How ‘Loki’ VFX Supervisor Christopher Townsend Created ‘Time Slipping’ for Season 2
variety.comCarolyn Giardina When veteran Marvel visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend — who has Oscar nominations for “Iron Man 3,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
2” and “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” — made his foray into TV work with Season 2 of “Loki,” the project wasn’t as different from his feature work as he anticipated.
The season had a whopping 1,210 VFX shots (for comparison, “Shang Chi” had 1,761) and they were similarly distributed among a group of familiar VFX companies including Framestore, Industrial Light & Magic, Trixter, Rising Sun Pictures, FuseFX, Cantina and Lola.
And as one would expect, they also had to maintain the highest standard for the effects. “We’re seeing such high-quality work being produced for television,” Townsend says.
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