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Professor Gilderoy Lockheart, the self-regarding and inept new teacher (played by Kenneth Branagh), tries to impress an inattentive ‘Defence Against the Dark Arts’ class with a cage full of 'freshly-caught Cornish pixies'. The pixie sequence is an early comic highlight in the film, coming soon after Harry returns for the new term. The birds were videotaped and the footage pored over before work began. Returning to first principles, the team had several live birds brought in for examination, including a Blue Macaw and a Turkey Vulture. Fawkes’s distinctive bright red and gold plumage meant that the interaction of individual feathers could not be fudged, as it might be with hair. The 3D team initially attacked the feather problem as if it were a variant on the hair problem, but soon realised that this was unsatisfactory. The surface geometry of feathers is more complex and their interaction with each other subtler than that of hair. In fact, feathers are an even trickier proposition. Fawkes onscreen is a largely digital creation, with some animatronic close-ups.įeathers, like hair a couple of years ago, have become a hot topic in CG animation. He becomes an ally of Harry’s and comes to his aid in his hour of direst need, when he battles the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets.
Fawkes is a Phoenix, the mythological bird that immolates itself and is then reborn.