How does Hagrid look so big in the Harry Potter films?

[Feek]

We've had a Harry Potter weekend and I keep wondering what effects are used to make Hagrid look so huge? I'm guessing a similar technique was used in the LoTR films to make the hobbitses look small but I don't know how it's done.

I'd like to.

So come on, who knows?

[Matblack]

I believe it was a mix of green screen and forced perspective sets for LOTR

MB

[Matblack]

Rosemary, 15, Enfield
How were the hobbits made to look so small in the films?
Billy Boyd: They used a lot of different techniques which I think works to great effect.
But it's not all done with blue screens, it's not as though we were standing in front of a blue screen every time there was a scale shot.
Sometimes it would be as simple as the hobbits would be on their knees and that was enough to sell the idea that they were smaller.
There's also a thing called force perspective, that they've been using in movies for years, and in force perspective what happens is because a camera is a two dimensional thing that if someone's closer to the camera they look bigger.
So they would have Ian McKellen close to the camera and have me further away and it just looks as if he's 11 foot and I'm 3 foot.
But what they did on Lord of the Rings, which had never been done before was force perspective could only ever be done if the camera was standing still but not anymore.
It was invented now that they had a camera that could move, but because the camera moves the actual set has to move as well.


MB

[Feek]

Well I sort of get that, but then you have a shot of Hagrid and Harry walking along in a crowd of people where Hagrid is mah00sive and everyone else is tiny.

[Belmit]

Some of those you don't see his face IIRC. It'll be a long or wide shot and a double.

[leowyatt]

The Bilbo scene was done with 2 sets and the scene where Frodo meets gandalf was done with fixed perspective and dwarfs wearing masks :)

EDIT: English rugby union footballer Martin Bayfield has portrayed Hagrid as a stunt performer in longer shots due to his large size to emphasise Hagrid's height.

[Dymetrie]

Robbie Coultrane is actually a half giant. The correct question to ask is how they made him look normal size in everything else he's ever been in!

:D

[Kitten]

^^ this!