When you watch movies these days, can you tell what’s real and what’s created by visual effects? Sometimes I can and other times I can’t. It’s amazing to see how everything comes together in the end. If you appreciate the hard work that goes into creating visual effects, check out these two VFX breakdown for Marvel’s ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ and Michael Bay’s ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ by Industrial Light and Magic Visual Effects.

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’:

‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’:

We are proud to present a sampling of of ILM’s visual effects work for Michael Bay’s ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’. This reel represents a fraction of the work created by over 400 artists, scientists, and engineers backed up by a world-class production team.

The film’s Visual Effects Supervisor, Scott Farrar, was honored with the Hollywood Visual Effects Award on November 14, 2014.