The Result Was an Exquisite Masterpiece: It Took Guillermo del Toro 8 Months and 3 Different Designers to Create Hellboy 2’s Most Brilliant CGI Scene

Guillermo del Toro’s films have a lot of geeky goodness in them, not just from a filmmaking point of view, but from how he employs CGI and holds his inspiration close. This is best depicted in his work in Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
The Golden Army || Credit: Sony Pictures
One of the best scenes in the film saw Hellboy and his team come face to face with the famed Golden Army, a hoard of mechanical automatons that were made to fight humankind and their never-ending encroachment on fae lands. Del Toro revealed that the scene involving the creatures was one of the production’s greatest feats, given the level of ingenuity it required to get it right.
It took three designers across eight months to get the Golden Army right Ron Perlman in Hellboy || Credit: Sony Pictures
Guillermo del Toro, speaking with Den of Geek, revealed the sheer...
The Golden Army || Credit: Sony Pictures
One of the best scenes in the film saw Hellboy and his team come face to face with the famed Golden Army, a hoard of mechanical automatons that were made to fight humankind and their never-ending encroachment on fae lands. Del Toro revealed that the scene involving the creatures was one of the production’s greatest feats, given the level of ingenuity it required to get it right.
It took three designers across eight months to get the Golden Army right Ron Perlman in Hellboy || Credit: Sony Pictures
Guillermo del Toro, speaking with Den of Geek, revealed the sheer...
- 1/4/2025
- by Anuraag Chatterjee
- FandomWire
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