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Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Ali Pardiwala | Updated: 23 February 2023 12:50 IST

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania VFX Workers Claim CGI Suffered Because Marvel Prioritised Black Panther 2: Report

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Kathryn Newton and Paul Rudd in a still from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Highlights

One artist itted to taking shortcuts and altering scenes
Another felt that the director wasn’t 100 percent clear about backgrounds
Ant-Man 3 currently has a 48 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — released in mid-February worldwide — now ranks as one of two Marvel Cinematic Universe films to receive a ‘rotten' rank on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Only 48 percent of critics awarded it a positive score, with the common point of concern being the subpar CGI backgrounds, which seemed too cheap for a film that promised beautiful visual landscapes in the form of the urban megacity of Quantum Realm. In the wake of those comments, three unidentified VFX artists who worked on Ant-Man 3 have come forward and blamed Marvel Studios for diverting its major resources and crew towards Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — leading to time constraints.

Speaking to 2018 film performed on both critical and commercial levels.

“This was like a second wave of what happened with MCU's Phase Five lineup.

Another VFX artist felt that returning director Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's backgrounds. “We had a rough environment that we were sticking a few main characters in. At that time, we weren't told where the characters should be in that environment. We were just going with what felt right,” they said. There were points where the artists were asked to recreate an actor's movement, which ideally, should have been covered while filming. Something as easy as a two-second-long shot had to be recreated digitally about 20 times — essentially, overwriting other artists' work.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has collected $284.7 million (about Rs. 2,356 crore) at the worldwide box office, serving as the strongest opening for the shapeshifting superhero trilogy. In it, the Ant Family is inadvertently transported to the Quantum Realm, a megacity ruled by the villainous Kang the Conqueror (Michael Douglas as Hank Pym.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is now playing in theatres worldwide. In India, the third Ant-Man movie is available in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.

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Release Date 17 February 2023
Language English
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Superhero
Cast
Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathryn Newton, Jonathan Majors, Bill Murray, William Jackson Harper, Jamie Andrew Cutler, David Dastmalchian
Director
Peyton Reed
Producer
Kevin Feige, Stephen Broussard

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