Today I finished my drawing of Gamora, one of my all time favourite Marvel characters. She is super interesting to watch because of her character and appearance. I thought it would be fun to draw a picture of her; including her colourful skin and hair, and line work.
I think it turned out as fun and colourful as I wanted. I didn’t intend to copy Zoe’s face but to exaggerate her features a bit and make it more stylised/cartoon-ish. I still went in on detail, though.
In a turn of events last week, Marvel came to my town to film scenes of the Avengers in Durham Cathedral.
I love Marvel movies and a lot of us think of them whenever we’re asked to talk about VFX and what our goals would be with it. It’s so close to where I live I had to see what was going on and it was fascinating. Lots of vans were parked outside each for different things such as lighting, props and more. It showed how much is needed just to film a scene in one location.
The stain glass windows were totally covered also, as I assume on the inside were either green screens or black screens to stop the real sky being shown, so they can make it look like it was in a different location. The fact that they did that shows a huge amount of physical props are used during filming to help the post production VFX. I heard the scene is set in Asgard and the inside of the Cathedral had some harnesses, green screens and props in place, so the windows will probably show that.
It was interesting to go to and the atmosphere was different to regular Durham. In summer there are people around the cathedral, but (though you cant totally tell) lots of people were huddled on the grass and talking to security guards trying to see inside. Some people signed up to be extras and some met Chris Hemsworth nearby. I was just happy to finally see a real movie set which is WAY more complex than I would expect for a non studio scene. I realised more prep goes into it with equipment- even in outside locations- than I guessed.
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