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One of the first films to attempt the computer-generated de-aging process was X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006 for a flashback scene starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Two years later, the visual effects team behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button followed suit in order to make Brad Pitt’s title character age backward multiple […]

The process of making actors look older or younger is certainly not new; it was traditionally done with makeup effects. But in more recent years, the practical approach has largely given way to digital techniques. On Captain Marvel, for instance, Lola VFX de-aged Samuel L. Jackson, while on Avengers: Endgame the studio aged Captain America, while also ‘youthening’ several […]

Lola makes the list for four of the ten movies that changed CGI this decade: – Social Network – Captain America: The First Avenger – Captain Marvel -Captain America: Civil War https://www.insider.com/movies-that-changed-cgi-decade-2019-12

https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/08/07/heres-what-avengers-endgame-chris-evans-looked-like-old-steve-rogers-vfx/ “God damn is Marvel good at aging and de-aging,”

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/how-samuel-l-jackson-was-de-aged-for-just-about-all-of-captain-marvel-171794.html

Scrub to 5:20 … https://youtu.be/CxVSntUcYRg  

Fury has two working eyes, a full head of hair and a (slightly) less cantankerous attitude: he’s a low-level S.H.I.E.L.D. bod, and this is his first glimpse of the bigger world out there. Jackson’s CGI facelift is hands-down the best example of digital de-aging yet seen in movies (more impressive even than co-star Clark Gregg’s […]

Of course, no Marvel Studios solo movie is ever really ‘solo,’ and Captain Marveloutfits its lead with one the most impressive supporting casts they’ve assembled, including Samuel L. Jackson delivering not just his best Nick Fury performance yet (the veteran spy as badass and witty as ever), but also doing his part to change cinematic […]

When a Starforce mission goes awry, Vers winds up back on Earth, where her arrival is investigated by a young S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Nick Fury. He’s played, as in The Avengers and Iron Man franchises, by Samuel L. Jackson — only this time he’s been de-aged about 25 years with the help of special effects. […]

Larson and Jackson have terrific buddy-movie chemistry, whether they’re giving each other grief or covering each other’s behinds. We’ve seen “de-aging” technology before, e.g., Michael Douglas in “Ant-Man,” Kurt Russell in “Guardians Vol. 2” and Robert Downey Jr. in “Captain America: Civil War,” but the magic reaches new levels here. The 70-year-old Jackson and the […]