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I think the final battle in the second film for The Deathly Hallows...
...is really gonna be our greatest triumph in terms of the work that we've achieved.
In the past, we've worked with a lot of miniatures.
We've build the whole of Hogwarts in the computer this time.
So we're not using any miniature work at all.
We've got this digital version of Hogwarts...
...which allows me to go anywhere within the school...
Come on!
...and anywhere outisde it, and gives me tremendous freedom to move the camera...
...in and around the place when it's being destroyed. That was quite useful.
But it's a phenomenal amount of work that we have to create...
...as the school itself is under attack.
Protego Maxima. Fianto Duri. Repello Inimicum.
So part of the story for the defense of Hogwarts...
...was that the teachers at the school...
...would produce what is, essentially, the mother off all shields...
...that would protect the whole of the school.
We spent a lot of time designing the look of this.
It was important that it felt organic, but, also, we didn't want...
...to end up with something that was visible once the shield itself had finished.
And that was a design process that we went through...
...to establish what this shield looked like.
The idea was that as the Death Eaters would launch their spells...
...you would then be aware of its presence again...
...once the spells started exploiding on the shield.
And there's a whole progression of the deterioration of the shield.
You saw the weakening of the shield...
...so you began to get this idea...
...that fine cracks were appearing in the surface.
We were keen to make it look like it was actually burning...
...with the shield itself changing its state...
...from being sort of solid and glassy into something more materialistic.
And as the shield itself is collapsing...
...pieces of the burning shield are falling down to the school.
And I thought that was beautifully filmed and worked very well