No Way Home’s narrative conceit that the villains are pulled from their climactic battles with their respective Spider-Men, means that they had to be de-aged. (Unless it was during some action sequences, where fully CG doubles of the villains were made.) Molina required a facial tracking system to remove wrinkles and tighten up skin, which was “time consuming,” but that appeared to be the most touching up. Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin was also de-aged, but apparently “very minimal,” as the team didn’t want to use any facial detail. “We kept all the detail that was in the original photography,” Port notes.
In total, No Way Home has 2,500 VFX shots, and a lot of it obviously comes from the action sequences. Putting the three Spider-Men against the ferocious five villains on Liberty Island was “all digital,” even down to Tom Holland’s costume. Because of the time it took to replace Spider-Man’s costume with his digital Iron Spider suit in those sequences, Port recounts it as being “a bit of a nail-biter.” Good thing, then, that it appears the Iron Spider suit has been apparently done with by the film’s end.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]
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