I love that transition. It sells it really well. The changing back into themselves in the Slytherin common room is not bad either but the bathroom one is superior imo.
People fail to mention about how there is absolutely no music behind the entire fight scene in the ministry between DD and voldemort. Really added to the suspense of the scene and immerses the viewer even further into that world to the point where It almost seemed real in a sense.
Yeah, and how they managed to make the wrecked house look okay again. There's the little detail with Harry stepping on a piece of the chandelier that was so cute.
Deathly hallows: when they’re inside Bellatrix’s vault and everything starts replicating...so complicated because the actors seem to have to keep jumping and touching physical objects that weren’t there but keep being replicated and exponentially increasing!! HOW!? HOW CORRIDOR!
There were practical solutions for harry, he had to climb on something to get to the goblet. Everything else was simulated/animated around the actors. Most of the objects ended up being in the foreground for less masking work. The actors had to pretend like there were objects flying around them. Very difficult but not impossible!
That Dumbledore and Voldemort battle is especially cool because it really shows the capabilities of master wizards. There's not really any other part of the series where you can really see people pushing the magic to its limits like that. There are a lot of spells, but they're mainly done by the main characters, who are all younger and still learning, whereas Dumbledore and Voldemort are actual masters. I wish we could have seen more crazy magic like that in the rest of the series
I feel like JK didn't think up enough surrounding the magic system to really make that work. We have no real indicator for what the magic comes from, what fuels it, what you can and can't do exactly without a wand, how impactful your own vs another's wand really is, how you can improvise or create spells etc. I love the books to death, re-read them all the time, but the real focus of the story was always more a magical new world to explore and a mystery to solve. It was never truly about the magic, except for very few storybeats almost at the very end. Stuff like learning nonverbals, self-made spells, detecting magic just by touch, casting without a wand all only really came around in the 6th book onwards. What Voldy and Dumby are doing in this fight is barely based on any spells we know. We got some base spells like aguamenti, serpensortia, protego, incendio etc., but they're all blasted to an absolute extreme. The only other power-scaling example we have are patronus charms, which can be weak mist, substantial bursts, creatures and creatures that talk. The rest of the spells all only slightly grow in power and most of them are just "dude gets knocked back more", almost regardless what the base spell even is. Impedimenta and expelliarmus just work like knockbacks, strong reducto is basically just confringo and so on. I feel like if there had been slightly more books, with a bit more focus on the magic itself in the later school years, a more robust system to base them on and a better villain structure we'd get those high impact magic battles. But as it was, we only really got this one fight, a hint at the Grindelwald spectacle and lots of "Harry uses expelliarmus". The golden flames his wand reflexively spit out were interesting, but then only turned into a minor plot point to shoehorn in the hallows. Man, I wish JK had actually put in some more effort and brushed up on her writing throughout the books. We could have whole generations of Harry Potter/Hogwarts chronicles telling stories in that world and instead she just took all the money she could and tried everything to get more, while never improving.
@@dowfreak7 I wish we got more of the book's battles inside the ministry. Big floating brains, Dumbledore animating the sculptures of the fountain and them jumping in front of spells to protect Harry, etc.
Harry Potter requests: - The Basilik - The polyjuice potion in chamber of secrets - Lupin turns into a werewolf - Harry and Buckbeak - The dementor train scene in prisioner of azkaban - The "Dumbledore has style" scene - Dumbledore horrocrux's cave scene - All the Gringotts scenes of deathly hallows part 2 - The battle of Hogwarts - Harry vs Voldemort (final fight)
I would like to know the crews thoughts on the 3d effects of Voldemorts death and the way he flakes away. It was the first time, and only time, since Avatar that I was impressed by 3D in a movie.
The scene where harry meats slughirn for the first time, him turning from a armchair to a man, and where the house is restored! That scene really makes you feel like it's magic
The UK is definitely the best when it comes to Practical effects and camera work, it's quite common that big Hollywood movies will come to the UK to use our methods and equipment.
Please look at the dementors, especially when they are introduced in the third movie on the train. The flying car in the second movie. The door to the room of requirement in the fifth movie.
One of my favorite things about this channel is how they give credit where it's due. "None of this would have looked as good if half of it wasn't practical". They know the limits of their own craft.
And compare that one to the scene in number 7 part 2 (film 8) where they escape on the back of another dragon! It'd be good to see the contrasting dragon scenes, and the advances.
The magic style changes A LOT as the films continue. Which magic aesthetic is your favorite? And THE CAR!! THE SPIDERS! Or maybe babymort? There's so much to talk about
@@Coolgamer54321 the effect in Order of the Phoenix is closer to whats described in the book. That being said they should have just committed to one effect, changing it was weird.
yeah this was a bad change because the world has to be at least somewhat consistent. like, compare the dementors in Azkaban with the later movies - the CGI later is obviously better, and they changed a few of the elements so they were more smokey and ghost-like, but overall the design and look is pretty similar. you can show an advancement in technology that is acceptable and recognized by viewers without completely changing it and throwing everyone off.
i'm not sure how they got it to match up at the start. but the shake is clearly digital. so one shot is done moving forward, the other moving backward and then the forward on is reversed and shake is added to both + that motion blur effect to the reversed one. they would have to comp them infront maybe by hand or with a blue screen. I'm not certain though.
That scene always bothered me, because in the story Harry wakes up to discover that Sirius needs help, but when you go back the last two hours, you see him fully conscious in the hospital wing.
