Seeing the original live action footage reminds how challenging these productions must have been for the actors. There's nothing around you but green screen and a stunt rigger. The dialog sucks and you're little more than a puppet in these action sequences, week after week of shoots.
Lucas wanted to push the digital envelope, but the contemporary Harry Potter films also by ILM have aged much better because they relied on physical sets and practical effects as much as possible. You can tell the actors are actually within a world.
off the top of my head i thought the hp films have tons of digital effects that has aged poorly that could have been pratical and been much better, but after some research there was actually an absolute ton that would now 100% just be CGI these days. i do however thing house elves and centaurs and dementors could have been more practical and possibly been better? hard to say though.
like even most full body shots of hagrid was a robot-face version of him
Lucas wanted to push the digital envelope, but the contemporary Harry Potter films also by ILM have aged much better because they relied on physical sets and practical effects as much as possible. You can tell the actors are actually within a world.