In an interview with the La Times, visual effects supervisor Tim Alexander explains what it took to bring Lord Voldemort's undead army of Inferi to life and suggests that the result may give even grown-up fans nightmares. First off, there are a lot more of them than you might expect:
Above water, you'd probably see about a hundred at a time. But when Harry gets dragged into the lake, there is a whole underwater environment... and it's actually covered in bodies. It's all just ... bodies crawling on top of each other, and that's how you get into the millions. In coming up with the design, he notes that they were very determined to avoid making these dead people look like zombies. He was aiming for a more realistic but no less scary look:
The Inferi themselves are very skinny and emaciated people. Very humanoid, but way skinnier than humans could be.
Above water, you'd probably see about a hundred at a time. But when Harry gets dragged into the lake, there is a whole underwater environment... and it's actually covered in bodies. It's all just ... bodies crawling on top of each other, and that's how you get into the millions. In coming up with the design, he notes that they were very determined to avoid making these dead people look like zombies. He was aiming for a more realistic but no less scary look:
The Inferi themselves are very skinny and emaciated people. Very humanoid, but way skinnier than humans could be.
- 6/22/2009
- by Bill Stouffer
- Reelzchannel.com
As part of their month-long feature on Half-Blood Prince, the La Times' Hero Complex (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/06/harry-potter-countdown-scaring-up-the-inferi.html) blog was updated today with an interview with Tim Alexander, the visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, on the Inferi in the sixth Harry Potter film. Image: http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/albums/userpics/84186/normal_6a00d8341c630a53ef01157129245e970b.jpg ---Quote--- * So how many Inferi lie in the lake?* A couple million? Above water, you’d probably see about a hundred at a time. But when Harry gets dragged into the lake, there is a whole underwater environment…and it’s actually covered in bodies. It’s all just ... bodies crawling on top of each other, and that’s how you get into the millions. *That sounds … disturbing. Certainly, more so than the previous “Potter” films.* It’s certainly much bolder and scarier than we...
- 6/18/2009
- by masterofmystery
- Snitchseeker.com
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