Red Chillies VFX, a Mumbai-based company has more than 300 of its artists worked remotely and contributed to several projects including 'Class of '83', 'Gunjan Saxena' and 'Radhe'. That definitely, and many other small things like that, were not used before the Harry Potter movies,” says Akash Chopra, a VFX artiste from India.įrom the Magazine Poverty Porn: Making Heroes Out Of People Just Struggling To Survive Poverty In Bihar: Government Numbers Hide Real Story How Caste Equations Continue To Shape Bihar’s Economic Fortunes A Trafficked Woman, A Young Hotel Cleaner: Poverty’s Children Of Kishanganj Street Diary | A Rickshaw-puller’s Take On Life And Lockdown But after Harry Potter, you saw they started giving more attention to the anatomy, the sort of posture etc. Earlier, if it was a warewolf, they would just make it too scary, with so much of hair all around, and hands being three times the size of the body, and it wasn’t anatomically correct. “I think it happened in the third film ‘Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban’, where they introduced warewolf, and I think that changed the sort of way how movies depicted such characters, you know animals and sort of mythological people like that.
It’s been 20 years since the release of ‘Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone’, the first of the eight movies in the film franchise based on the books. As much as Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film ‘Jurassic Park’ is the reason behind bringing the use of VFX (Visual effects) in movies to the mainstream, the Harry Potter films, too, were equally responsible in essentially revolutionising the concept which is basically a combination of live-action footage and computer-generated imagery, which in reality would be almost impossible to capture on film.