Starburst Magazine has run a short feature about some of the effects used in the making of '
Goblet of Fire'. Amongst other things, the dragons and the Quidditch World Cup, are mentioned.
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"It's a pretty powerful beast!" says Nick Dudman, the Creature Effects Supervisor. "It roars, throws its head about, lashes its tail, and bashes its wings against the side of the cage while spitting fire."
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"The wings are literally 'puppeteered' from behind, and the tail? - it's a tail on a stick basically," he reveals.
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The unit publicist Vanessa Davies describes the character of Mad-Eye Moody as being like a 'war-torn veteran' who has seen it all and got the scars, but has retained a sense of rationality.
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Davies dismisses tabloid rumors of 'dangers' during filming in the Scottish Highlands. "There's a wonderfully fabricated story saying we were filming in the most dangerous part of the mountains," she chuckles. "We were like 'If it's that dangerous, why are the locals walking around in skirts and flip-flops?'"
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"We've got Industrial Light & Magic doing the dragons and the World Cup trying to replicate 80,000 screaming fans," explains Visual Effects Supervisor Jimmie Mitchell. "The work that had been done previously on the Quidditch footage from the first two films was important to the flying."
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Comparing the fourth film to the previous movies he said that it has a mixture of the 'special' moments from film two combined with a darker tone similar to the third. "I think it's more in line with Two but certainly some of the aesthetics of Three."
Scans of the article can be seen
here.
Source:
DanRadcliffe.com 
Goblet of Fire F/X article 
