Procedural approach to animation driven effects for Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame presented a unique challenge for the FX department at Weta Digital, which was responsible for the myriad of FX that underlined the final battle. We combined a high volume of pure FX with tasks mainly influenced by animation, such as tracer fire, thrusters, squibs, explosions and missile trails.

To accomplish this, we examined the shots in previs and tried