CGI VFX Breakdowns: "Game of Thrones" by Pixomondo | TheCGBros

Creative Arts Emmy Winner for outstanding special visual effects for Game Of Thrones by Pixomondo. www.pixomondo.com *****SPOILER ALERT***
• Valar Morghulis • HBO • Bighead, Littlehead, Generator Productions, Television 360, and Grok Television in association with HBO Entertainment
Credits:
Rainer Gombos, Lead Visual Effects Supervisor
Juri Stanossek, Visual Effects Supervisor
Sven Martin, Animation Lead
Steve Kullback, Lead Visual Effects Producer
Jan Fiedler, Visual Effects Producer
Chris Stenner, Lead Animator
Tobias Mannewitz, Visual Effects Concept Artist
Thilo Ewers, Environment Lead
Adam Chazen, Visual Effects Coordinator

[@indiciaobscure]

Best use of CGI I've ever seen! Makes use of the stunning natural landscape, but creates imposing but realistic elements, to create a believable but breathtaking world. This is the future of CGI and I'm so excited.

[@6TheBACH]

+indiciaobscure They are doing this for almost 30 years now... Watch "True Lies", is one of the first movies who entroduced the "Real CGI". Cameron basically invented this.

[@akbarsaidov3620]

sex

[@ariana_reynolds]

You would think this would ruin the illusion for me; however, seeing how this is all made is even more magical than before o.O

[@TheBadbro12]

Oh. I thought they had real dragons.... Small part of me just died.

[@ausgebombt]

the impressive thing is that the riggings of the models are actual animated bones; the detail put on what we will never see is astounding

[@romulusx16]

ausgebombt We see it without seeing it to be honest :P

[@saraajayi-dopemu7180]

Dang, pixomodo are REALLY good! Almost every shot looked absolutely lifelike, but still artistic and painterly.

[@antinbath]

Some amazingly talented people working on this. I love watching these VFX breakdowns.

[@boniek11101988]

I watched many versions of it on KZbin, but this has the best quality...

[@TehCream]

This is incredible. I knew a lot of work went into this show, but I didn't expect this, I honestly have no idea what to believe on the screen anymore.

[@jjmatteo]

You guys are awesome. Art in movement. Without you the series wouldn't be the same.

[@RedBootsAnimations]

Always great to see the before and After of production and post-production

[@niccoarcadia4179]

The imaginations are spot on! Great Medieval style fantasy castles/++! Won my heart!

[@abelskie]

I love how even this is made with special effects. All the love and admiration to everyone who brings the magic of the Ice & Fire saga to life.

[@michaelsabater2596]

definitely some of best CGI i've ever seen...

[@DiegoNuevo25]

Mate painting, textures, 3d modeling, fume fx....AMAZING !!!!! and the computers to use AWESOME !

[@JamesDestroXXV]

The break down of the explosion of the ships is pretty cool. Kinda beats the old days when they would've just blown up a bunch of minatures in a bath tub!

[@EvanSol919]

It really is amazing how real everything looks.

[@kevinbrueck]

DUDE! It is the best. You will get hooked.

[@ThunfischXXx]

wow now i see how much work goes into a film or serie like this

[@reddog418]

The mark of any good story is temporary suspension of disbelief. CGI is making it so easy to tell good stories.

[@SuperHperTube]

Wait a second...Game of thrones isn't...real? D:

[@Eddnatal]

I am not a big fan of visual effects in movies, but i must say, the final results of this are fantastic.

[@TheFandril]

Wildfire explosion is from Season 2, Episode 9, probably one of the finest hours of TV EVER! :)

[@Fr34k1ng0ut]

Amazing for a TV show. Almost as good as Lord of the Rings in my eyes. Which is still the best.

[@doctorwhofan2563]

guido van der wal The Hobbit has cartoony CGI.