Ralph Fienes just killed it as voldemort. The way he was able to make the character so expressive WITHOUT eyebrows is insane. Being able convey those emotions without them is insanely difficult but he absolutely nailed it.
Would not have helped. They had a lot of time and preparation for Voldemort, including several scans as mentioned. For Superman those scenes were reshoots, meaning 0 prep for VFX and short on time before release so they had to rush it. This was not the fault of VFX artists but of poor planning.
@@Exoclypse yeah they shoot most of the scene in justice league when cavill was growing his stache for Mission impossible if I'm not wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@sssharefff In fact Cavill had already started shooting for Mission Impossible. He had to go back and forth between England and America to shoot the scenes.
Same with the Food in the Hall. In the first Movie the Food were all real, and after that they used plastic fake food because most of the real food went bad.😅
React to the scene where Harry and Voldemort are "merging" together during flight in The Deathly Hallows Part 2. Their faces blend together in an interesting way.
Tbh, it's one of the easiest effects to achieve from HP. You have a 3D modelling of the bus or you green screen it in when it's an exterior shot. Then you apply stretch to it and squash the geometry. For the inside shots, it's even easier. You just squash the footage horizontally. For the slow down of time, you adjust the footage/CG to about 10% time scale and re adjust it to normal when it goes back. When the bus moves quickly, you adjust it to 200-500%. Some of the spells are more difficult like the streams for dumbledore and voldemort, you gotta add all kinds of particle sims around them, then obviously you have the goop sim in the middle. The water ball is also superb, like they said. Only a software like Houdini is capable of something like that even in today's age
shots of the real woman with snake sounds. and then a cg snake with cloth sim for the cloak thing. her face could be realy good makeup or just a tracked cg face
In Harry Potter are a lot of transforming scenes like McGonnigal into a Cat, Sirius into a Dog,Lupin into the Werwolf etc. I need more of this than just 2 parts!
In Half-Blood Prince, when Dumbledore and Harry are in the cave together and Dumbledore creates this epic firestorm. I'd love to see a breakdown of that shot.
I'd like to see the Death Eaters turning into smoke and flying away. I remember seeing it for the first time in theaters and was blown away by how real it looks
6:12 I never noticed they actually have people crossing over the skyway into Gringotts! It's a nice subtle way to sell the miniature as the size of everything else
That battle scene with Dumbledore and Voldemort is absolute favorite scene in the entire movie series! I really wish they would have expanded that scene a little longer. What a great example of how powerful the two of them were. Hell give me an entire 2 and a half hour battle between those two!
The limits of CGI at this time of movie making made the movies hold up SO much better over time because of the practical effects. When I rewatch fantastic beats in comparison to the OG HP films, the excessive CGI hurts, it takes you right out of the magical atmosphere they try to create.
In the order of the phoenix, the shot with all the glass exploding from the building is completely practical. They used a bunch of explosives and blew up the huge set they had worked on for months.
One of my favorite stories is that the actor who played Dumbledore commented on how well trained the bird who played Fawkes the phoenix was. The twist? Fawkes was just an incredible animatronic. Also the basilisk is all practical, as well as the spiders. That movie's effects are amazing.
For The Basilisk and Fawkes they used animatronics but in combination with CGI, just like in Jurassic Park. Not all spiders are animatronics, they only had a animatronic for Aragog. the other spiders are fully cg
The magical shield around Hogwarts in deathly hallows, and Voldemort destroying it. And then the escape on the dragon in the same movie. This got me too hyped
Harry morphing into Goyle in Chamber of Secrets Scabbers becoming Peter Pettigrew in Prisoner of Azkaban Dobby Death Eaters moving as smoke, Aurors moving as white smoke **Lupin transforming into a wolf** this one is _amazing_
It's not only the VFX that's amazing in that battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort in OotP, the sound design is ASTOUNDING. Some people have already pointed out that there's no music, but listen closely to the sound design when Dumbledore makes the waterball, the whistle-like sound, and when they're making fire etc. The sounds are among some of the most unique interpretations of magic that I've heard. I don't remember which video it was, but I saw a video about it _somewhere_ where they talked about trying to find new and evocative sound designs for magic, and it really opened my eyes (and ears) to something that had influenced my experience so much without even noticing. If anyone knows what video it could've been, I'd love to hear it!
Practical: "I never thought I'd create an effect side-by-side with a CGI" CGI: "How about side-by-side with a friend?" Practical: "Aye, I could do that."
That is overall the best way to do it, 100% CGI or 100% practical is hard or difficult or not good enough sometimes, but use both in a smart way and it's fantastic
Deathly Hallows part 2 when harry and Voldemort are flying together at the very end. There's a moment when their faces merge and it literally looks like something Peter would make
Magic is interacting with non-magic elements in the story just as VFX is interacting with practical while filming. VFX is like a magic trick at the end of the day. great video
I remember seeing that fight scene between Voldemort and Dumbledore in the theater and it gave me goosebumps. I think something that made so spectacular is the fact that it has no music, no orchestra it's just them, fighting an awesome fight. The quietness of it is both eerie and amazing!
I imagine the only cgi bit is when the cups start mulyiplying at the start, the sound design really makes that scene. And then later on they're probably just pouring in more identical cups from off camera and cutting if they really want a massive pile (they probably just added some bug boxes underneath so they didn't need as many cups) I know nothing about behind the scenes though. They also had a glow on some of the cups when they multiply if I remember correctly. I reckon it's just good cgi 3d models and they just make copied come out of the other objects and then run a physics sim
You just flooded a bunch of old memories back into my head. I remembered an fxguide article I read on that a long time ago. Here it is www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows/
@@noeonoohno4219 You can like a concent without supporting its creator. hell, there are many gay people listening to Frank Sinatra's songs despite many knows that he's homophobic.
