Special Effects 101 (was Re: What Could Have...)

[Lino Padrun]

Hey all,

I'm a new member of the list. 

>>Maybe they didn't want it too look too real or it
was budget constraints,<<

My theories on why the special effects looked the way
they did are: 1) they wanted to keep the monsters
(Fluffy and the troll) on the cartoonish side so as
not to scare younger viewers too much (I think the
movie was watered down a bit for younger viewsers); 2)
to make it easier to create merchandise of the of the
CG characters. To support the former, even Voldermort
was a little on the cartoonish side, while Norbert was
fairly detailed.

I also thought the Hedwig flight looked incredibly
fake (does anyone know if an owl can even take off
backwards like that?).

Michael

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