George Lucas and Steven Spielberg taught Dan DeLeeuw how visual effects lights up an audience. He went to college to learn more and then got a job at Dream Quest, which included miniatures and models.

In the 1990s, DeLeeuw worked on films like ‘The Three Musketeers,’ ’The Rock,’ ‘Deep Rising,’ ‘Armageddon,’ ‘Mighty Joe Young,’ ‘Bicentennial Man’, ‘102 Dalmatians,’ and ‘The Skeleton Key.’

As visual effects started to become the norm, he stepped into a supervisor role for movies like ‘Night at the Museum,’ ‘Iron Man 3,’ ‘Captain America,’ and then the Avengers films, “Infinity War" and “Endgame.”

In this interview, the specialist talks about growing with the Marvel franchise as a storyteller, working with the Russo Brothers, the difficulties of aging and de-aging actors, how they showcase Marvel personalities in a fight, the process from script to final product, and the future of visual effects.

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