One effect that nobody mentions is the Dumbledore Wizard Card in the first movie. That quasi-lenticular 3D looks too good to have been an actual card, but the way the hands move the card around is so natural.
It's love that Clint is actually familiar with the movies you guys are watching. It's nice to see him get all amped up and excited instead of not knowing what id's going on.
I want to see a comparison of the same vfx over the years ie. Small people (hook, Gulliver's Travels, night at the museum ect) Magic (Magic sword, ben hur, lord of the rings, Harry Potter, ect), transformations (the wolfman, willow, van Helsing, ect) I think that would be amazing.
My favourite movie in the franchise hands down. It is such a good movie, along with the VFX camera magic and the Time-Turner scenes are just done beautifully. That boggart closet was not the first or last time the camera went through glass, but it was definitely the most complex.
You guys need to react to the last movie where voldemort blows up the shield around Hogwarts and then the bus scene in London from the prisoner of azkaban movie.
I would like to see a breakdown of the CGI-Quiddich in the 6. movie. Espacially because I think that some things work great and some just don't in these scenes but I could never figure out why.
Can you do Neville Longbottoms's freak broom accident in Harry potter and the Sorcerer's stone the first time he rides a broomstick - the cg Neville is hilarious or when any of the characters are cg
That disappointed me to be honest, it looks nothing like a werewolf or even a fantasy creature meant to scare me, it's like a half deer with some mutant wolfISH head was raised by werewolves so it always thought it was a werewolf and tried to act like one but honestly everybody but it could see that being false...
I dont know much about film production and vfx but you guys are true idols and I love these videos so much. I’m in college and currently minoring in film studies and I literally watch these videos to stay motivated
Do the polyjuice potion scenes, the werewolf scene, the fireplace Skype scenes, the dementors, the Quidditch scenes (especially the bad CG models of the first one), the Mirror of Erised scene, the Pixies scene, the Ford scenes, the Time-turner scenes, Buckbeak, Basilisk, Aragog and the spiders, the dragons, the mermaids, the moving stairs, the Fred and George fireworks scene, the portraits, the ghosts, the scenes with Hagrid, Dobby, (not so great) Grawp and Troll
I can explain some of these: Werewolf: Originally it was supposed to be an animatronic suit a stunt performer would wear. It ended up being too difficult to operate so instead they took a scan of the suit and used that as the reference model for the CGI one. Fireplace chat: Practical set with real fire element filmed, comped in a plate for Gary Oldman. Quidditch: Real grandstands and model for the exterior shots, CGI everything else. Buckbeak: Full practical animatronic. Aragog: Full practical animatronic as well. The forest is a real set and so are the spiders. They had them on ropes that could be dropped down from the set canopy. Moving stairs: Mostly practical as well. They had one built and just used the same one over and over. The portraits: Mostly practical as well. Filmed those scenes in the paintings separately and comped them in. The flying car scene: Practical as well. Real Ford Anglia that was on a plate that could move in the desired direction. Had the actors in the car and hooked up with wires out the passenger window. Real background as well just filmed separately. Pixies: Real set and I believe, if I'm remembering this right, they had bats they released into the set and the actors would react to those. They rotoed out the bats and put in the CGI pixies in roughly the same place the bats had been. I think Rupert Grint actually had a bat defecate on him during one of the takes. Basilisk: They had a real head that Danial Radcliff could interact with. The walkway and statues were real as well, so was the front of the chamber the Basilisk came out of. Dragons: For the Tri-Wizard tournament scene the ground and rocks were practical. The stands were not. The fire was a real flamethrower that they filmed separately. For when Harry is hiding behind the rock and it gets scorched, I think they filmed the burn for real and filmed Daniel Radcliff on the same set but separately. Then they just stitched the two together.
@@jasperlilienfeld505 Some of the spiders in the forest are CG, Aragog is fully practical though. Most of buckbeak is also CG, except for the head when Harry is interacting with it. Checked the behind the scenes footage just to make sure.
I just want you guys to breakdown some of patronus charms throughout the series and how theyve changed, and then the secret apartment hideout from the fifth film. Great stuff!
Thanks for watching er'body! If you want to watch this entire show from the beginning you can do that here ►
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Where is the part two?? I love your content and can’t believe I haven’t seen this one yet lol. I desperately want more!
er'body 🤣
When Harry changes into Goyle in Chamber of Secrets. During the transition his face becomes all bubbly. Still holds up pretty well!
I love that transition. It sells it really well. The changing back into themselves in the Slytherin common room is not bad either but the bathroom one is superior imo.
Facial transformation/morphing effects are probably the hardest to pull off, but when they work, they're the best!
It wasn't VFX. It was actual real magic used on the set of the film. Don't look it up just trust me.
Harry Potter was literally magic when we first saw the movie. I guess even corridor crew would agree as they would have been a child then
Harry potter rated R. Yeahhhh!!!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2: the Gemino Curse (everything they touch multiplies)
People fail to mention about how there is absolutely no music behind the entire fight scene in the ministry between DD and voldemort. Really added to the suspense of the scene and immerses the viewer even further into that world to the point where It almost seemed real in a sense.
Yeah I always thought that scene was pure genius. They really banked on the visuals and it seemed incredibly risky.
Exactly!!
EXACTLY! OMG just reading your comments made me having goosebump all over my body. Truly brilliant scene.
