I hate to interrupt it to you, however Alligator Loki—the sensational character discover of 2021—was not an actual alligator somebody had cruelly glued an lovable Loki hat on. Instead, the Marvel TV sequence Loki was compelled to summon the true world’s foremost illusionists, i.e. Industrial Light & Magic, to create the Gator of Mischief and the present’s different myriad VFX which, as this new video showcases, was an excessive amount of work certainly.

Look, these CG reels might be hit and miss, however I’d say this one hits even when it didn’t embody Alligator Loki. It’s all stuff from the sequence’ penultimate episode, “Journey Into Mystery,” which occurs to be the one the place Richard E. Grant’s gloriously-outfitted Classic Loki conjures an phantasm of the whole thing of Asgard to distract Alioth, the enormous cloud-monster that eats issues (and other people) despatched to the Void. The video reveals how a lot element work ILM put into recreating the realm of the gods—certainly, an excessive amount of element work—after which all the pieces else that needed to be added to create the scene. Look, if the visible results studio needs to strut its stuff for a bit, I feel it’s earned it:

What’s wildest to me, nevertheless, is the very third shot within the video, the place Loki, Classic Loki, Kid Loki, and Boastful Loki are strolling throughout a grassy terrain, and ILM reveals that it added a number of tufts of barely bigger grass to dot the panorama, as a result of… I can’t even think about. Sure, it seems to be good, however it additionally seems to be vastly pointless, particularly when you must animate the rise and destruction of Asgard and a large smoke-monster stuffed with lightning mucking about in it. Hell, overlook concerning the grass and simply spend that point making one other 30 seconds of Alligator Loki splashing round in his little tub! Now that will be time effectively spent.

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