Behind the Scenes of Narnia's Special Effects

louismg writes "Walt Disney Pictures' Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe took in more than $100 million at the box office worldwide in its opening weekend, riding the back of special effects powering nearly all the movie's characters, from the lion Aslan to the Gryphon, Minotaur, Centaurs and more. VFXWorld has a series of diaries with the technology geeks at Rhythm & Hues behind the special effects. (Part 1, 2) For the fantasy film's special effects, Rhythm & Hues teamed up with Industrial Light and Magic and Sony Pictures Imageworks to deliver more than 1,400 shots for the film, and used cutting-edge technology from BlueArc, NVIDIA and others to keep the effects' production running."

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Now Really...

[PerlPenguin]

Am I the only one who thinks all these SFX specials are a bit overkill? I mean, do we really need to see the actors running around on a greenscreen set with various harness attached and such for every high-budget movie that comes out?

Re:Movie was amazing, but I was a tad disappointed

[anagama]

The special effects were awesome

Awesome? I would describe them as severely dissapointing. The story itself is a simplistic one -- I went for what I hoped would be awesome effects. What I saw was some animated characters that were well done, and some that were wrong. But what really ruined it for me were those scenes that perfectly mimicked 1950s wizardry, you know, close up on the actor in front of a background that is 100% obviously fake -- like when people don't look at the road when driving and the passing scenerey is obviously just a projection.

Do yourself a favor: watch the previews (the previews ARE awesome) but skip the movie ... you just saw the good stuff.