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06-23-2009, 09:15 PM
| | |  Visual effects supervisor talks Half-Blood Prince
Wired magazine has a short new interview with Tim Alexander, Visual Effects Supervisor for Half-Blood Prince. He talks about how they created the fire and water for the cave scene, from research right down to the finished product. Quote:
"There are not enough CPU cycles in the day to capture the complexity found in the environment," says Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor Tim Alexander.
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"We did a lot of research on molten volcanoes, which have a lot of heat going on but no actual flames," Alexander says. "We collected a bunch of other references, including flares that burn underwater, and showed them to the Potter folks."
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"We emulated all these fire parameters: heat ripples, smoke, buoyancy, viscosity, opacity, and brightness," Alexander says. "Chris figured out that a lower-resolution particle set still had a fluidy flow," Alexander says. "The effect looks as if you sprayed propane and then lit it."
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06-23-2009, 09:20 PM
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Wow that's so cool! Interesting to hear about all the research that they put into these effects  | 
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06-23-2009, 09:43 PM
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That's Cool! Amazing!! I can't WWWait!!
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06-23-2009, 10:29 PM
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Interesting. I can't wait...
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06-23-2009, 11:27 PM
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wow it's cool to see how they actually managed to do all those scenes that look so real!
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06-23-2009, 11:32 PM
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I've seen the scene in the trailors. It looks amazing!
Im so glad they're putting all this effort into the effects to make sure they're looking awesome. Im really excited you guys! Im going to die from the anticipation!!
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06-24-2009, 01:15 AM
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So cool! It's amazing how much research and detail they use on the films! And the special effects just get better everytime.  | |
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06-24-2009, 01:41 AM
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that little bit of detail reminds me of the hours i spent watching the special effects extras on Lord of the Rings...
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06-24-2009, 02:38 AM
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Interesting
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06-24-2009, 02:46 AM
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06-24-2009, 03:29 AM
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It's nice to know that they put so much research and effort into this film.
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06-24-2009, 04:30 AM
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06-24-2009, 05:17 AM
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Oh...so that's how they fake...I mean make the fire! 
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06-24-2009, 06:44 AM
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13th to post!!!! lol
interesting and cool at the same time!
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06-24-2009, 08:03 AM
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| | Ashwinder
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Did Oliver help with the Volcanoe research???
Sounds awesome...
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06-25-2009, 03:16 AM
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It must be a LOT of hard work to get the effects down. Tiring just to think about it.
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06-25-2009, 05:06 AM
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I'm excited to see the special and visual effects in this film. New technologies are being developed and advanced everyday (though the movie's finished), so this should be good!
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