Marvel has a “crash course” for directors new to VFX

“You don’t really see linear progress on a film – for visual effects its very much a lot of overhead, days go slow, and then they ramp up rapidly at the end of the show,” Bialek explained. “It takes a little while for someone who’s not familiar with it to get comfortable with the idea that you don’t see a lot of progress… until you sort of figure out the key shots.”

Even that can vary a bit from studio to studio. Bialek noted that while Disney likes to use a bunch of visual effects houses for its movies, Sony likes to keep things in-house, meaning that the work flow is very different.

Like Waititi, Jon Watts had a short list of credits before he jumped to Spider-Man: Homecoming, with small movies like Cop Car on his list. Before they helmed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Civil War, and the two upcoming Avengers films, Joe and Anthony Russo had mostly had experience directing the ensemble show Community on NBC. Many of these choices have paid off in spades for Marvel, as these are some of the best-loved MCU flicks, so it makes sense that they’d want to get a process in place to help those directors do their work on a whole new scale. The upcoming Black Panther‘s director, Ryan Coogler, has had more recognition than some of those directors thanks to 2015’s Creed, but once again, the scale is altogether different.

Based on early buzz, it sounds like Marvel’s director selection is going to pay off again. We’ll find out when Black Panther hits theaters on February 16, 2018.

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