Sound effects were too good
Rrally wished they had done it like in the books tho :/
I hope they didn't forget wanting to do a part 2 of Harry Potter VFX because a lot of us would like to see it !
Couldn't agree more!
Looks like they definitely forgot. Sadge.
They definitely forgot wtf. .
This!!!! I keep searching for it!!
Still no ep 2 :(
The scene where the guy turns from a chair back to a normal person. Everything about that has crazy stuff going on
General kenobi you are a bold one
@Ba Paoi stfu
That would be Horace Slughorn
Yeah, and how they managed to make the wrecked house look okay again. There's the little detail with Harry stepping on a piece of the chandelier that was so cute.
The half blood prince: when slughorn and dumbledore rebuild the inside of the damaged house in the beginning
THIS
THIS PLEASE
YES
Absolutely
YES! That is literally my favorite scene out of any movie I have ever watched!
Deathly hallows: when they’re inside Bellatrix’s vault and everything starts replicating...so complicated because the actors seem to have to keep jumping and touching physical objects that weren’t there but keep being replicated and exponentially increasing!! HOW!? HOW CORRIDOR!
this one please!
There were practical solutions for harry, he had to climb on something to get to the goblet. Everything else was simulated/animated around the actors. Most of the objects ended up being in the foreground for less masking work. The actors had to pretend like there were objects flying around them. Very difficult but not impossible!
They did have to climb a little bit, apparently they had to make 210,000 cups and the rest was vfx
@@KruzeTV that was 210000 coins not the cups
That Dumbledore and Voldemort battle is especially cool because it really shows the capabilities of master wizards. There's not really any other part of the series where you can really see people pushing the magic to its limits like that. There are a lot of spells, but they're mainly done by the main characters, who are all younger and still learning, whereas Dumbledore and Voldemort are actual masters. I wish we could have seen more crazy magic like that in the rest of the series
ye
I feel like JK didn't think up enough surrounding the magic system to really make that work. We have no real indicator for what the magic comes from, what fuels it, what you can and can't do exactly without a wand, how impactful your own vs another's wand really is, how you can improvise or create spells etc.
I love the books to death, re-read them all the time, but the real focus of the story was always more a magical new world to explore and a mystery to solve. It was never truly about the magic, except for very few storybeats almost at the very end.
Stuff like learning nonverbals, self-made spells, detecting magic just by touch, casting without a wand all only really came around in the 6th book onwards.
What Voldy and Dumby are doing in this fight is barely based on any spells we know. We got some base spells like aguamenti, serpensortia, protego, incendio etc., but they're all blasted to an absolute extreme. The only other power-scaling example we have are patronus charms, which can be weak mist, substantial bursts, creatures and creatures that talk. The rest of the spells all only slightly grow in power and most of them are just "dude gets knocked back more", almost regardless what the base spell even is. Impedimenta and expelliarmus just work like knockbacks, strong reducto is basically just confringo and so on.
I feel like if there had been slightly more books, with a bit more focus on the magic itself in the later school years, a more robust system to base them on and a better villain structure we'd get those high impact magic battles. But as it was, we only really got this one fight, a hint at the Grindelwald spectacle and lots of "Harry uses expelliarmus". The golden flames his wand reflexively spit out were interesting, but then only turned into a minor plot point to shoehorn in the hallows.
Man, I wish JK had actually put in some more effort and brushed up on her writing throughout the books. We could have whole generations of Harry Potter/Hogwarts chronicles telling stories in that world and instead she just took all the money she could and tried everything to get more, while never improving.
@@dowfreak7 I wish we got more of the book's battles inside the ministry. Big floating brains, Dumbledore animating the sculptures of the fountain and them jumping in front of spells to protect Harry, etc.
We simply want 8 parts dedicated to every single movie
Agreed
Agree too
That would work
yep
Noice
Harry Potter requests:
- The Basilik
- The polyjuice potion in chamber of secrets
- Lupin turns into a werewolf
- Harry and Buckbeak
- The dementor train scene in prisioner of azkaban
- The "Dumbledore has style" scene
- Dumbledore horrocrux's cave scene
- All the Gringotts scenes of deathly hallows part 2
- The battle of Hogwarts
- Harry vs Voldemort (final fight)
damn! you got all of those right! I hope they can review all of the above!
Dang this is pretty much my exact list
I would like to know the crews thoughts on the 3d effects of Voldemorts death and the way he flakes away. It was the first time, and only time, since Avatar that I was impressed by 3D in a movie.
Add in the fiend fire scene in deathly hallows part 2 and we got an episode!
perfect list
React to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Harry and Dumbledore visits Horace Slughorn and when they clean up the house.
@Mot Kaou YES PLEASE
Yes !!
8:03 Clint’s face when they’re explaining how lighting works with a hat on 😂😂
How about looking at the dementors. Especially the shot as they approach Hogwarts in Prisoner of Azkaban and the flowers frost over.
This! All the freezing stuff is great cinematically but that shot especially shows the crystal formation and everything
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The scene where harry meats slughirn for the first time, him turning from a armchair to a man, and where the house is restored! That scene really makes you feel like it's magic
Merlin's beardddd
Yes, absolutely, that's a great idea!
"This entire scene is practical."
Of course it is. That's just how life is in the UK.
The outside of hogwarts castle is just Glasgow University, I know because my sister went there
PRACTICALly perfect in every way
The UK is definitely the best when it comes to Practical effects and camera work, it's quite common that big Hollywood movies will come to the UK to use our methods and equipment.
