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USA Today on how Buckbeak was made -
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The USA Today has an interesting article about how Buckbeak was made using digital effects and how they achieved certain shots throughout the film.
Article: USA Today on how Buckbeak was made
The USA Today has an
article about the making of the creature Buckbeak for the film
Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Thanks to nearly two years of work by computer specialists, Buckbeak figures prominently in several of the movie's most wondrous scenes. In a couple of shots, Harry rides off into the horizon on the hippogriff's broad, downy back.
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"Buckbeak is very gracious when he flies, but very clumsy when he walks and eats like a glutton," says Alfonso Cuaron, who directed the third film in the Potter series. "He is not very smart, but very loyal and very proud."
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Several artists, Radcliffe (Mark Radcliffe - Producer) says, "combined the bone structure of a bird with the bone structure of a horse, then started to figure out, 'How does an animal like that walk? Does it walk around like a horse or like a bird?' "
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"We wanted a smart, powerful animal, but it's also a bird of prey," Radcliffe (Mark) says. "We wanted to create a creature that would be emotional and have a real personality. We wanted a creature the audience would love."
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"We had a beak on a stick when we shot so that when Dan touched the beak, we got the right curvature of his hand," says Mark Radcliffe (no relation to Dan). "We had a horse there for the visual-effects people to get a sense of the light coming through the trees on that day. That light had to be replaced exactly when we were creating this three-dimensional creature."
You can also view a video from MSNC about how Buckbeak was made
here. Click launch.
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