A empresa que o projetou chamou de "Aparição dos Comensais da Morte".
Nos próprios filmes, nunca há um nome mencionado para as plumas de fumaça que os Comensais da Morte se transformam. O efeito não está no livro, é um efeito visual adicionado para os filmes, então os livros não ajudam a dar um nome. O site de uma empresa que trabalhou para ajudar a criar esses efeitos chamou-o apenas de efeito Aparelho da Comensal da Morte ou fumaça do Comensal da Morte, mais como uma maneira de explicar o que eles significam do que um nome oficial.
Syflex: Where in the film can your SyFlex work be spotted?
David: We used SyFlex in three sequences: the Graveyard, Dark Mark (ministry of magic wizard apparition), and the Portkey.
There were 4 deatheater shots in the graveyard sequence and in total we created 7 deatheater digital doubles that had to be able to be seen very close up on screen. We had the task of creating the deatheater apparation effect. The Death Eaters were to arrive from the sky amongst an amorphous spear of smoke, stabbing into the ground and suddenly taking form amongst tendrils of this acrid black smoke. The black smoke needed to encircle the Death Eaters bodies, becoming the black of their swirling cloaks as they materialized.
- SyFlex in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Eles falam um pouco sobre como o efeito específico foi desenvolvido e por que ele foi projetado para parecer do jeito que faz, mas eles nunca se referem a ele por outro nome que não seja a Aparição do Comensal da Morte.
Syflex: You worked mostly on the Death Eaters... Can you tell us what were the director's requirements here?
David: The Death Eaters had to be dark and scary with a really sinister quality to their apparition effect. It needed to look like an 'amoprhous spear of smoke' stabbing into the ground, with a certain level of supernatural control to the smoke as it swirled around the materializing digital double. The director had shot plates of the deatheater actors as he imagined they would step forward out of the smoke at the end of their apparition, so we knew we could create a transition from a digital double to the real actor if we had to. The problem with this was the takeover point from one to the other - matching the exact position of a digital double to the actor at any particular point would have been very time consuming. In the end the cloth simulation and final render of the Death Eaters was so convincing that in a number of the shots we kept the digital double in the shot and left the actor out altogether.
- SyFlex in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Isso parece implicar que essa empresa (que trabalhou com o diretor) imaginou ser um tipo de Aparição única ou praticada principalmente pelos Comensais da Morte. Nesse caso, é um subconjunto de um tipo de mágica já nomeado.