Visual effects artists, especially the ones that work on Marvel films, are in more demand than ever and rarely get enough credit. Nearly a dozen VFX houses contribute to one Marvel project. Perception, the Emmy-nominated design and VFX lab that has worked on 33 Marvel films and series, was assigned the challenging task of designing most of the technology seen in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
We spoke with the team at Perception about their contributions to the movie, which includes holograms, sentient AI, HUDs (head-up displays), and interfaces, along with the captivating main-end-on title sequence and the emotional tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman (who plays Black Panther) at the beginning of the movie. Perception worked on a...