

In fact, Weta’s VFX Supervisor Sean Walker, who has worked on the VFX for many Marvel movies, and his team, worked almost exclusively on the final act battle in Ta Lo, which if you’ve seen the movie, could involve some spoilers, which is why we’ve waited so long to share our interview with Mr.
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In fact, Below the Line already spoke with someone at Scanline VFX about Shang-Chi - you can read that interview here - and we already knew New Zealand’s Weta Digital had also done some work on the movie, because… well, Weta kind of works on every big action/VFX movie eventually, because they’re that good. One thing that anyone working in visual effects already knows - as well as anyone who has sat through the very tail end of a Marvel movie for what they call the “tag”– is that it takes a LOT of people at a lot of different VFX houses to make a movie like Shang-Chi. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Simu Liu in the title role, Shang-Chi contains all the action of other Marvel movies but adds another layer of magic and wonder when it comes to the hidden village of Ta Lu where Shang-Chi finally confronts his father Wenwu ( Tony Leung ) who plans to use those ten rings in the title to do bad things.

As the highest-grossing movie of 2021 so far, Marvel Studios ’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has clearly caught the fancy of moviegoers looking for some big screen epic fantasy.
