‘Avengers: Infinity War’ VFX Artists: ‘Infinity Stones Are Color Coded’

Speaking to IGN, Digital Domain’s Kelly Port and Marvel Studios’ Dan DeLeeuw, who worked on Avengers: Infinity War, mentioned that every Infinity Stone was associated with a color and that they were careful in coding each color every time a particular stone was being used or present in a scene.

DeLeeuw spoke about the infamous scene depicting Thanos and a young Gamora in what seems to be inside the Soul Stone, saying he thought of it as a bloody vault:

“We just explore quite a few different things and play around with the idea that it was a sort of vault, or as if we were in the Soul Stone, for example. But I think it ended up taking me playing around with the spread water as if… we had a lot of blood involved.”

He even refers to that space in the Soul Stone as “the way station”:

“It was interesting, because Thanos being that lead character, normally… you can get very introspective. The metaphysical way station came along, and we think, that would be interesting. But from a storytelling perspective, I thought it was really wonderful that that sequence stayed in there, because [it’s] really a nice kind of pause. Like, it just goes straight from the snap to people flipping out. It had this moment of reflection, which I thought was really nice just in the narrative, reflecting about what he has done.”

After that, Port clarified that they were careful about which colors they used each time a stone was present:

“We’re always trying to color code anything the different Stones would do. Whenever you use the Power Stone it was purple, whatever you use the Space Stone it was blue, and so kind of hitting on the orange kind of tied into that.”

As a final comment, Port mentioned that she didn’t think that place, the “way station,”  actually existed and the one person that really knows the nature of these kinds of scenes is Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios.

Avengers: Infinity War is available in digital formats, as well as DVD, Blu-Ray and Ultra HD 4K. Thanos will return in Avengers 4. Here is the synopsis:

A culmination of 22 interconnected films the fourth installment of the Avengers saga will draw audiences to witness the turning point of this epic journey. Our beloved heroes will truly understand how fragile this reality is and the sacrifices that must be made to uphold it.

Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, Avengers 4 is expected to star Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Paul Rudd, Jeremy Renner, Brie Larson, Josh Brolin and Chris Pratt.

Avengers 4 is scheduled to be released in theaters on May 3, 2019.

Source: IGN