10 CGI Movie Moments NOBODY Noticed

CGI blood is incredibly common nowadays, especially for action and horror films where practical squibs are enormously time-consuming to reset, as actors will need to change into a clean version of their costume for each take, and the set may need to be cleaned between setups.

But it's less common to see CG blood in films with only occasional spatters of the red stuff, and few were likely aware that the vast majority of the blood in Todd Phillips' 2019 Joker was indeed added during post-production.

Even though some of the blood-letting is definitely noticeable, such as Arthur Fleck's (Joaquin Phoenix) murder of talk show host Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro), there's one moment of CGI gore that basically nobody caught.

At the very end of the film, when Arthur fully embraces the Joker persona by climbing on top of a cop car and drawing a bloody smile across his face, that was actually a visual effect.

Phillips revealed that to avoid re-doing Phoenix's makeup after every take, they decided to simply have Phoenix pretend to wipe the blood on his face, with the VFX team then adding it afterwards.

It's certainly an impressively invisible effect, and given that a big-budget movie is basically setting money on fire every time they have to stop to reset something, it absolutely makes sense that they went this route.