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Dark magic: ILM creates two digital creatures and other shots for an edgier Harry Potter film.(Creature Modeling)(Cover story)

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Many of the wizards creating Harry Potter's magic have been doing so since Warner Bros. released Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001. But, among all the studios that have created visual effects for Harry and his friends at Hogwarts, Industrial Light & Magic is the only studio in the US to participate in all five films.

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For the latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, directed by David Yates, both visual effects supervisor Tim Alexander and animation supervisor Steve Rawlins led a crew that created Thestrals and Dementors, flew the Hogwarts students to London, and created the only shots of Askaban prison. Both ...

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