Featurette: Building a Digital New York for Avengers

"Behind the Magic: Building a Digital New York for "The Avengers"" by ILMVisualFX

When you're sitting through Avengers, there isn't a doubt in your mind that the action is taking place in New York city, but you might be surprised to discover that only a tiny fraction of the film was shot in the city.  The overwhleming majority of the climactic battle scene was shot in front of a green screen using a cityscape created from thousands of pictures of New York.

"Although roughly a third of “The Avengers” is set in New York City precious little was actually filmed there. ILM crew members photographed 7-miles of city streets from a variety of heights and at different times of day totaling 250,000 images. The crew then digitally recreated roughly 20 square blocks of mid-town Manhattan using a variety of techniques. Live action shoots were held primarily on sound stages in New Mexico and in the streets of Cleveland."

Featurette: Prometheus Visual Effects

The Daily and fxguide's exclusive look at the making of the opening scene of Prometheus. Find out how the Digital wizards at WETA created the incredible disintegration of the Engineer as his DNA unwinds and he falls into the waterfall of primordial Earth.

These videos show how the special effects of the opening scene were created using a combination of practical and digital effects. The seamless combination is the reason why Prometheus is so visually captivating.

The second video deconstructs the landing of the Prometheus on the alien world where the film takes place.

Featurette: Real Steel Fight Scenes

Real Steel has outstanding fight sequences with convincingly real robots. This video shows how the scenes were created.

Featurette: Inception Corridor Sequence

Never before seen 10 minute documentary with Team Nolan explain how they filmed the rotating corridor and zero Gravity fight sequences.