The movie Doctor Strange 2 has incredible moments, but it was able to reach the cinema with changes in some scenes.
visual effects supervisor, alexis wajsbrothas revealed interesting details about Doctor Strange 2, the Marvel Studios movie that has been a commercial success, grossing more than 945 million dollars worldwide.
In a recent interview with Befores and AftersAlexis Wajsbrot said about the scene where we see different universes:
“We started with a free fall preview, and at that point the shot was only 15-20 seconds long. Supervising Animator James King and I were saying, Oh, it would be great to mimic the Magical Mystery Tour, where it starts fast and then at some point it stops and starts again. And the world where they stop, you would see a wide view of the Multiverses. But, you know, what does a Multiverse look like? It’s not a bunch of Earths because that would be multi-Earth. It is the Multiverse. It was also where all this happened.”
They changed the ending of that scene at the last minute:
“They always started at Kamar-Taj and were supposed to end in an alley. Of course, in the movie they ended up on the roof, but that was a very late addition. That changed about three months before it hit theaters!”
This is how the passage between universes went in Doctor Strange 2:
“Initially, for all the worlds they go through, we all thought we’d be doing a lot of 2.5D where we’d be doing basic geometry and a lot of DMP and tweaking on top. But as soon as the camera starts to free fall, and as soon as the entrance was much more violent, where they were now moving much more in space, we knew we couldn’t do anything like that, and it was going to be 3D for all the worlds. ».
“It was at that point, too, that things changed. The whole concept was that they were freely falling into different types of worlds. They were always supposed to go from New York to New York in different styles and then at some point they were supposed to land in an alley, as I mentioned.”
The last-minute change impacted the dynamics of the shot:
“At some point, somewhere, they said, ‘Oh, they’re actually going to land on a rooftop now. We were already doing a lot of work in New York at ground level, but suddenly all the travel would have to be at the rooftop level, to end up on the rooftop. I thought it might change the dynamics of the shot, partly because you would only see the sky. You won’t read speed as much. And then we all said: Well, you know what? Let’s look for a transitional world that can go from street level to roof level.
It was important that Doctor Strange 2 didn’t mimic anything from the first 2016 film.
“We said, ‘Okay, what if we create some kind of old world where all of a sudden the geometry gets a little bit skewed, so all of a sudden you’re on the rooftop level because of that transition world?’
The movie Doc Strange 2 is already available in Disney Plus and you can review that transition scene between Universes as many times as you want. Marvel.