Harry Potter ends in a flood of VFX
Framestore finishes VFX work on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, marking the end of ten years of helping to bring the world created by JK Rowling to magical life
Framestore finishes VFX work on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, marking the end of ten years of helping to bring the world created by JK Rowling to magical life
Cinesite has completed visual effects for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, including Lord Voldemort’s snake-like features, the ghost of Dumbledore, and a Patronus doe.
MPC completed over 180 shots for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, including bringing Nagini the snake to life, creating digi-doubles for the ‘polyjuice transformation’ sequence and carrying out extensive environment work.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 sees Framestore providing some of its finest work yet, including recreated house-elves, a magical animated storybook sequence and other dazzling VFX- 110 shots in all.
During the making of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt1 and pt2, Fired By Design caught up with award-winning VFX supervisor David Vickery for a Q&A session
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