Inside a Hybrid Production

The Gray Lady details here how one of Rampage's action scenes was put together.

"The action with Dwayne and Naomi was real... The angles with George [the giant ape] were were a plate. ... And we did face capture with Dwayne on the skydiver because we weren't going to have Dwayne and Naomi sky-diving. ..."

It's been true for a couple of decades now: any blockbuster worth its salt has massive amounts of animation in it. You can call any super-hero feature a hybrid animated movie because without animators and compositors sitting at their computers working long hours, the motion picture won't exist. You'll just have actors in funny costumes emoting in front of green screens.

So the trick for our fine, entertainment conglomerates? Find the effects house with the lowest bid for the work that you can, and the country that gives you the biggest dollop of free money.