Deadpool VFX Breakdown By Rodeo FX

For Deadpool, Rodeo FX completed 215 VFX shots (originally tasked with 100 shots) on two scenes and even helped create that amusing April Fools' Day promo in which the Merc with a Mouth killed Extra's Mario Lopez, while he was conducting an interview with Ryan Reynolds, and announced that the film would indeed be R-rated.

One of the two scenes they worked on was when Wade Wilson's skin goes through a hideous transformation while he is stuck in the torture chamber. Using time-lapse photography of rotting vegetables and meat for inspiration, Rodeo FX was able to produce believable and grotesque skin alterations that got the right reaction from the audience.

"This was my favorite sequence to work on and the most satisfying," said Wayne Brinton, VFX supervisor for Rodeo FX. "I knew we'd nailed it when the people around me in the theater gasped in disgust when they saw Deadpool's skin mutation."

Hold onto your chimichangas, folks. From the studio that brought you all 3 Taken films comes the block-busting, fourth-wall-breaking masterpiece about Marvel Comics' sexiest anti-hero! Starring God's perfect idiot Ryan Reynolds and a bunch of other "actors," DEADPOOL is a giddy slice of awesomeness packed with more twists than Deadpool's enemies' intestines and more action than prom night. Amazeballs!

The film was directed by Tim Miller, based on a screenplay by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The cast features Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool, Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Ed Skrein as Francis Freeman/Ajax, T. J. Miller as Weasel, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Stefan Kapičić as the voice of Peter Rasputin/Colossus.