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."

Comments

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?

No thanks.

[gustgr]

I like fantasy and stuff, but this story is just really poor and really childish. A bunch of fop british kids leading a lion's army in order to defeat an evil ice witch and make Christmas happen again. Please...

mo3 up

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Yes, yes, no. It's a movie for adulterous children

[NRAdude]

Hold on there, about the money: what has not needed money? Those Jesus bibles in your hotel room, the ones you dump down the laundrey chute, needed perhaps USD 2.00 to be completed from raw material to press, and why not complain there? A movie ticket built of a mis-interpretted evil-chastising of a man (The Passion) was no less than USD 7 for a seat, and none received a Jesus Bible. I didn't see even that movie; I think all movies are a waste of time: idle and idolatry. The Chronicles of Narnia are for adulterous Children aged 13 years, if I remember correctly; there is no gory violence, verry little character if not for the corny representations of graven traditions and nigh abandoned behaviours and meek respects of honor.

If people had their heads on strait, then the local library would have the non-fiction section greater than the fiction novel repository; though at this moment 75% of this here local corporate library is fiction. I however, have a library of about 700 pounds of books, and 99% are technical non-fiction. The movie theatres, today, are a reflection of the library. Bored perverts/wives consume more romance/soft-porn novels than even what can be mustered in all the library non-fiction books. This is all expected from that second nation after America: the United States.

I relish technical books. I'm reading one on water-purification; the same subject that John the Baptist excelled upon. I don't attend church congregations because I think repetitive singing and chanting is no use to gardening and carpentry, but recently I was emplored to enter and take a presence. It was delightful, in a fanciful way, with a clean-cut gathering of people looking for some boost to their ego and gentle rebuke to their err. It's a verry static delivery for a pre-arrainged session of preaching that the alleged "pastor" has no time to inter-mediate any thoughts or views to apply for daily consumption -- just a 2 hours of preaching, offering-collection before Preaching(TM), and then a Modernized sermon that has 1/3 of complaints about some other congregations Modernized preaching. I'm happy all those people are in the United States, whereas I'm at this California republic of America.

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.