Director Zack Snyder set the film in a post-zombie apocalypse. But there was one slight problem: the film was set in Las Vegas, and key rooftop sequences were needed. The team were met with hard nos from all the hotel/ casino management teams. "They wanted nothing to do with us," says visual effects supervisor Marcus Taormina. Not only could the production not access roofs, but they couldn't get onto the casino properties at all. Snyder took his crew to Atlantic City, N.J., and Albuquerque, N.M. For realism, the VFX team created a digital map of the Vegas skyline and replicated it in VFX. Taormina says creating the zombie tiger Valentine's design was the biggest challenge because there needed to be a sense of believability to the animal. Sny- der gave Taormina a 2D concept of ideas for Valentine's face, and the VFX team started to model and sculpt it in 3D, making it feel real. The VFX team finally found help from an unlikely source: Baskin's Big Cat Rescue, now famous for Netflix's "Tiger King" series. The Big Cat Rescue team helped Taormina get close to tigers, involving them during feeding times so they could get the necessary shots of the real-life dimensions to build and create a photo-real Valentine.

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