Purely History on Instagram: "In Spider-Man 3, released in 2007, the creation of Sandman was one of the film’s most technically impressive achievements. Portrayed by Thomas Haden Church, the character required a combination of live-action performance, motion capture, and highly detailed computer-generated imagery to simulate realistic sand behavior on a massive scale. The visual effects team, led by Sony Pictures Imageworks, spent months studying the physics of sand—how it poured, scattered, and