Anyone else notice how great of a job Dis has done on the new concept art of pushing Beast's Castle up and far away as opposed to the photos coming out from Hogwarts at WWOHP!?
I'm shocked that Uni didn't build the mountain of Hogwarts taller to give it more of a look of being farther away. From the photos I've seen, the forced perspective doesn't work because it's too close to the ground and other structures/trees in the area. While Hogwarts is taller, you can tell from these pics that trees and other buildings in the area completely destroy the illusion that the building is tens of stories tall.
Look at how big the construction lights are compared to the actual structure (which isn't tall enough to give the illusion that the castle is far away):
http://www.screamscape.com/assets/images/2009_1229_Hogwarts1_400.jpg
While the structure is certainly big, look at how the trees and other buildings around it make it look tiny by comparison:
http://amoonshadow.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/hogwarts.jpeg
Had it been higher up, you'd never be able to tell. Your mind tells you that the palm trees are six feet across and the buildings next to it are 3 or 4 stories tall, so when next to Hogwarts, you can tell Hogwarts isn't very big.
By comparison, look at how Disney has pushed Beast's Castle higher up and farther away (with no buildings and probably fake tress in scale around it) to completely sell the illusion the castle is enormous:
http://.smugmug.com/Walt-Disney-World/Jose/11450070_L8yZg#805138484_mvbBK-A-LB
Hogwarts is the main selling point of WWOHP. While a large structure, if IOA's Hogwarts comes off as obviously out of scale – and people are going to IOA actually expecting to go inside Hogwarts (as you can Cinderella's castle at MK) – this could be an epic fail for Universal.
I'm shocked that Uni didn't build the mountain of Hogwarts taller to give it more of a look of being farther away. From the photos I've seen, the forced perspective doesn't work because it's too close to the ground and other structures/trees in the area. While Hogwarts is taller, you can tell from these pics that trees and other buildings in the area completely destroy the illusion that the building is tens of stories tall.
Look at how big the construction lights are compared to the actual structure (which isn't tall enough to give the illusion that the castle is far away):
http://www.screamscape.com/assets/images/2009_1229_Hogwarts1_400.jpg
While the structure is certainly big, look at how the trees and other buildings around it make it look tiny by comparison:
http://amoonshadow.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/hogwarts.jpeg
Had it been higher up, you'd never be able to tell. Your mind tells you that the palm trees are six feet across and the buildings next to it are 3 or 4 stories tall, so when next to Hogwarts, you can tell Hogwarts isn't very big.
By comparison, look at how Disney has pushed Beast's Castle higher up and farther away (with no buildings and probably fake tress in scale around it) to completely sell the illusion the castle is enormous:
http://.smugmug.com/Walt-Disney-World/Jose/11450070_L8yZg#805138484_mvbBK-A-LB
Hogwarts is the main selling point of WWOHP. While a large structure, if IOA's Hogwarts comes off as obviously out of scale – and people are going to IOA actually expecting to go inside Hogwarts (as you can Cinderella's castle at MK) – this could be an epic fail for Universal.
