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. 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.
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