For Ryan Reynolds’ anti-superhero movie Deadpool, released earlier this year, the visual effects team over at Rodeo FX had their work cut out for them. Rather than smooth out a few lines on Reynolds’ face here and there, they were tasked with making him look like he’d survived a series of horrifying stress tests that resulted in head-to-toe scar tissue. In a short video and accompanying interview, the visual effects supervisors break down how they used rotting vegetables and meat as visual references to transform People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”