VFX Studio Hilariously Inserts Voldemort Into Classic Movies
As Harry Potter proves, movie magic has advanced to levels far beyond what anybody could have imagined back when the medium first saw its inception. It's one thing to move from silent films to «talkies» or to make King Kong look like he's a big boy. But true progress comes when filmmakers are able to make completely mind-boggling effects that have no purpose other than being really funny to look at.
That's where Corridor Digital comes in. They've essentially made it their mission statement to see how strange and surreal they can get with their visual effects expertise, purely for the sake of entertainment. Rather than the bloody task of making Spider-Man R-rated, this time they've elected to do something a little more family-friendly. But first, one has to ask a very important question: What if eminent English actor Ralph Fiennes was actually, literally Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter?
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If that was the case, then every movie that starred Fiennes would actually star the decidedly less face-heavy evil wizard. Based entirely on that hypothetical scenario, the team at Corridor Digital went to work painstakingly editing footage of Fiennes from his various films over the years in order to make it seem as though Lord Voldemort himself was the one appearing in those roles. While the idea may sound easy enough, it was more complicated than just running the footage through some deepfake software and calling it a day.
The Corridor Crew accomplished this task through a number of methods. Taking footage from a GQ interview with Fiennes, the team split up to work on their preferred effects and ultimately decide which worked better in each scenario. One group chose to use the
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