[@abu7zboon]

lord of the rings sucks !! this is way better

[@ChyvDso]

@@abu7zboon dont forget cgi wasnt that good back when lor was made ;) so stfu

[@sniff745]

i cant wait for next season to start , one of the best shows on tv now

[@Calane248]

"Hey, what´s your job?" "I build dreams!" AWSOME!!!

[@gymmli]

"CGI VFX Breakdowns HD". How great! I love 360p HD ...

[@OnceUponADreamscape]

This may sound goofy but I fell in-love with this theme song when I first watched the first season :D And yeah can't wait for GOT season 3 !_!

[@romanon5]

Imposibru! This is completely awesome!!! Wow what a wonderfull graphic work!

[@DrRandomness]

Okay, 1:00 gave me chills. And of course, overall: Holy....wow.

[@Bobster930]

Wow, that CGI is amazing.

[@AWSVids]

The one glaring error in the effects that I've noticed is the shadowing on the dragons. When Dany is petting them, the shadow on her arms and stuff is usually pretty fake-looking. It's the one thing that's always jumped out at me. It's too bad, because the dragons themselves look great. I think they just need some more skilled compositors to get those shadows right.

[@quakerbone]

Me too. Almost all of the Others is costuming and prosthetics. The CGI was put in to make them look more other-worldly, like the glowing blue eyes and their sweat literally steaming off of them in the wind. You should be able to find the "before" makeup on winter-is-coming if you search "A closer look at special makeup and prosthetic design"

[@TheFandril]

Such beautiful effects! Honestly most MOVIES don't match Game of Thrones in effects - for less than 10 mill an episode they leave us with an epic of the likes of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars in the sense of multitudes of otherworldly characters and locales! HD video sometime please! :)

[@Wonderirie]

Congratulation Juri !!!

[@stian.]

How in any possible way did you manage to spoil the video quality of the file to this degree? Deliberately?

[@Braderli]

isn't it just amazing what they can do!!

[@webschinkentoast]

Wait, why didn´t they simply shot GoT in Westeros? :D

[@Twilight20saga]

Caramba .. Por isso demora um ano ein .. Lindoooooooo !

[@Straddllw]

CRAZY CRAZY CGI!!!

[@ThyPeaceMaker]

absolutely amazing what they can do with cgi

[@IntrepidSkin]

thanks germans for giving us amazing CGI, Soundtrack and 3 amazing actors, thanks for beeing anglo saxon ancestors to most people on the set

[@GnowkEannot]

I love the shot at 1:00

[@tgotwentyone266]

simply unbelievable, magnify

[@4lynlover]

I love this show so much!

[@brandnewevo]

The only show with more CGI than there are actors.

[@DyNaIVIiC]

damn why can't video game graphics be this good?

[@ayyappaas]

Rendering of these sequences takes time,man. This is not just instant work.Much of the work comes after rendering. It takes a good compositing team to pull off those realistic scenes. 3D renders by themselves just wont do the trick. It's just part of the work.

[@daybarnes]

agreed; a technical breakdown of the phenomenal detail of effects in glorious 360p defeats the purpose of the presentation.

[@BlurStudioInc]

Awesome work!

[@DawidFriebe]

Wow! I wonder to do something like this in near future, this is just amazing! ;]

[@JediPug1]

That was amazing! Thank you!

[@prijackcastro]

Por trás das câmeras.... #gameofthrone #realflow #efeitos #3d

[@digidragon1]

Dang it, I already watched this today. Stupid subscription box.

[@LastSurvivorOfKandor]

The dragon scenes are very beautiful!

[@geneitorvino9306]

truly awesome, I wish I had studied more.

[@rigomortisfxstudios]

every day we watch a fx we all studie more dont worry just think in green screen and your ideas will open up all new worlds its not the tools you need its about make do with what you got

[@thor595]

Nice video. Most of the shots are seamless with the real environment. Very few cgi looking shots

[@leechi1111]

Wow wow wow...incredible.

