VFX Artifacts: How the ‘Harry Potter’ miniature Hogwarts Castle was made

March 1, 2022
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A model of Hogwarts castle from the Harry Potter film series is unveiled at the Warner Bros Studio Tour, Watford, London, Thursday, March 1, 2012. The Hogwarts castle model was built for the first film 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', it was created for aerial photography and was digitally scanned for CGI scenes. It took 86 artists and crew members to construct, it measures over 50 feet in diameter and has over 2,500 fibre optic lights. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short)

Model supervisor Robbie Scott goes back to the first ‘Potter’ film in this new ep.

In this latest VFX Artifacts episode, Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to model supervisor Robbie Scott from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to look back at the creation of the Hogwarts Castle miniature from the first film.

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