Remember When Favreau Used Practical Effects For Iron Man

Iron Man had plenty of CGI, mostly during it's final battle with Iron Monger.

The CGI involved there was much worse than it is now which is why they set the scene at night to cover it up. Something that isn't necessary anymore.

Um... they used a shit ton of Cgi almost all Cgi. They started with the practical effects but RDJ hated it. By the end it was almost all CGI.

Well this is a video of it.



You can see whenever he moves too much that it's CGI, it'd be much more noticeable if the scene was set during the day. It still holds up but you can tell. Same with Iron Man 2 when he fights Whiplash which again was another fight scene at night. The Silver Iron Man having his test flight was at night and so on.

They may have had the practical suit in the original movie but he did spend a lot more time on the ground there, like when he fought the terrorists or blew up the tank and largely while fighting Iron Monger which they got around by him not having much energy left to fly or the different suit up scenes.

They've made him much more aerial now though and you can't exactly have a practical suit for that.

The practical suits Stan's company made were cool but unfortunately there's only so much you can do with practical effects, especially with what they wanted to do in the film.

I wonder if we're finally coming out of that era.  Jurassic Park of course, the T-Rex's finest moments in the darkened rain.  I realize that dark &/or rain have forever been artistic notes, cgi or no cgi.  It just seems like so often the more memorable cgi cinematic action have been night shots.

This.