too , bringing back Miek and place Korg in a very familiar look shirt .

“ Taika Waititi , whodirected the last Thor movie[and playsKorg ] , has this pineapple onesie or jumper , ” Earl explained . “ There are some photographs of him on hardening where he ’s wear it proudly … and everybody thought it was uproarious . So they thought it would funny if Korg , in his downtime , sort of wore the same pineapple shirt that Taika wear on set . So we built him this small pineapple plant jumper outfit and give him some impudent flops as well . ”

As for Thick Thor , Earl confirm that the effect was almost totally prosthetics and makeup , but ILM did help out a tiny piece . “ There was some shot cleanup and in a couple of shots we added a little bit of jiggle , ” Earl aver . “ But for the most part that was makeup . ”

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