Details on Hogfather’s award-winning special effects

26 April 2007 (12:54) Cast and Crew Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Films News News Archives

The BAFTA craft awards coverage continues … and while most articles barely give Hogfather a passing mention, VFXWorld.com tells us exactly what garnered the miniseries its Visual Effects award. To quote the article:

 

Much of MPC’s work on the project involved creating the fantasy characters described in the book — the sock eater, death of rats, five different types of hog and ‘discworld’ — a planet riding on the back of four elephants and a giant turtle. Each of the different characters required different skin textures … The team performed set extensions of collapsing buildings … and created fully CG environments — one shot, with a full length of three minutes, is completely CGI …

 

In accepting the award, Oliver Money expressed his pride in “the whole MPC team who worked tirelessly to create the effects seen in Hogfather.”

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