@@trickyagent127 actually no Hogwarts footage was filmed at Glasgow university.
@@trickyagent127 False
"What if someone made it more brutal?"
Draco bleeding out on the floor in Half-Blood Prince: 👁👄👁
Bathilda Bagshot. Need I say more?
He had like huge gashes on his body in the book
They missed an opportunity to blow up Seamus Finnegan multiple times in Sorcerer’s Stone
Please look at the dementors, especially when they are introduced in the third movie on the train. The flying car in the second movie. The door to the room of requirement in the fifth movie.
The scene in movie 6 where Dumbledore rearranges a ransacked room when he takes Harry to visit Professor Slughorn!
Already done.
Was thinking about that one!
@@gabrielgingras814 link?
@@vehzee
I'm sure I've seen them react to it, but it's not in any thumbnail so... Fuck!
Please do a break down on how they did professor lupin’s transformation into a wearwolf
Omg yess
And also Wormtail transformation?
@@Empty12345 yeah!
One of my favorite things about this channel is how they give credit where it's due. "None of this would have looked as good if half of it wasn't practical". They know the limits of their own craft.
Also another good scene is when Harry goes against the Hungarian Horntail dragon in the Goblet of Fire.
And compare that one to the scene in number 7 part 2 (film 8) where they escape on the back of another dragon! It'd be good to see the contrasting dragon scenes, and the advances.
@@sambowdenuk Yeah that was a fantastic scene!!
It'd be really cool if you guys analyzed the "Lupin changing into a Werewolf" scene.
Maaaan, I wanted to say that
Remus turning into a werewolf and Dudley getting his happiness sucked away from him
The magic style changes A LOT as the films continue. Which magic aesthetic is your favorite?
And THE CAR!! THE SPIDERS! Or maybe babymort? There's so much to talk about
You gotta talk about the house extending in the order too. When the whole apartment building extends out sideways
Oh man yeah that’s so cool
You beat me to it!
Compare the two scenes from Goblet of fire and Order of the phoenix where Sirius Black is talking through the fireplace.
I wouldn’t say I’m dissapointed but the Order of the Phoenix should’ve kept the same effect
@@Coolgamer54321 the effect in Order of the Phoenix is closer to whats described in the book. That being said they should have just committed to one effect, changing it was weird.
YES!
yeah this was a bad change because the world has to be at least somewhat consistent. like, compare the dementors in Azkaban with the later movies - the CGI later is obviously better, and they changed a few of the elements so they were more smokey and ghost-like, but overall the design and look is pretty similar. you can show an advancement in technology that is acceptable and recognized by viewers without completely changing it and throwing everyone off.
Prisoner of Azkaban: Time travel scene, when everything around harry and hermione rewinds while they look around
i'm not sure how they got it to match up at the start. but the shake is clearly digital. so one shot is done moving forward, the other moving backward and then the forward on is reversed and shake is added to both + that motion blur effect to the reversed one. they would have to comp them infront maybe by hand or with a blue screen. I'm not certain though.
+1
My favorite movie of the series, partly because of that shot
Here's the scene: ua-cam.com/video/Mg1A7fB9nrk/v-deo.html
But yeah Harry Potter deserves a few more parts
That scene always bothered me, because in the story Harry wakes up to discover that Sirius needs help, but when you go back the last two hours, you see him fully conscious in the hospital wing.
Ralph Fienes just killed it as voldemort. The way he was able to make the character so expressive WITHOUT eyebrows is insane. Being able convey those emotions without them is insanely difficult but he absolutely nailed it.
He's like a minion
should've had the people who did Voldemort's nose do Henry Cavill's Mustache in Josstice League.
Would not have helped.
They had a lot of time and preparation for Voldemort, including several scans as mentioned.
For Superman those scenes were reshoots, meaning 0 prep for VFX and short on time before release so they had to rush it.
This was not the fault of VFX artists but of poor planning.
@@Exoclypse yeah they shoot most of the scene in justice league when cavill was growing his stache for Mission impossible if I'm not wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@sssharefff In fact Cavill had already started shooting for Mission Impossible. He had to go back and forth between England and America to shoot the scenes.
Apparently after the first two movies they replaced the practical hanging candles with CGI ones because it became a fire hazard lol
Same with the Food in the Hall. In the first Movie the Food were all real, and after that they used plastic fake food because most of the real food went bad.😅
i read that it was getting in all of the food :p it was probably both lmaoo
edit: the *wax* got in the food.
React to the scene where Harry and Voldemort are "merging" together during flight in The Deathly Hallows Part 2. Their faces blend together in an interesting way.
Still waiting on that second episode
Seriously though
amen
Goblet of Fire: Sirius’s face in the fireplace
VS
Order of the Phoenix: Sirius’s face in the fireplace
this one is great, always though the goblet of fire one was the coolest.
The ultimate “you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about”
I was genuinely disappointed by the Order of the Phoenix one tbh it just kinda looked lazy
lol I forgot about that
Also, Prisoner of Azkaban Dementors vs Order of the Phoenix Dementors
Can't believe they didn't talk about the Knight Bus and when it thins out
IKR?!!
Oh yessssss that totally deserves to be reviewed!!!
