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Cinesite Studios unveiled a computerized layer-by-layer look at the visual and graphics effects used to create the magic inside the Goldstein sisters' New York City apartment in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, starting from when Newt, Tina and Jacob walk into the flat, watch Queenie put on her dress with a wave of her wand, and set up dinner for the four. That can be watched below.
A similar - and albeit longer - reel will be sent over to the VFX voting Academy this month for Fantastic Beasts, to possibly be chosen as one of the five final nominees for this year's Oscars. The 89th annual Academy Award nominations will be announced live at 5:30 a.m. PST on Tuesday, January 24, 2017.
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Cinesite returned to the world of Harry Potter, delivering just under 100 VFX shots including environments of prohibition-era Manhattan, set extensions and the creation of a magical dinner. Cinesite worked on all eight of the Harry Potter movies so the team led by VFX Supervisor Andrew Morley were well equipped to bring J.K. Rowling’s imaginary world from script to screen with production VFX supervisors Tim Burke and Christian Manz.
The team’s scope of work included the preparation of dinner in the Goldstein apartment, the suitcase that Newt uses to transition into different worlds and various CG environments of Manhattan.
The dinner culminates with the ingredients of an apple strudel descending in front of Jacob; the fruit is wrapped in layers of pastry, before the whole strudel is cooked to a brown crisp and descends hot and ready to eat onto the centre of the table. The shot was built with custom FX. Heavy animated texturing, shading and displacement work was required to give the appearance of cooking whilst the strudel floats through the air. Extra blend shapes were also added to allow the whole pastry to appear as though it shrinks down a little as it cooks.
For all those graphic artists out there, Warner Bros. did release some of the posters and promotional art for Fantastic Beasts recently, without any of the title art, taglines or credits, featuring all of the lead characters and their New York City backdrop. Those are viewable here.
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VFX breakdowns always take my breath away. soooooo amazing what they do
and duuuude i wasnt expecting them to have a full city backdrop just so that we can see something out the window like whuuuuut
i'd actually like to see their VFX breakdown of the Credence-Obscurus because gosh those look like some complicated shots
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'Fantastic Beasts' Goldstein sisters VFX reel released, updated unedited film posters 
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