Everybody is acutely aware of their own ageing, and then also the ageing of their parents and things like that. So there’s a lot more subjectivity in terms of the filmmakers. Because unlike de-ageing where you are aiming towards a reference, with ageing there’s nothing to go off of. There was a lot – a tremendous amount, actually – of lookdev that was involved. Try and get the angles and things that we need so that we would have that on set reference for lighting and textures. Hold this pose, hold that pose, that sort of thing. He would watch whatever Chris did on set and duplicate it as well as he could, then I would direct him to look a little more to his left, look a little more to his right. In this case it was a gentleman named Patrick Gorman who’s a really phenomenal actor. And we shot Chris doing all the takes and the performance first, just like we’ve always done with de-ageing, or even with skinny Steve back on the first Captain America.Īnd then we shot a picture double. That was in Atlanta – it was actually at a farm outside of Atlanta. So he looked kind of strange on set! He looked like young Chris Evans but with an old neck and crow’s feet.
We just ended up going in a different direction.Īnd then Chris wore tracking dots on the rest of his face. Subsequently, in post production we removed those. On set he wore prosthetic crow’s feet by his eyes. Everything from beneath the chin to the collar of his shirt is a prosthetic.
And then he was wearing a prosthetic on his neck. We wanted to avoid having to deal with any of Chris Evans’ hair, if possible, so he was wearing a bald cap with wig. There were some prosthetics involved and we worked with Legacy Effects on that. Here, Lola visual effects supervisor Trent Claus breaks down each of these digital make-up challenges for befores & afters. Cap fight (which is the subject of this other #endgameweek story at befores & afters). The studio also carried out a number of de-ageing shots for the return to past-New York, and they worked on the Cap vs.
Since then, Lola and other studios have advanced the art in enormous ways.Īvengers: Endgame included a multitude of digital make-up shots completed by Lola, from the emaciated Tony Stark, to the young Howard Stark, young Hank Pym and young Stan Lee, and to the old Captain America. Spoilers! When Lola VFX crafted Skinny Steve in Captain America: The First Avenger, audiences stood up and took notice at what digital make-up and digital de-ageing (and ageing) could do. #endgameweek is brought to you by Masters of FX. How Lola VFX shaped Tony Stark’s sickness, gave Hank Pym some hip, aged Captain America, and made Stan Lee young again.
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