Tbh, it's one of the easiest effects to achieve from HP. You have a 3D modelling of the bus or you green screen it in when it's an exterior shot. Then you apply stretch to it and squash the geometry. For the inside shots, it's even easier. You just squash the footage horizontally. For the slow down of time, you adjust the footage/CG to about 10% time scale and re adjust it to normal when it goes back. When the bus moves quickly, you adjust it to 200-500%. Some of the spells are more difficult like the streams for dumbledore and voldemort, you gotta add all kinds of particle sims around them, then obviously you have the goop sim in the middle. The water ball is also superb, like they said. Only a software like Houdini is capable of something like that even in today's age
The scene where Harry breaks his arm, then gets a portion that removes his arm bones
That was a bad spell. The potion was to restore the bone.
That was prostetic arm I guess
Clint's sombrero face is such a mood.
Movie: Deathly hallows part 1
Scene: Nagini transforming back to a snake from a woman.
Tamil ah
shots of the real woman with snake sounds. and then a cg snake with cloth sim for the cloak thing. her face could be realy good makeup or just a tracked cg face
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In Harry Potter are a lot of transforming scenes like McGonnigal into a Cat, Sirius into a Dog,Lupin into the Werwolf etc. I need more of this than just 2 parts!
Movie: Chamber of Secrets
Scene: The Basilisk coming out of the water at the end inside the Chamber
That scene had good cgi for the time they made the movie but that scene today doesn’t look too polished
the scene where Hermione and Harry travel back in time in the 3rd movie is really great. oh there's a very cool camera shot in the same sequence.
This is one of Alfonso Cauron visual trickery to feel like you're not in same world after more it progress
I'm just gonna type this to boost it
You guys never did part 2? I'd love it if you guys could react to more Harry Potter vfx!
In Half-Blood Prince, when Dumbledore and Harry are in the cave together and Dumbledore creates this epic firestorm. I'd love to see a breakdown of that shot.
Yes! So epic
I'm once again asking for the seven Harry's with the polyjuice scene in deathly hallows part 1.
Transformation from mad eye to Barty Crouch Jr. is one of the best transformation scenes
All the polyjuice scenes are dope.
When is the next part of this series coming out?
I need access to the harry potter goop sim cache
I'm curious to ask why, but also scared.
Someone give this man the launch codes
Ah yes, I too want to simulate hot viscous liquids shooting out of sticks for... reasons.
@@hirvale I bet there's money in that tho lmao
@@hirvale 😉
Please do the port key scene with awkward air running Robert Pattinson
God PLEASE
ITS BRYAN SEEKER, HELLO!
@Ba Doai No one knows wtf is going on in your vid but good try!
This
Oh my god I hated that so much. They ruined the 4th movie.
I'd like to see the Death Eaters turning into smoke and flying away. I remember seeing it for the first time in theaters and was blown away by how real it looks
6:12 I never noticed they actually have people crossing over the skyway into Gringotts!
It's a nice subtle way to sell the miniature as the size of everything else
That scene with Harry’s aunt is unbelievable! Could not believe that was practical!! Keep up the content fellas!
Hagrid. Just Hagrid in every movie with every character interactions
I'd love to see a reaction to the scene where Hagrid makes the bricks shift and move to reveal Diagon Alley in the first movie
@@buffnipz they do
I'm pretty sure that's a suit...
@@AdrianChazz they had two actors portray hagrid, one for height and the actual actor
The literal definition of a Gentle Giant. So wholesome!
That battle scene with Dumbledore and Voldemort is absolute favorite scene in the entire movie series! I really wish they would have expanded that scene a little longer. What a great example of how powerful the two of them were. Hell give me an entire 2 and a half hour battle between those two!
The limits of CGI at this time of movie making made the movies hold up SO much better over time because of the practical effects. When I rewatch fantastic beats in comparison to the OG HP films, the excessive CGI hurts, it takes you right out of the magical atmosphere they try to create.
In the order of the phoenix, the shot with all the glass exploding from the building is completely practical. They used a bunch of explosives and blew up the huge set they had worked on for months.
Me: *peacefully watching a film at the cinema*
Wren, whispering at my back: "so, how do you think they did that shot?"
The Pollyjuice potion scene when everyone turns into Harry
that's easy
"We're identical!"
They just filmed him over and over, it looks impressive but it's a pretty easy affect. AJR just did the same thing in their new video.
@@TinyGiraffes it was great cuz he had to try and act like everyone there, pretty funny scene
I'd say that was more impressive with Radcliffe's acting since he had to emulate all of those characters' personality quirks and speech patterns.
"Wait, but which house am I in? "
"You're in my house now. "
That was hilarious!
"You're in my house now."
There's that casually aggressive Niko energy we all love to see.
i came looking for this comment lol
Request for VFX react:
When harry and other contestants meet the dragons in GOBLET OF FIRE
Dumbledore’s “firestorm” scene. I’m wondering how much CG they used vs Pyrotechnics.
Oh I love that scene, it's possibly the most powerful use of cg throughout the entire series.
Love that scene. I was so fucking PUMPED for Dumbledore after that
One of my favorite stories is that the actor who played Dumbledore commented on how well trained the bird who played Fawkes the phoenix was. The twist? Fawkes was just an incredible animatronic. Also the basilisk is all practical, as well as the spiders. That movie's effects are amazing.
For The Basilisk and Fawkes they used animatronics but in combination with CGI, just like in Jurassic Park. Not all spiders are animatronics, they only had a animatronic for Aragog. the other spiders are fully cg
Bad CGi bits in Sorcerer's Stone:
* Neville falling of a broom
* First Hagrid appearance scene has poor CGi Hagrid standing in a background
As well as Harry's CG model when he's riding the troll ! It does the job, but the effect doesn't hold up very well X)
That's pretty good for a 20-year-old movie.
and the troll
@@Zw285 No it looked bad then too.
