VFX

“Three dragons, buck shots, fire, we had to create the castle, the whole cliff and the sea, there was a big army enhancement as well — the ratio of super complex, very heavy-lift shots in that episode is off-the-charts high,” said VFX supervisor Daði Einarsson.

Later, the VFX team will seamlessly impose du Pontavice’s face on Broad’s body.

“The reason that CG and digital VFX got maligned is that there was an overreliance and a kind of laziness that started to develop in the industry where it was like, ‘Just shoot everyone on a blue screen and figure it out later,’” Saxon says.

And that even when working with the most renowned companies in VFX, there are still qualities, like the way light falls on an object, that look different when there’s something physical on set.

As well as purely animated films and TV, many live action releases are in large-part the work, of the employees of VFX studios.