Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Over a period of 19 months, DNEG fielded a team of well over 250 artists, developers and technicians to deliver approximately 950 VFX shots for the film, a record for any one vendor in the history of the Harry Potter film series.

With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

In late 2005, Tim Burke, overall VFX Supervisor for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, approached DNEG to come on board as the lead VFX vendor for the film. Tim was keen to bring DNEG on board as early as possible in the visual effects development process to get the maximum level of creative integration.

DNEG's shot list was divided up into four distinct geographical areas: Hogwarts, both inside and out; the Forbidden Forest, where Harry and his friends encounter Grawp, Hagrid’s teenage half-brother; the Hall of Prophecy, a mysterious and cavernous storage space in the Ministry of Magic and the Veil Room, which lies at the very heart of the wizarding world.