Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Watch VFX Breakdown ReelThe visually impressive third adventure in the Fantastic Beasts series follows the return of magizoologist Newt Scamander as he reveals the secrets of Professor Dumbledore. The One of Us team collaborated on 124 VFX shots, including the beautiful Hogwarts Great Hall environment.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Had To Recreate Staple Harry Potter Sets With VFX
With the “Harry Potter” movies, one thing was always certain: the magical school for witches and wizards, Hogwarts, would be cozy. This was home for the heroes, who would fall in love, fail classes, and nearly die there — it was important that the audience feel the same affection for the location that they did.
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How One of Us crafted the opening brasserie and Hogwarts Great Hall environments.
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The team also worked on a full CG environment for the Room of Requirement, attempting to recreate and revisit the door transition effect from previous Harry Potter films, where the door appears in the wall. It allowed them to experiment with the rig for the portkey effect where the characters disappear through a portal.
Fantastic Beasts – The Secrets of Dumbledore: Louis Laflamme-Fillion – VFX Supervisor – One of Us
“One of the first sequences of the movie, taking place in a London cafe where Dumbledore and Grindelwald are having a chat, before catching on fire. We also worked on the Great Hall sequence, recreating the set and adding in the magical vision of Bhutan where the characters travel to, later on in the movie. And finally, we worked on the Room of Requirements sequence, where we had to re-create the door transition magic from the previous Harry Potter films as well as the magical Prayer Wheel floating in the room which is also a portkey the heroes use at the end of the sequence.”
