Sunday, July 31, 2016
Watch How Special Effects Made Game of Thrones' Season Finale an Explosive Masterpiece
sploid.gizmodo.com: When I close my eyes at night, I can still hear that beautifully creepy score from Game of Thrones’ season finale, I can see the Great Sept of Baelor and the characters inside, and I can feel that chilly sense of doom. It’s funny how real those emotions are still, especially since so much of what we watched on TV was faked through expert visual effects.
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It's amazing to see the special effects breakdown of a scene that recently caused thousands of viewers such emotional trauma, and to see that a scene that viewers only saw for a few seconds had so many hours of work behind it, I find it fascinating. Often special effects are overused in shows like GoT and it makes it so the point is hard to drive home when they are, but I think the producers have done a great job of limiting it's use so moments like this, or when Daenarys rides in on her dragons is just so much more monumental.
Though I see the benefits CGI brings to the table, I personally have a stronger affinity towards the use of practical effects. With practical effects you can watch a movie just wondering about how certain effects were created, whereas with CGI there is no awe or the " I wonder how they did that?" moment. Practical effects also support the large community of craftsmen and artists whose talents deserve to be acknowledged.
If only any digital art program looked anything like these kind of videos... To be honest, I would rather see the artists working on the effects than a video like this that makes it look so effortless. At times, like when the pieces of the floor and architecture fell into place, I was thinking "I bet someone took the time to animate this so that it looks like it's what special effects animators do." I don't really mind though, because most people would get bored by what actually using a 3D animation program looks like. The thing that most interests me about special effects is how the actors work with them. While I'm not an actor, it's hard to imagine staying in character and reacting appropriately to the effects when they aren't happening in real time.
It’s so interesting to look at this video, and the special effect of Game of Thrones is just as amazing as it’s costume design. Actually the adding on of different layers in the video reminds me of the opening of Game of Thrones (the moving 3D map of its world), and the explosion effect is like some Youtube videos. Anyway it’s really fun to watch. I wonder how long did it took the digital designers to make these special effects, if they have some default setting of King’s Landing to drag in, or they need to make new programs for new corners in the city. Also, I think how they transform real people directly into 3D characters by the end of the video is very cool. I would really like to try if myself if I have the chance.
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