We spoke to Thomas Schelesny, VFX Supervisor at Image Engine, to learn all about the process of bringing a GoT dragon to life – from initial references to creature anatomy, facial animation, and dragonfire – and to discover how cineSync ties it all together. Image Engine was also the main facility responsible for dragon animation in Game of Thrones‘ epic final season, creating 99% of all dragon performances, alongside several digital environments that built out the world of Westeros.
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The Academy Award-nominated team has built a remarkable reputation for the creation of extraordinary creatures, environments, and effects for a broad range of films and television series – including recent ventures like Game of Thrones, Pokemon Detective Pikachu, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, to name a few. On the other hand, we would not have had to sit through Gus Van Sant’s bizarrely pointless shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.Vancouver’s Image Engine is one of the world’s most respected visual effects studios. Martin Scorsese would never have made The Departed, David Cronenberg wouldn’t have made The Fly and Michael Mann would never have delivered Heat. Without it we wouldn’t have the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit, or the last three remakes of A Star Is Born, including the Oscar-winning Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga take from five years ago. Truth be told, this is all part of Hollywood’s endless recycling programme – a process that has been taking place since the dawn of cinema. Who might play the Minions in a live-action remake of the Despicable Me films? And what about a new version of A Bug’s Life shot with real mutant talking insects? I’m imagining an 18 certificate live-action take on Wall-E, with those famous rogue robots on board the Axiom transformed into even more violent killer machines. The possibilities are endless if it’s no longer necessary to wait 20 years before recycling any given creative property. Photograph: ScreenProd/Photononstop/Alamy Mutant offspring … The Fly (1986), directed by David Cronenberg, is a remake of a 1958 film of the same name. Or perhaps someone with an even greater gift for comedy (a returning Mike Myers even?) via mo-cap?
Or perhaps Disney could bring Frozen back to the big screen with fewer songs and real, cod-Nordic medieval settings? Then DreamWorks could return the favour with a live-action Shrek, starring Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson as the grumpy green ogre. Just you wait until Disney works out that it can squeeze even more creative juice out of its properties by remaking Toy Story in live action, and then Avatar as an animated film (though some might argue that would just be an unauthorised remake of Ferngully: The Last Rainforest). Instead, a single idea can be transformed into pixels and back, over and over again, many times over the next few decades.
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No longer does the arrival of a hit movie mean a sequel is the most likely next step. The success ( at least most of the time) of the Mouse House’s mission to transform its back catalogue of animated classics into fancy, CGI-assisted live-action films seems to have inspired a sea change in Hollywood.
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