Special Effects Challenges

[Dave Hardenbrook]

Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 8:44:51 PM, HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com wrote:

HMyc> Buckbeak is a problem, isn't he?  Can you imagine what it would have
HMyc> looked like if Harry had ridden the Centaur?  ::shiver::  Please, 
HMyc> please, let Buckbeak look more attractive than the Centaur.

Speaking as someone who knows at least a little bit about computer
graphics, I think the biggest barrier to doing Buckbeak effectively
at this point is that they haven't known how to render feathers
effectively.  Though there's supposedly going to be a giant "ground
bird" in Discover channel's upcoming "Walking With Prehistoric Beasts",
So maybe they've mastered feathers at last... We'll see...

-- 
Dave