‘WandaVision’: How Marvel Went Retro for Recreating the TV Sitcom World With VFX

For the wacky “WandaVision” series on Disney+, in which Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) conjures an imaginary sitcom world to cope with the death of Vision (Paul Bettany), Marvel tapped old-school VFX to recreate the various TV tropes, while at the same time relying on digital effects whenever necessary in pulling off the clever conceit.“It was fun to be able to do [retro] visual effects for the sitcom and then to be able to do full modern for a few of the episodes,” said Marvel’s production visual effects supervisor Tara DeMarco of the 3,010 shots that technically outnumbered the shot count on “Avengers: Endgame.” The black-and-white scenes for the first two episodes (“Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” and “Don’t Touch That Dial”) were depicted as era-specific as possible through makeup, costuming, camera lensing, and Tungsten lighting (used for all the period settings).“Except for the case of Vision, where we

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