Not CGI, was a body double with an animatronic head
The magical shield around Hogwarts in deathly hallows, and Voldemort destroying it. And then the escape on the dragon in the same movie. This got me too hyped
Harry morphing into Goyle in Chamber of Secrets
Scabbers becoming Peter Pettigrew in Prisoner of Azkaban
Dobby
Death Eaters moving as smoke, Aurors moving as white smoke
**Lupin transforming into a wolf** this one is _amazing_
It's not only the VFX that's amazing in that battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort in OotP, the sound design is ASTOUNDING. Some people have already pointed out that there's no music, but listen closely to the sound design when Dumbledore makes the waterball, the whistle-like sound, and when they're making fire etc. The sounds are among some of the most unique interpretations of magic that I've heard. I don't remember which video it was, but I saw a video about it _somewhere_ where they talked about trying to find new and evocative sound designs for magic, and it really opened my eyes (and ears) to something that had influenced my experience so much without even noticing. If anyone knows what video it could've been, I'd love to hear it!
Practical: "I never thought I'd create an effect side-by-side with a CGI"
CGI: "How about side-by-side with a friend?"
Practical: "Aye, I could do that."
*ok understandable have a great day*
That is overall the best way to do it, 100% CGI or 100% practical is hard or difficult or not good enough sometimes, but use both in a smart way and it's fantastic
Deathly Hallows part 2 when harry and Voldemort are flying together at the very end. There's a moment when their faces merge and it literally looks like something Peter would make
I second this one!
The scene where Harry and Valdermort are clashing and their faces start to fuse together during flight.
That is so fucking awesome, I was gonna suggest just that
Magic is interacting with non-magic elements in the story just as VFX is interacting with practical while filming. VFX is like a magic trick at the end of the day. great video
I remember seeing that fight scene between Voldemort and Dumbledore in the theater and it gave me goosebumps. I think something that made so spectacular is the fact that it has no music, no orchestra it's just them, fighting an awesome fight. The quietness of it is both eerie and amazing!
No music, but a lot of soundeffects. The sound design is amazing in that scene.
I wish I could have seen it in theatre!
@@peterstangl8295 exactly
Deathly Hallows Part 2 when they start drowning in the multiplying cups
I loved the close up on the Elder Wand when it starts to crack
I imagine the only cgi bit is when the cups start mulyiplying at the start, the sound design really makes that scene. And then later on they're probably just pouring in more identical cups from off camera and cutting if they really want a massive pile (they probably just added some bug boxes underneath so they didn't need as many cups)
I know nothing about behind the scenes though. They also had a glow on some of the cups when they multiply if I remember correctly. I reckon it's just good cgi 3d models and they just make copied come out of the other objects and then run a physics sim
@@isaackim7675 nothing special there.
@@jamesramplin8124 I highly doubt it's practical considering how much work it'd be to create a ridiculous amount of accurate prop cups.
@@tigransafaryan6619 Imperio. Zip it.
In movie 7.1, the seven Harrys scene
When everyone transforms into Harry
You just flooded a bunch of old memories back into my head. I remembered an fxguide article I read on that a long time ago. Here it is www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows/
Oh yeah I remember! And Hermione's 'Harry' gets self conscious being topless! Funny af
@@ctakitimu that is Fleur isn't it? Thought she said "Bill look away" or something like that.
@@AFake_Human Yeah it's Fleur
The snake in 2 and the dragon in 4 really blew me away at the time.
Prisoner of Azkaban: Werewolf/Rat transformations!
Also the Dementors and the Hippogriff
It is all VFX
The scene when the whomping Willow attacks the flying car.
Oh shit that’ll be a good one
That scene is actually mostly practical!
So looking forward to whatever the heck you'll review next, I freaking loved the Harry Potter films
Mee too
Who didn't love this series. It was epic
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@@noeonoohno4219 You can like a concent without supporting its creator. hell, there are many gay people listening to Frank Sinatra's songs despite many knows that he's homophobic.
One effect that nobody mentions is the Dumbledore Wizard Card in the first movie. That quasi-lenticular 3D looks too good to have been an actual card, but the way the hands move the card around is so natural.
Will you ever do a sound designer reacts? As one myself I would be tickled pink. But maybe it's too niche.
I would dig this, when you hear good sounds it is just such a good feeling, the wand effect sounds are so good, transformers always has good sounds
@@TheEarthyn Avatar: The Last Airbender show has some really amazing sound design especially the fire bending during sozins comet
YESS
I already have a scene to react. Star Wars seismic charge 😍
Awesome idea!
Talk about the ever changing Dobby throughout the series and especially Dobby’s entrance into Harry’s room in the chamber of secrets !!!
The real magic in that scene is Daniels ability to act with nothing there at such a young age.
@@Aegis_MindYou’re right!! Everything about it is fantastic
It's love that Clint is actually familiar with the movies you guys are watching. It's nice to see him get all amped up and excited instead of not knowing what id's going on.
I want to see a comparison of the same vfx over the years ie. Small people (hook, Gulliver's Travels, night at the museum ect) Magic (Magic sword, ben hur, lord of the rings, Harry Potter, ect), transformations (the wolfman, willow, van Helsing, ect) I think that would be amazing.
Prisoner of Azkaban was a Masterpiece in every field whether it's music or story or VFX. I mean it was a once in a lifetime movie.
Somehow it sold the least well, such a pity
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I haven’t seen it in a while but I remember it being the most boring one
My favourite movie in the franchise hands down. It is such a good movie, along with the VFX camera magic and the Time-Turner scenes are just done beautifully. That boggart closet was not the first or last time the camera went through glass, but it was definitely the most complex.
