For Season 5 of Stranger Things, Wētā FX’s VFX Supervisor Martin Hill and his team tackled roughly 1,100 shots across all eight episodes, bringing to life everything from the nightmare-inducing Mind Flayer and Demogorgon to the seriously unsettling “Vecna 2.0.” They even pulled off a digital transformation that made Will Byers look like his Season 1 self. If you found yourself staring at the screen thinking, “There is absolutely no way they actually made that,” there’s a very good chance Martin and his team were behind it.
Hill is no stranger to impossible-looking work. His credits include an Emmy-winning Game of Thrones run, an Oscar nomination for Prometheus, and an Oscar win shared with the Wētā team. Now, with another Primetime Emmy nomination for Stranger Things Season 5, Awards Buzz’s Sari Cohen sits down with Martin for a deep dive into the magic—and madness—behind the monsters.
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