hippogriff
noun
hip·po·griff
ˈhi-pə-ˌgrif 
: a legendary animal having the foreparts of a griffin and the body of a horse
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Buckbeak was one of the company’s most memorable creations, with a 90-strong team working for 15 months to deliver more than 80 hippogriff shots for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
From the terrifying Basilisk serpent to the majestic hippogriff Buckbeak, VFX giant Framestore brought to life many of J.K. Rowling’s magical creatures in the Harry Potter films.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
The hippogriff named Buckbeak in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a related mythical creature, the product of a griffin and a mare.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
The Dreaming has two gates — one of horn and one of ivory, built from the bones of ancient gods that picked a fight with Dream eons ago — and is usually guarded by three gatekeepers: a wyvern, a griffin, and a hippogriff.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 July 2022
In our hippogriff, the muscles of the back drive the upstroke, and the muscles of the chest power the downstroke, just as in living bats and long-extinct pterosaurs.
—Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2021
Like these pterosaurs, our hippogriff (really a hippoptero) can use its wings as leaping limbs to execute takeoff.
—Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2021
There are even flying machines, with all their attending complications; a few minutes into Sunday’s performance, when a hippogriff failed to appear on cue, tenor Zachary Wilder and soprano Emoke Baráth improvised to amuse the audience.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
But the resulting cinematic hippogriff is still extremely enjoyable because: a) people, cars, and things get eensy-weensy or ginormous in the middle of hectic yet balletic action sequences; and b) Paul Rudd.
—Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2018
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
From the terrifying Basilisk serpent to the majestic hippogriff Buckbeak, VFX giant Framestore brought to life many of J.K. Rowling’s magical creatures in the Harry Potter films.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
The hippogriff named Buckbeak in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a related mythical creature, the product of a griffin and a mare.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
The Dreaming has two gates — one of horn and one of ivory, built from the bones of ancient gods that picked a fight with Dream eons ago — and is usually guarded by three gatekeepers: a wyvern, a griffin, and a hippogriff.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 July 2022
In our hippogriff, the muscles of the back drive the upstroke, and the muscles of the chest power the downstroke, just as in living bats and long-extinct pterosaurs.
—Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2021
Like these pterosaurs, our hippogriff (really a hippoptero) can use its wings as leaping limbs to execute takeoff.
—Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2021
There are even flying machines, with all their attending complications; a few minutes into Sunday’s performance, when a hippogriff failed to appear on cue, tenor Zachary Wilder and soprano Emoke Baráth improvised to amuse the audience.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
But the resulting cinematic hippogriff is still extremely enjoyable because: a) people, cars, and things get eensy-weensy or ginormous in the middle of hectic yet balletic action sequences; and b) Paul Rudd.
—Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2018
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