“For this one with Chris, we had a very long period of look development where we tried lots of different ages and styles of aging,” explained Claus to Befores & Afters. With aging, particularly dramatically aging an actor like Chris Evans, required a bit of experimentation. Look Developmentĭe-aging an actor is a lot simpler than aging for one simple reason: photographs and footage of an actor’s earlier age can be used as a reference. Trent Claus, who was Lola’s visual effects supervisor on Avengers: Endgame, explained the process of bringing 119-year- old Captain America to life. But this time, they also had help from facial prosthetics created by Legacy Effects. Lola, once again used compositing in Flame to create their near photorealistic effects. Selling this sequence, which underpinned the whole of Rogers’ arc throughout numerous films, all hinged on Lola’s ability to convincingly age Chris Evans. The storyline brought Rogers’ arc to a satisfactory conclusion and resulted in a poignant scene involving handing over his shield to Wilson. In the film, Steve Rogers’ aging is the result of traveling back to the 1940s after returning the Infinity Stones, and living the life he never had with Peggy Carter. Endgame tackles this same storyline, albeit in a different way. As a result, Rogers retires and Sam Wilson becomes the new Captain America. In the comics, Captain America’s super-soldier serum eventually wears off resulting in his rapid aging into a normal 90-year-old body. But the scene that has generated the most interest is Lola’s aging of Chris Evans into a 119-year- old Captain America. The film is a “greatest hits” package of Lola’s work in the MCU to date with the creation of an emaciated Tony Stark, a fun Cap vs Cap fight, and the de-aging of John Slattery, Michael Douglas, and Stan Lee. Lola VFX, the vendor behind all de-aging and aging effects in Marvel’s cinematic universe, hit their high-point this year with Avengers: Endgame.
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