[@EthanCohenVFX]

It's very similar to the first time you pick up a piece of clay. You just figure out what you can do and just go from there! For organics (people, animals), I'd recommend a free program called Sculptris (while you are getting started) and for non-organics i'd reccomend polygon-modelling in Cinema 4D (which you can get for free if you are a student or a teacher) Have fun! :)

[@smarterthenyou001]

there are a few panning shots that use motion tracking, anouther simple process which takes no time atall... pyke... harrenhal and kings landing...all use motion tracking and minimal cgi, plus the shots are deliberately short but they give the right effect on screen! from what i could tell the explosion at the battle of black water would of taken the longest time to render... i saw shatters and other dynamic's used...

[@mm22mm22]

darn, I was rather hoping to visit some of those cities!

[@TheSteko]

Amazing!!

[@greenbowlfarming7203]

amazing vfx

[@Sandunmax]

Power of CGI

[@realistromeo]

amazing stuff!

[@TheThedragonwarrior]

we need to make it so that we could be in these worlds like a super advanced virtual reality....I can dream can't I

[@panhung]

These effects looks great! Does anyone know know how can i start learning how to do them? Some courses? Tutorials?

[@Ascended._]

this is why it cost them 55 million per season! my favorite show!

[@lionmaster333]

wow i need to start watching this show.

[@moglijs]

Just perfect.

[@RamyRC]

wow

[@Weirdgus]

very awesome stuff, CGI stuff is so real these days, I mean like :o

[@boniek11101988]

From 1:47 is "The Throne Is Mine" from season 2 official soundtrack (2nd on the list)...

[@BeckyoltYT]

There were that few ships in the explosion at Blackwater?? On the other hand, the breakdown make it look like there were A LOT more knights in Tywin's cavalry charge at Blackwater lol.

[@wolflover6666666666]

King's landing = old city of Dubrovnik (Croatia), Qarth = Lokrum an island infront of Dubrovnik only 15 minutes by ferry from the Old Town ^^

[@Joopicas1]

AWESOMEEEE, I love GOT!!

[@atalentnoob]

yes they are!!!!!!

[@royaltyfreemusic6784]

nice job

[@frozeneternity93]

I had no idea all of that was computer generated! These people are f*king artists!

[@ILCOSTI]

i will never understand why they chanced the book in so subtle ways, like the shadow that cut the throat to renly; the tent was full of witnesses but nobody could see exactly what happened, renly was wearing the green armor, the piece around his neck was torn, and the blood shot everywhere...

[@ChaoticGoodDeeds]

Beautiful

[@MrTigrika]

damn.. now i want to rewatch season 2 again

[@ISetYourFaceOnFire]

The cgi in this show is outstanding.

[@FantaClown]

Eccezionale !

[@jhonattansiqueiramarafigo8256]

that is ... Perfect ...

[@infatum222]

my inspiration

[@Relux]

I have come to expect this as standard.

[@ChiefRepublic]

I thought the dead horse thing was a physical effect. Very good CGI I must say.

[@aundreyka]

EPIC!

[@sa4reel]

Great job! what's the software you're using?

[@bsvenss2]

Saleh Alzughaibi MS Paint

[@DrGurple]

i need to watch this series

[@wysiwyg2006]

the creatures in the series are obviously CGI. its the CGI scenery that impresses me.

[@ashley-cz1sl]

That's amazing

[@christhal995]

thank you

[@AllanGildea]

jaw dropping!

[@DrLeoKouts]

its come along way.

[@jjblanquer]

Genial!

[@rammsteinforlife]

SO EPIC

[@imptv]

Great video, but hate that its such a low res upload.

[@VeryFanaticAboutFilm]

This is just like MAGIC, you guys! hah,, aside the jokes,, great video, thanks uploader

[@KASCHBAR01]

erstaunlich was man alles mit guten schauplätzen und viel CGI hinbekommt. Man braucht bald nur noch grüne Wände und ein Paar typen die vor der rumhampeln.

[@thesir27]

was disappointed they didn't show the White Walker effect at the end

[@kittywithawetnose]

amazing