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Spider-Man: No Way Home’s VFX supervisor Chris Waegner reveals Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man models were rebuilt for the film.
Spider-Man: No Way Home visual effects supervisor Chris Waegner revealed the VFX team rebuilt Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man models from the bottom up.
In an interview with VFX magazine Befores and Afters, Waegner explained how the team approached the return of Maguire and Garfield. “We began re-building our digital Spider-Men assets, utilizing detailed LiDAR scans and photography,” Waegner said. “The Sony Imageworks team has built these characters in the past for previous films, but since technology has evolved, most of these previous assets were used for proportional reference, and it became clear we had to start over and rebuild new Spider-Men.”
According to Waegner, the FX team also had to account for the changes in Maguire and Garfield’s age since their last portrayals as Spider-Man. “Another key decision in building the new Spider-Men was that the actor’s physical appearance had changed as they aged. Luckily for us, the studio has maintained its in-depth photographic history of what the original suits look like for both Tobey and Andrew for our build process.”
Maguire last played Peter Parker in 2007’s Spider-Man 3, while Garfield’s most recent outing as the web-slinger was in 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Considering Maguire is now 46 and Garfield is 38, it comes as no surprise that the No Way Home VFX team had to reassess the way the two looked and moved in their suits.
The climactic battle of the film saw Maguire and Garfield’s characters unite with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man in a fight against a number of multiversal villains, including Green Goblin, Electro and Sandman. Taking place on the Statue of Liberty, the battle gave fans exciting shots of all three Spider-Men fighting as a team and swinging alongside each other.
This final battle presented a challenge for the VFX team, who had to ensure the individual characteristics of each Spider-Man were clearly visible throughout. “Early on it was quite challenging because their suits are pretty similar in tonal values, and since our sequence takes place at night, this only exacerbated their individual readability,” Waegner added. “We focused our efforts on really bringing forward each of the Spider-Men’s physical personalities or their individual spider-style, if you will — how they swung, how they shoot webs, their physical proportions when they achieve an iconic pose.”
Spider-Man: No Way Home is in theaters now. Pre-orders are available now for the digital release of the film.
Source: Befores and Afters
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