Did it feel as big for you on the design side as it felt for us on the audience side? Let’s talk about that final battle scene with all of the heroes of the MCU taking on Thanos’ army. He’s not overly flamboyant or histrionic, but you know he means business, and it was important to feel that seething undercurrent of anger. That wouldn’t really have played well if you didn’t have a sense of that seething resentment he feels. He’s looked forward into the future and saw what happened in Infinity War and realized his plan just isn’t going to work - so he essentially decides to destroy the whole universe. We felt that it was really important that you could identify with his decisions on an emotional level. We did do some more work on the technology that we use to animate facial performance to capitalize on some recent developments there. Did your process change at all for Endgame? Thanos was so well-received in both films because of how well you could understand and empathize with his emotions, even when there wasn’t any dialogue. You have to reflect that in his animation style. In Infinity War, he’s more of a philosopher, musing over his past exploits with Doctor Strange on Titan. There’s that scene when he’s fighting Iron Man and Thor and Captain America early on and he’s incredibly powerful. We reflected all of that in the way we animated him - particularly in the fight sequences. So we conceived him as a slightly younger, more agile, more powerful Thanos. He’s Thanos, but he’s four years younger than he was in Infinity War because he’s coming from 2014. Did the character feel different this time? Your team did work on Thanos for Infinity War and then again in Endgame. Even into the beginning of this year, we got material to work on. That was scheduled for September and October of last year. We delivered our last shots for Infinity War in April last year, then production scheduled a period to shoot the sequence that we were going to be working on, the third-act battle. It definitely felt like two films, one project, because we rolled straight off Infinity War and into Endgame. “It definitely felt like two films, one project, because we rolled straight off Infinity War and into Endgame.”
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