In a quick new interview with Total Film Rupert Grint and David Yates discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.  The quotes can be read below or seen on the scan in the gallery.

“The Great Hall turns into this flaming ball of rubble with dead children and bodies everywhere. It’s shocking but going to look really cool!”

David Yates had this to say about the film:

“There’s so much emotion – and death,” sighs a blessed-out David Yates of the last act, in which several key characters crake it.

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The nominations for the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards have been announced and there are a bunch of Potter related nominations.  The nominations are as follows:

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS – The Fighter
HELENA BONHAM CARTER – The King’s Speech
BARBARA HERSHEY – Black Swan
LESLEY MANVILLE – Another Year
MIRANDA RICHARDSON – Made in Dagenham

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Nominees TBC
BLACK SWAN – Dan Schrecker
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 – Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait’Hadi, Christian Manz
INCEPTION – Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
TOY STORY 3 – Nominees TBC

MAKE UP & HAIR
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Nominees TBC
BLACK SWAN – Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 – Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
THE KING’S SPEECH – Frances Hannon
MADE IN DAGENHAM – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou

ORIGINAL MUSIC
127 HOURS – AR Rahman
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Danny Elfman
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – John Powell
INCEPTION – Hans Zimmer
THE KING’S SPEECH – Alexandre Desplat

The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 13 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.

Framestore who helped to create the Tale of the Three Brother’s sequence for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have a page on their website dedicated to the scene where they have a short clip from the scene as well as some technical information about it (some of which may be read below).

Led for Framestore by Dale Newton, the animation is created in sepia tones and its mysterious characters are conveyed through silhouettes and shadows, inspired by traditional eastern puppet theatre. The clip is so beautifully detailed and intricate that it required over six months of work by a team that peaked at 32 Framestore VFX artists. Framestore’s creative energy was put to good use in pre-production by designing all the characters and lighting concepts that would establish the all-important look and feel for the piece. One of the distinctive elements to come out of the design phase was a papery, grainy background which bound the images together well and added to the overall ethereal feel.

“The sequence was a compositors dream job,” says Russell Dodgson, “technical, challenging and with an ever-evolving creative process that required a lot of ‘out of the box’ thinking.” Nuke’s faster workflow and tight integration with 3D applications aided artists and clients by being able to respond to director feedback and get more creative iterations before the deadline.

Due to the relatively long shot durations, cloth simulation on death’s cloak and the bride’s dress proved challenging. The brief in the case of Death was to create an ethereal otherworldly movement that felt natural in this stylised world. The team decided that the wizard characters’ cloth would have a stiff puppet look to further distinguish them from Death.

Dale Newton, said: “The film itself gave Framestore a great opportunity to create more cutting edge visual effects. But this storybook sequence posed a different set of challenges: namely how do you create a delicate, papery animated sequence in CGI? How to create compelling poetic characters in a dramatic narrative when only using shadows and silhouettes? So rather than being the visual effects task that we’ve all become so accustomed to, this was more a creative voyage of discovery.”

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In a new interview, Andrew Ackland-Snow, the art director for the Harry Potter series, revealed that the death of Severus Snape has changed.  Do not read further in this post if you don’t want to be spoiled.

Alexis Liddell, the concept artist for The Tale of the Three Brothers animation in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, released a bunch of stills from that scene.  There is also a short seven second clip that you can watch below. View all the photos in the gallery!

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In a new interview with SoccerAM James and Oliver Phelps talked about football (soccer for us American’s) their futures in acting as well as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II.

Thanks SnitchSeeker!