Interviews

How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian

In its spectacular setting and storytelling, Prince Caspian proposes a unique blending of live-action and CG animation. So, Animated Views was anxious to talk with the movie’s VFX supervisors Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers about how they made the magical world of Narnia really take life right before our eyes. Both VFX wizards are no strangers to the company of Andrew Adamson, one having worked on the visual development of Shrek and the other having been part of the first chapter of the Chronicles. […]

Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams talks Prince Caspian

Caspian is more or less an acoustic score, as was LWW. As I often do, I integrated some of my customized sounds (nothing heinously electronic!) alongside an orchestra, a choir and various ethnic instruments from all around the world to create the sound of Narnia. It is amusing to me that on LWW I seemed to ruffle some people’s feathers for sounding too electronic. Please! I enjoy and listen to plenty of ‘electronic’ music and sometimes create scores along those lines, but…. well…. I don’t know what some people’s idea of ‘electronic’ is, but it’s not mine. […]

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C.S. Lewis

Tumnus’s Bookshelf: The NarniaFans Book Reviews: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: “Caspian’s Army”

Welcome to Tumnus’s Book Shelf where we review any and all books related to Narnia and CS Lewis! For this weeks review, we will be looking at The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: Caspian’s Army

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Interviews

NYC Prince Caspian: Day 2 – Interview with Ben Barnes

Here it is, the interview that many of you have been waiting for. Prince Caspian himself, Ben Barnes. He walked into the room and really ran the place. A totally cool and laid back guy, he was really easy to talk to. After the interview, Ben got a sword. One of the toy, Caspian swords, that makes a noise when you swing it. The first thing that he did when he got it: he swung it at my neck. He was very excited to finally have a sword, and whenever he walked around, he was swinging it, so that it would make the awesome slashing sounds. […]