Game of Thrones - No spoilers

[FourWheelDrift]

This is really good, Series 4 VFX reel - https://vimeo.com/100095868

Helps you to spot the real from the CGI and maybe the locations if you happen to be over there or to see just how much isn't real in some cases.

Peter Dinklage is CGI !!!!

[irocfan]

FourWheelDrift said:

This is really good, Series 4 VFX reel - https://vimeo.com/100095868

Helps you to spot the real from the CGI and maybe the locations if you happen to be over there or to see just how much isn't real in some cases.

Peter Dinklage is CGI !!!!

excellent posting!!

[richtea78]

I hope there isn't a Kingsmoot. The Iron Islands bore me.

That SFX is amazing. I'm shocked how much if it was CGI!

[Bullett]

That's amazing, the stuff you don't even consider as CGI like changing the lay of the land.

[FourWheelDrift]

I think in the same way they had birds flying in front of the Colosseum in Gladiator, smoke is the in-thing on GoT CGI to make it seem real.

And the occasional bird

[Halb]

I've seen a pic of the exit from the Wall, that is fun to look at without the snow cgi'd around it.

[Watchman]

Finally, CGI that doesn't look like it is. I am amazed by that.

[Halb]

Watchman said:

Finally, CGI that doesn't look like it is. I am amazed by that.

So am I actually. And I know that GoT has a huge budget compared to shows, but they make their budget stretch, and quite often cannot do everything they want because the budget is used up.

[JontyR]

Just imagine what the budget could be if they get the go ahead to make the movie!

Their budget for the seasons (Series) must be getting bigger year on year with the increase in popularity and more people willing to back it based against the revenue it must generate. There cant be many countries it isn't sold into now.

[Asterix]

Bullett said:

That's amazing, the stuff you don't even consider as CGI like changing the lay of the land.

Brilliant.

What's cool is it shows the future of video games as well. At some point in the relative near future the processing power and GPU power will match up with a viable VR system and it will be bonkers.

[Sonic]

That really is quite incredible isnt it?!

I've always been fascinated by how they manage to map the track of the camera to a 3D model... i mean photoshopping a still picture, fine, that makes complete sense, but generating a 3D model that continues to pan/tilt/rotate along with the track of the camera and continue to accurately manipulate the source footage - i think that's seriously impressive!

[richtea78]

Im not 100% sure but I seem to recall that a lot of the software was developed by Peter Jacksons studio (Weta?) for the first LOTR trilogy?

I think he told a story about how they created software to make people move in groups logically during the battle scenes but the first time they tried it out one force ran off

[Halb]

richtea78 said:

I think he told a story about how they created software to make people move in groups logically during the battle scenes but the first time they tried it out one force ran off

That's funny. Would have made a better battle of Pelannor Fields as well.

[maximm]

Might get some of these in time for the next series....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2685832/Wi...

[Conian]

richtea78 said:

I think he told a story about how they created software to make people move in groups logically during the battle scenes but the first time they tried it out one force ran off

Reminds me of an old RPG game on the Amiga years ago, they tried to give the monsters a bit of AI so they'd interact with each other a bit and create more challenges for the players.
Trouble was, they had a bit too much AI and all the monsters met in the middle of the level and waited to attack the player en-mass

[Steve vRS]

irocfan said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHlzIgSvnYc#t=13

I can't stop singing this and annoying my wife!

Steve

[BlackST]

Just bought this

[irocfan]

I got one of these:



and a Night's Watch tee

[FourWheelDrift]

[Asterix]

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