How Does Hollywood Achieve Those Special Effects?

Published on August 7, 2019 By Chloe Draws

X-Men: Days of Future Past

For 17 years, Hugh Jackman played Wolverine, a mutant who can heal himself in only a few seconds. It doesn’t matter if he’s shot, stabbed, or attacked, he can rejuvenate back to normal right away.

Humans aren’t as powerful as mutants and so our actor relied on prosthetics and CGI to achieve some of those more intense scenes. One of them, pictured here, is when Wolverine had snakes crawling out of his body. That’s gross!