Visual Effects Supervisor
Roger Guyett has helped to bring to life everything from friendly ghosts to mythical hippogriffs during his success as a creative leader at Industrial Light & Magic.
On his Oscar nomination for his work on Prisoner of Azkaban, he says:
"Just being nominated is a tremendous honor. Academy Awards, whether it's right or wrong, there's a worldwide significance. And I'm amazingly excited by it. Having said that there's a hell of a lot work that went into
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, so it's not like I haven't sweated blood for it."
Comparing PoA director Alfonso Cuaron with Star Wars director George Lucas he says:
"Every director works in a completely different way," Guyett explains. "George has a specific way of working. He tends to build a film through storyboards and animatics... With Director Alfonso Cuarón, it was his first big special effects movie working on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but George understands the technology right from the outset," Guyett continues. "In Harry Potter you're dealing with two or three different types of creatures at a time and it's such a scaled down thing because the worlds in which they inhabit are relatively real, they're not completely made up. Whereas in the Star Wars universe the rules are so different about what can exist and how the environments are built."
"The significance of the visual effects varies from film to film," Guyett continues. "That's the thing that really makes the movie dramatically work, is if you can get a character that's expected to hold the story up. And these days there's a lot of movies that require that, because people have the imagination to create characters like Yoda in Star Wars, or Buckbeak in Harry Potter. And if you don't believe them, you're taken outside the story. It's not the technology that really creates the effect it's the people with the right imagination. You can give the equipment to anyone -- that's the easy part. It's getting the right people to do the job for you. I'm only as good as the people that are working for me."
You can read the whole article (which is mostly about his work on Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith) at the link below.
Source:
StarWars.com 
PoA effects guru talks PoA Oscar noms & Star Wars 
