I'm thinking that they could've shot footage of a guy in a suit, then rotoscoped it with cel animation.

Just a thought, since there is other rotoscoped / cartoon cel animation in the film.  Most notably the birds in the Skull Island scenes.

The Empire State building climb is done with two separate scenes in the film as I recall.  Both are from the same wide distant angle. The second shot, as he climbs to the upper portions of the building, if you look close he kind of slides a little. Covering more distance than his climbing actions would cause.  He surely got a post-production assist.

That picture of Buzz...  Are we sure that is even the Empire State Building miniature?  Could be one of the other handful of buildings he climbed.  It is hard to tell from that backlit shot.


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