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Daniel picked up really nice little details which proves they know each other very well. “He was dressed like George and Fred et cetera,” said Aithadi, “and we did beauty passes of him acting out the transformations, using some attributes of the other characters. A second set of plates involved Radcliffe acting out every character. To shoot the plate, all the characters – George, Fred, Ron, Hermione, Fleur and Mundungus – were shot on set acting out the transformation, sometimes adjusting their height to be the same as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe). “The idea,” explained Aithadi, “was that we would never end up on Harry, meaning we would never have a complete transformation of any of the actors to the real Harry – we would keep say the nose of George – it was always a hybrid version.” MPC produced some artwork of all the different formations to give the director an idea of what they would look like, going for both subtle and completely cartoony renderings. We talked to overall vfx supe Tim Burke about what technology to use and we tested different approaches and equipment, then very quickly settled for the Contour system from Mova, which was able to give us fine details.”
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“The idea was to have one single shot and it was originally to be around a table, but that changed a little later in the production. “We talked about the polyjuice sequence very early in production, and basically started working from the pages of the book,” said MPC visual effects supervisor Nicolas Aithadi. They drink polyjuice potion, a magical formula that transforms each member into a version of Harry. MPC makes multiple Harrys, helps Order escape from Privet Drive and conjures NaginiĮarly in the film, the Order of the Phoenix seeks to safely deliver Harry to the Burrows, deciding to disguise themselves as several Harrys in the hope of thwarting any attacks from Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Led by visual effects supervisor Matt Twyford, those shots included the snitch, Hermione’s magic handbag, the cafe wand shoot-out, various spells, the horcrux locket’s underwater attack on Harry, moving pictures in newspapers and photographs, environments and the final scene when Voldemort breaks open Dumbledore’s tomb to steal the Elder Wand.
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The original brief was for them to be inside the courtroom which was a very dark environment, so they were enveloped in smoke to read the silhouette.”īaseblack was behind 300 shots on Deathly Hallows: Part 1, more than any other vendor. “But you can get a lot of emotion from them even though they are just a head, two sticky arms and the flowing cloth that has a seaweedy underwater feeling. “The Dementors were really just a black silhouette,” said Rising Sun visual effects supervisor Tony Clark. Rising Sun also created the Dementors, updated from previous appearances in the film franchise. For the shot of Snape arriving at Malfoy Manor, the character appears initially in Death Eater form using Maya cloth for the rob and Houdini for the smoke that made up the body. Rising Sun Pictures completed work on Death Eaters, Dementors and the locket horcrux. Drawing on the early animation work of Lotte Reiniger’s hand-cut paper silhouettes, artists relied on Maya and textures created in Nuke to tell the story.Ĭlick here for our interview with Framestore sequence supervisor Dale Newton Rising Sun’s Dementors and Death Eaters The characters were entirely realised by keyframe animation and used multiple subsurface scattering techniques.Ĭlick here for our in-depth podcast with Christian Manz on how Dobby and Kreacher were createdįramestore’s Commercials team was behind the ‘Tale of the Three Brothers’ animated sequence, directed by Ben Hibon. Additional shots included Diagonalley set extensions, kitten plates in Professor Umbridge’s ministry office and the Deatheater attack on the Lovegood house, the kids apparating away and the house destruction.Ĭlick here for an in-depth podcast with Dneg’s David Vickery on making magic for the film Framestore’s character animation and the Three Brothers sequenceĭobby the house-elf and Kreacher were the creations of Framestore, led by visual effects supervisor Christian Manz. Dneg worked on extensions of the Burrows house and surrounding environments, the setting up of the marquee for Bill and Fleur’s wedding, as well as the Patronus, Death Eaters, fire, the magical battle and confetti butterflies. Double Negative’s magicĭouble Negative, under visual effects supervisor David Vickery, created 166 shots for the film. In this article we continue our coverage of the film by focussing on the signature shots by MPC and Cinesite and the work of Double Negative, Framestore, Rising Sun Pictures and Baseblack. Several visual effects shops contributed to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 under overall vfx supe Tim Burke.