How ‘Loki’ VFX Supervisor Christopher Townsend Created ‘Time Slipping’ for Season 2
Carolyn Giardina When veteran Marvel visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend — who has Oscar nominations for “Iron Man 3,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” — made his foray into TV work with Season 2 of “Loki,” the project wasn’t as different from his feature work as he anticipated. The season had a whopping 1,210 VFX shots (for comparison, “Shang Chi” had 1,761) and they were similarly distributed among a group of familiar VFX companies including Framestore, Industrial Light & Magic, Trixter, Rising Sun Pictures, FuseFX, Cantina and Lola.