This is something that the film’s director Taika Waititi oddly joked about in a video from the Vanity Fair "Notes on a Scene" series that was ostensibly about highlighting the craft of all who worked on it. It ends up taking you out of the film, breaking the immersion of the experience. It isn’t just Jane’s helmet either, there are many moments throughout the film that look rushed. This is what creates odd moments as we saw in Thor: Love and Thunder. ![]() ![]() It is tough going when there is not enough time to, say, create a helmet on a character’s head that will show up throughout an entire film. While miracles happen and workers can create some stunning creations under tough circumstances that blow us away when we see them, this isn’t always the case. When you require more of them but don’t plan to give more time to those creating them, you end up with whatever they could finish under the pressure and constraints of a looming deadline. More and more films are requiring special effects shots that used to be a rarity. In his insightful piece “Bad Special Effects Are A Choice,” Defector writer Drew Magary also points out that this is a problem that comes down to scale. So when criticism is levied at these films and how their effects are subpar, the fault typically lies at the feet of those at the top for how little time they left to the artists themselves. This means when we see Jane wearing a helmet that looks more like a Snapchat filter than a believable effect, it is because somewhere in production a worker was doing the best they could in a limited amount of time. RELATED: VFX Community Slams Marvel Studios Over Working Conditions There is also no guarantee that their job will be still around at the end as there have been closures following the release of award-winning films, leaving workers out in the cold. ![]() In addition to being brutal to the workers, it produces work that is noticeably rushed. Stories of workers pulling grueling 17-hour days that then bleed into the weekend have become commonplace. This is what is known as “ crunch,” a term that refers to when workers are given a crushing amount of work with minimal time to get everything done before a film is released in theaters. There is an industry-wide issue when it comes to overworking CGI artists on tighter and tighter deadlines. The star in the center of Thor's Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years.It raises the question of how, in a massive moneymaking franchise with some of the biggest budgets out there, can this seem to not only keep happening but be getting worse? Well, the answer is both specific to Marvel and to movies more broadly. This remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters, capturing not only natural looking stars but details of the nebula's filamentary structures. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. ![]() Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages.
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