We realized quite quickly that we had such a large requirement of the streets of New York, the bank and Central Park and so on, that obviously we were never going to get permission to clear streets completely. ![]() Courtesy Warner Bros.Ī Niffler in Fantastic Beasts. Courtesy Warner Bros.Ī Demiguise in Fantastic Beasts. It was kind of an open forum - they would be submitted, discussed, and that was very typical, I’d say.Ī Bowtruckle in Fantastic Beasts. After that it might be passed back to the conept artists to be improved on, and so on. They would take the illustration, and embellish it, improve it, try different things and ultimately give it to an animator. The character, and not just the appearance, of the creature, would take a huge step forward. And then after it would be given over to one of the digital tech houses here in London. They would prepare artwork initially for discussion and we would discuss it with David Yates and David Heyman. Two of them were dedicated to the design of the creatures – That was their speciality. There were four or five concept artists in my department, the art department. We did quite a great deal of concept art. How did you conceive of and design the animals? We chatted with production designer Stuart Craig on creating the movie’s sets, both magic and not, and the spectrum of captivating animalia: The recreation of 1920s-era Manhattan offers one kind of magic, Newt’s secret beast lair is another, and its inhabitants, from a jewelery-obsessed platypus-like creature to a clingy branch-bug and an enormous, glowing rhinoceros-esque lady in heat, are the most arresting of all. With a muggle in tow, chaos ensues, and the pair, alongside sister witches, find themselves attempting to contain the beasts, make a case for their existence, and confront an entirely separate and far more nefarious threat hitting the tenements of old New York. After the case gets accidentally swapped with other nondescript brown luggage, Newt’s predicament grows, given that only one of the bags contains an entire fantastic beast-sanctuary. ![]() ![]() In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hogwarts graduate Newt (Eddie Redmayne) crashes his way through New York in 1926, fresh off a steamer ship from London, in hot pursuit of his various ill-trained magical beasts, whom he just can’t seem to keep trapped in a suitcase.
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