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POST APRIL 2018
The Tick recently wrapped its first split season
on Amazon Video. The series mixes tongue-in-
cheek humor with the high-energy action of
an almost invulnerable superhero clad in a blue
tick costume. The always optimistic character,
who debuted as a comic book hero in the 1980s,
befriends the nebbishy Arthur, who becomes
his sidekick in their quest to save The City from
supervillain, The Terror.
FuseFX (www.fusefx.com) offices in
Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver
provided VFX for the first season's
12 episodes, which were split into
two runs in 2017 and 2018. While the
company created a diverse array of 2K
shots for the first six episodes — fly-
ing sequences, digital doubles, a bus
crash with explosions — the second
set of episodes upped the ante with
the appearance of the Very Large Man
(VLM), a 2,000-foot tall, naked man.
"Every show you work on you
push further. It's a VFX arms race," declares Chad
Wanstreet, VFX supervisor at FuseFX. "The Season
THE TICK
FuseFX's Chad Wanstreet (right) leads VFX for Amazon's The Tick.
