GoF going Down Under
The next Harry Potter movie will have a distinctly Aussie input with a local company creating its digital animation. Rising Sun Pictures, learned yesterday it would be in charge of animating key scenes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The next HP movie will have a distinctly Aussie input with a local company creating its digital animation.
They will animate the movie's centrepiece effect - the flaming goblet of fire.
The company has worked on Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Last Samurai, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (which won a best visual effects Oscar).
Rising Sun Pictures expects to have about 80 staff work on the project, and hire 20 visual artists. Key to its success is a piece of remote-viewing software it invented called Cinesync, which allows Warner Bros in London or Los Angeles to view images simultaneously with the artists.