Fantastic beasts: how were the animals seen in the film created?

Released in cinemas in 2016, the film entitled Fantastic Beasts, worn by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrel and Ezra Millerwill be rebroadcast on Sunday October 23, 2022, from 9:05 p.m. on TF1. Directed by David Yatesthis feature film is the first part of the saga Fantastic Beastsas well as the first spin-off film from the hit film franchise Harry Potter. It is also the 9th film in the wizarding world saga, imagined by the British writer JK Rowling. The story of this feature film takes place many years before that of the first film in the franchise. Harry Potter.

This cinematographic work features many magical creatures, such as Pickett, the little Bowtruckle with the appearance of a twig, but also Niffleur, similar to a small furry rodent with a snout. The making of the animals required months of creating graphics, models, and testing animations to determine the appearance, behavior, movements, attitude, and personality of each creature. JK Rowling was inspired, for several of them, legendary creatures from different culturessuch as Chinese Zouwu, Scottish Kelpy, and French Matagot.

Fantastic beasts: magical creatures entirely in computer graphics

“I am fascinated by mythologies and traditions from all over the world and when a creature exists in a mythology, it has a particular depth and authenticity. But sometimes, I have to start from scratch and I like to do it that way too“, she explained. “The descriptions of Jo in the screenplay as in the book ‘Fantastic Beasts: Life and Habitat’ was our starting point. From there, the art and visual effects teams came up with thousands of design ideas and we gradually eliminated some of them to keep only the ones we liked the most“, indicated for his part the producer David Heyman.

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