In his third appearance on the big screen, Spider-Man has to fight three villains who demand everything not only from him, but also from the effects team. DP investigated how Imageworks created characters out of sand and black mass and sent actors hurtling through the air. As if it wasn't hard enough to cope with a double identity. In the third instalment, Peter Parker aka Spider-Man (played by Tobey Maguire) also has to contend with the darker side of himself - and with three villains, two of whom are completely digital. The third, who only occasionally appears as a digital double, is his former best friend Harry Osborn (James Franco), who has followed in his father's footsteps, not to say rolled: he becomes the New Goblin, a jet-powered skateboarder. The other two villains are Sandman and Venom. Sandman is sometimes a particle version of Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church) and sometimes a cloud of dust. Venom is a symbiote: black mass that first attaches itself to Spidey and then to Ed...
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