Lighting, shape and interactions with sound were additional challenges that were explored and resolved by the Animal Logic team, before getting to another big question – what does cyberspace look like?Īs ULTRON comes online, the consciousness explores his environment, the environment of data that is the Internet. “Once the director was happy with the design, the challenge for us was how the actors (Robert Downey Jr and Mark Ruffalo) interacted with the representations of JARVIS and ULTRON in a 3 dimensional space,“ said Paul. The end result was the orange glowing ‘aura’ of Jarvis, full of angular shapes reminiscent of computer circuitry, and the blue ‘aura’ for Ultron, which represented a much more advanced version of Stark’s A.I., one that had a much more organic, biological feel to the design. Using the research as a starting point, the team worked with Chris and Josh until they had something that satisfied everyone involved. With Animal Logic having a particular expertise in this kind of design and execution, Paul and his team of digital artists set about realising a vision of the two very different operating systems of JARVIS (voiced by Paul Bettany) and ULTRON (voiced by James Spader). “We start by doing visual research for cool images that might relate to the brief such as interesting sculptures, photography or a painting and we put together a mood board that was over 50 pages of ideas for the piece,” said Animal Logic’s Executive Producer, Jason Bath helper – and ULTRON – the peacekeeping programme that awakens in cyberspace and decides that the world would be a safer place without the Avengers, and the humans they fight to protect.

The task served was to design and create a visually stunning representation of both JARVIS – Tony Stark’s trusted A.I. “He and Joss (Whedon) know the kind of work we could do, and gave us a certain amount of creative freedom to come up with various ideas.” “We have a good relationship with Chris Townsend, Marvel’s Visual Effects Supervisor,” said Animal Logic VFX Supervisor, Paul Butterworth.

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