Black Adam’s VFX Supervisors Break Down the Film’s Balance of Dark Comedy & Big Action
11.18.22Black Adam is a visually wild film, even beyond the titular powerhouse and his variety of abilities. It's a film with demonic forces of nature, an entire team of colorful superheroes with different abilities and costume designs, and even an army of the dead. For all of this to work, a team of visual effects artists from around the globe came together to bring the massive DC characters to life -- with visual effects companies like Digital Domain helping visualize magic forces usually only glimpsed on the comic page.
During an interview with CBR, Black Adam's Visual Effects Supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis and Digital Effects Supervisor Greg Teegarden spoke about juggling Black Adam's brutal edge with a comical edge, the process of replicating specific panels from the original comics, working with special effects teams around the world to find new uses of classic superpowers, and what surprised them the most about working on the film.
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