VFX Artists React to HARRY POTTER Bad & Great CGi 

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 🤣

Agreed

Agree too

That would work

yep

Noice

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!!!

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 :/

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

THIS

THIS PLEASE

YES

Absolutely

YES! That is literally my favorite scene out of any movie I have ever watched!

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

@@Ziovoda that was 210000 coins not the cups

Couldn't agree more!

Looks like they definitely forgot. Sadge.

They definitely forgot wtf. .

This!!!! I keep searching for it!!

Still no ep 2 :(

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.

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

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.

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!

Seriously though

amen

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

He's like a minion

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mg1A7fB9nrk.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.

Merlin's beardddd

Yes, absolutely, that's a great idea!

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.

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

This! All the freezing stuff is great cinematically but that shot especially shows the crystal formation and everything

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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.

That was a bad spell. The potion was to restore the bone.

That was prostetic arm I guess

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.

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

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.

@Mot Kaou YES PLEASE

Yes !!

*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

Omg yess

And also Wormtail transformation?

@@Empty12345 yeah!

Yeah, and these movies became much nastier near the end of the series.

And Harry hitting his puberty rubss off a white wisp from his wand, which only later on becomes a manly stag when he becomes more confident? nvm me.

That's not graphic though, it's just conceptually brutal

I mean originally the books and movies were for kids but as the sequels went on and more mature so did the audience. Kinda like Toy Story the sequels were made with the intention that the audience is growing along with the series.

Good comment, just one problem. Their not there.

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!!

Oh man yeah that’s so cool

You beat me to it!

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

you’re in my house now

I think Clint is an android, and they just turned him off for the demonstration

@@NoArmsSally what

Didn't come XD

Maaaan, I wanted to say that

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.

@@TheHenrish Yeah it's Fleur

i came looking for this comment lol

All the polyjuice scenes are dope.

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

Yes! So epic

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

That is so fucking awesome, I was gonna suggest just that

Corridor Crew sometimes just lie, kinda annoying tbh, I was really looking forward to part 2

I second this one!

Str8 up yeeted

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Please make this happen

Yes the inferi were amazing too!

I mean a lot of credit goes to Cuaron for establishing a consistent theme and style with azkaban from there on out haha But yeah, the fire against the inferi was awesome The fight with Voldemort in the ministry from Order was great too. ( I am kinda dissapointed with their R rated version not using any of the good stuff haha and only sticking with philosopher & chamber)

The skeletons in the water

Always

@@KaladinVegapunk What does Cuaron have to do with anything in the comment you responded to. And no a lot of the credit doesn’t go to him.

That scene had good cgi for the time they made the movie but that scene today doesn’t look too polished

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