The Goblet of Fire: when the Hungarian horntail chases Harry around Hogwarts in the Triwizard Tournament!
Yes please talk about this one! :)
Especially when the Horntail tore away some of the tower’s shingles. It was incredible to see, and it still is.
One of the most realistic looking dragons
I always found interesting how the "flying on a broom" changed throughout the movies :D
“Gryffindor!”
(Throws sombrero, knocks stuff over)
That was SUCH a Gryffindor thing to do.
You guys need to react to the last movie where voldemort blows up the shield around Hogwarts and then the bus scene in London from the prisoner of azkaban movie.
I would like to see a breakdown of the CGI-Quiddich in the 6. movie. Espacially because I think that some things work great and some just don't in these scenes but I could never figure out why.
6:58 "Those candles are practical. I read about it in Hogwarts, A History." - Niko
I love it when wren asks “so. How do you think they did that shot”
Can you do Neville Longbottoms's freak broom accident in Harry potter and the Sorcerer's stone the first time he rides a broomstick - the cg Neville is hilarious
or when any of the characters are cg
Baha, I just noticed this the other day - the CG neville is SO BAD!
It’s pretty much at the same level as the CG Doubles in the Quidditch match scene
@@firestar4430 Gumby Neville
And the scenes with the pixies
The scene where Lupin turns into a werewolf, man that terrified me as a kid
That disappointed me to be honest, it looks nothing like a werewolf or even a fantasy creature meant to scare me, it's like a half deer with some mutant wolfISH head was raised by werewolves so it always thought it was a werewolf and tried to act like one but honestly everybody but it could see that being false...
*Goblet of Fire:* Harry going against the Hungarian Horntail. Bringing dragons to life in Harry Potter was something really incredible.
I dont know much about film production and vfx but you guys are true idols and I love these videos so much. I’m in college and currently minoring in film studies and I literally watch these videos to stay motivated
Voldemort's scene in the first movie, where he is the back of Quirrel's head.
Do the polyjuice potion scenes, the werewolf scene, the fireplace Skype scenes, the dementors, the Quidditch scenes (especially the bad CG models of the first one), the Mirror of Erised scene, the Pixies scene, the Ford scenes, the Time-turner scenes, Buckbeak, Basilisk, Aragog and the spiders, the dragons, the mermaids, the moving stairs, the Fred and George fireworks scene, the portraits, the ghosts, the scenes with Hagrid, Dobby, (not so great) Grawp and Troll
I can explain some of these:
Werewolf: Originally it was supposed to be an animatronic suit a stunt performer would wear. It ended up being too difficult to operate so instead they took a scan of the suit and used that as the reference model for the CGI one.
Fireplace chat: Practical set with real fire element filmed, comped in a plate for Gary Oldman.
Quidditch: Real grandstands and model for the exterior shots, CGI everything else.
Buckbeak: Full practical animatronic.
Aragog: Full practical animatronic as well. The forest is a real set and so are the spiders. They had them on ropes that could be dropped down from the set canopy.
Moving stairs: Mostly practical as well. They had one built and just used the same one over and over.
The portraits: Mostly practical as well. Filmed those scenes in the paintings separately and comped them in.
The flying car scene: Practical as well. Real Ford Anglia that was on a plate that could move in the desired direction. Had the actors in the car and hooked up with wires out the passenger window. Real background as well just filmed separately.
Pixies: Real set and I believe, if I'm remembering this right, they had bats they released into the set and the actors would react to those. They rotoed out the bats and put in the CGI pixies in roughly the same place the bats had been. I think Rupert Grint actually had a bat defecate on him during one of the takes.
Basilisk: They had a real head that Danial Radcliff could interact with. The walkway and statues were real as well, so was the front of the chamber the Basilisk came out of.
Dragons: For the Tri-Wizard tournament scene the ground and rocks were practical. The stands were not. The fire was a real flamethrower that they filmed separately. For when Harry is hiding behind the rock and it gets scorched, I think they filmed the burn for real and filmed Daniel Radcliff on the same set but separately. Then they just stitched the two together.
@@jasperlilienfeld505 Thank you- but I can watch the making ofs for that. I want THEM to explain it
@@jasperlilienfeld505 thank you for the explanation Jasper
Hermione was allergic to the glue so they used a stunt double to wear the cat suit
@@jasperlilienfeld505 Some of the spiders in the forest are CG, Aragog is fully practical though. Most of buckbeak is also CG, except for the head when Harry is interacting with it. Checked the behind the scenes footage just to make sure.
I just want you guys to breakdown some of patronus charms throughout the series and how theyve changed, and then the secret apartment hideout from the fifth film. Great stuff!
"Patio Room?"
Here in England we pedantically call it a 'Conservatoire'
Or 'conservatory'.... if you can afford one.
The spiders in the forest - still hold up today and that was in the SECOND movie D:
Most likely cause its dark in the forest so you cant really see the details left out in the spiders
The Chamber of Secrets: When the phoenix heals Harry with its tears. That is one good looking bird!
I'm pretty certain Fawkes is always practical in that movie unless he's flying.
I think Fawkes is an animatronic. It was so well done the actor who played Dumbledore thought it was a real bird.
yeah, pretty sure fawkes is practically done
@@Ninjamanhammer Makes a lot of sense
The battle of Hogwarts moment where a death eater flies in through a window and then gets heckin reversed back out of the window
Str8 up yeeted
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Please make this happen