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Article: Breathing life into dragons; The special effects team for 'Goblet of Fire' spent more than a year creating the flying, fire-breathing Horntail dragon. Here's a behind-the-scenes peek at how it came to life.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 29, 2005
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Byline: Keely Parrack
You've probably read "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and maybe you've even seen the new movie. Harry, the boy wizard, competes in the Triwizard Tournament, facing merpeople, dragons, and his archenemy Lord Voldemort.
Each scene in the movie is carefully crafted to seem magically "real," so the audience can lose itself in the world of Hogwarts. Creating a film as high-tech as Harry Potter can take a year or longer.
One challenge in "Goblet of Fire" was to make a believable Horntail dragon that remained true to author J.K. Rowling's vivid description: "She writhed and twisted, furling and unfurling her wings and ...