A climactic energy wave involving Jean Grey proved harder to solve creatively. Chen initially resisted the rainbow-like chromatic aberration familiar from other screen depictions of superpowers. But with five weeks remaining, he reversed course, deciding the established visual vocabulary served the film better than something overly electronic. “I thought it was the weakest part of the film,” he admitted. “I wish we had come up with something better.”

Time, he argued, often determines the quality of VFX more than the artists’ abilities. “If you go to a movie and you see that there’s a visual effects shot that doesn’t look that good, it’s not because there are bad artists on it,” he said. “You can tell they just ran out of time.” Chen advised supervisors facing decision fatigue to review shots within their sequences rather than obsess over individual frames.

Idk if this is controversial or not… but I feel like they work? Over the years they’ve been flirty and friends with benefits and the relationship doesn’t drag either person down.

Art by Olivier Silven

I have some X-Men casting scoop to pass along this week. Rumors have been circulating for a while that Marvel Studios is casting for the role of Bobby Drake/Iceman, but I can report that the studio is reading candidates for three more roles: Moira MacTaggert, Nightcrawler, and Gambit. Don’t be surprised if at least one of these castings becomes official in the near future.

I give the live action X-Men movies ALOT of flack but this scene?? I think it's still pretty cool.

I can't get my self to see Hope, Magik, Colossus, Scott and Magneto being close to each other in age. (5 years apart)

and this is just a selection of the most recent ones

While im currently looking at collecting the 90s comics singles - i came across this image online.. i dont recall Angel and Psylocke together when he had his red suit.. so comic or fan art? Its very good fan art if that is the case..

They are one of my favourite xmen relationships. And i know Betsy seems to have her forever couple with Rachel - but I hope before its all said and done Warren and Betsy get one more chance.

Do you think she’s wrong or right?

Rogue: love her character and is relentlessly charming and fun especially with Gambit even if the whole can’t touch anyone thing gets a little overplayed at times.

Rachel Summers: another future kid of Scott and Jean that constantly has attention stolen from other future kids.

Magneto: I’m not pro status quo and I understand that current Magneto couldn’t work as a full on villain but he’s been a hero for far too long and he was more interesting when his allegiance switched depending on who the enemy was.

Longshot: glad we got mojoworld from him but overall pretty forgettable.

Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) was introduced to her from X-Men Apocalypse so I was surprised to see she was actually a hero in the comics. Now after reading a few stories with her what the hell were they thinking? She’s awesome as a hero. Though most of her costumes are either quite sexualised or mid.

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I had a great time cosplaying my fellow curly-haired Jewish bisexual Kitty Pryde. And I was able to tell Claremont himself how much this character means to me! (She means a lot to him too, I think she might be his favorite, tbh)

So many beautiful X-Men cosplays there and everyone so friendly and welcoming! My first con was a lovely experience!

This might go against the grain of the majority, but i love these threads the most. Matching unis are GOAT'd with the sauce.