‘Tarzan’ had been an exciting opportunity to combine their team’s technical skill with artistic ability. “Recognizing our capabilities, the studio approached us again for this film.” Digital Media World had a chance to speak to Arnaud and Mikaël Damant-Sirois, CG Supervisor for the project. welcomed our bid for ‘Fantastic Beasts’,” said Arnaud Brisebois, VFX supervisor at Rodeo FX. “The team had done such a great job on ‘Tarzan’ that Warner Bros.
When a wizard, Newt Scamander, loses his magical suitcase full of enchanted creatures during a visit to New York, he and his friends must chase them down, try to recapture them and return them to their world through his magic case. It was an unusual chance to further develop the creature pipeline and expertise they had started the year before when they took on a series of shots of fully digital hippos and crocodiles for ‘The Legend of Tarzan’.ĭirected by David Yates, who directed four of the Harry Potter movies, ‘Fantastic Beasts’ also takes place in Harry Potter’s universe, although within a new location and era. But most important for the Rodeo FX team was creating and working on a number of the magical creatures the movie is named for. The work included environments around New York City in the 1920s, the magical reconstruction of a destroyed room, and set extensions for MACUSA, the story’s elaborate wizards’ headquarters. Rodeo FX worked on 126 visual effects shots for ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’.
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