'Game of Thrones' Visual Effects - Inside 'Battle of the Bastards'

[@HBMHD]

This episode had better VFX than many 100+ million dollar Hollywood films; amazing job!

[@natanaelrodriguez3953]

HBMHD Aint this series above 100+ or 200+ million budget, The VFX studios Game of Thrones uses are the same top ones used by companies like Warner Bros for movies, the top vfx house that Made Mad Max Fury Road Storm scene is the same working on this series.

[@luisfernandorodrigues609]

THE most realistic battle scene ever! I Could physically feel the agony when Snow started being trampled over.

[@Ben-rz9cf]

yeah up until this point i don't think anyone quite captured the destabilizing chaos of it all. i would love to work with these guys but i think i would be totally in over my head... which is cool because i thrive in sink or swim situations

[@ne1up]

Samesame to both of you. I'm a combat veteran and that battle, that initial explosion of chaos...that was one of the best I'd ever seen. The fury of it was spot on. Also totally "liked" that closing shot of this video, where he's fighting that guy who gets hit by a horse and bounced away, and Jon just has tunnel vision and keeps coming after him to finish him off. It's a little thing, but tunnel vision in combat...just struck a chord with me. Sorry to comment a two week old thread, geeking on VFX videos as I'm a bit of a cg geek.

[@Ben-rz9cf]

***** i've been in a lot of riots when i was locked up and it was a lot of the same. thats one of the things about fights like that, they never tell you how quiet it gets. not quiet, really, but i don't know how to describe it, the noise floor starts whooshing in your ears until it fades into the background and all you can hear is silence, everything you do is on impulse, like you're watching someone else inside your body. the adrenaline starts pumping and you don't know what you're doing until you've already done it. all of a sudden you hear people shouting at you and you realize you're on top of someone pounding their face in. And the last few minutes, all of that was a gut reflex, choices you didn't have the time to even think about making. I actually studied vfx in college though which is one of the reasons i know how impressive this is. I'm still trying to get the knee joints on my singular horse model to work properly and it doesn't even have the same kind of muscle systems they got theirs. Add to that what i assume are soft body collisions, combined with hand animation, motion capture, some kind of blood and cloth simulations for the skin puncturing, motion tracking, compositing. And finding a way to do that all at once, with like 80 different animated characters in a single scene that really should be a damn near impossible task. Most people have to cheat just to do it with 2 characters.

[@B20C0]

Realistic? No. Good looking? Certainly top 10. As funny as it may sound, Troy is WAY more realistic regarding battles than GOT but still far away from being accurate. The main flaws with nearly all movie/series depictions of battles is that: 1) People used spears as primary weapon, not swords (though they had swords as secondary weapon). 2) People used shields. Always. People would throw away their sword before they would throw away their shield. 3) Armor was useful in reality. You cannot impale a knight in armor with a sword through the chest, that's why swordfighting was about finding the gaps.

[@rickybansal9465]

Probably the best battle scene I have ever seen. As a student of VFX, I hope to be able to create scenes like these one day.

[@gusmaiawork]

remember they've a VFX team, not a VFX guy, it'd take forever to do something like this single handed :D

[@rickybansal9465]

Really!? I had no idea it wasn't a one man job! WOW

[@gusmaiawork]

Ricky Bansal was the sarcasm really needed? I was trying to be nice, just forgot about all those brave men behind a screen for a moment, lmao

[@Joaoxorubatsu]

It's not usual to see CGI in tv series that can be compared to the ones in Hollywood movies. This crew made an awesome job. It's perfect. Game of thrones is one of the greatest series of all times.

[@dimitreze]

Better battle than all of battles in the Hobbit movies.

[@jonsnow5285]

but not the lord of the rings

[@lazyfingrz]

Ya right . . . like you know how all these go from start to finish. Please dont judge if ya not from the vfx industry.

[@BadlndsBob]

I agree totally. The CGI in the Hobbit movies left much to be desired. We might not be in the industry, but, aren't the movies designed for novices?

[@blokfluitknaap9874]

Dany without a dragon but still flying (4:18), best shot ever!

[@intrsoul]

The fact that you take it all for granted and feel the emotion of the story is the highest achievement.

[@BadlndsBob]

Great show. These days, it is not easy to tell the real from much of the CGI. I didn't know those were real flames. We know that the dragons are not real, but, the detail and design of them is so outstanding. The Giants, well they're kind of real (there is a real person in makeup). What an excellent show.

[@jaderobbo]

Fantastic behind-the-scenes look into these amazing VFX!

[@jayj9440]

This show and the VFX artists in this will go down in history! Hope they continue and get a chance to work on bigger projects!

[@romypie3725]

Fantastic, reminded me of The Lord of the Rings battles, which I consider incomparable, taking into account it was 16 years ago, something amazing for that time.

[@redfelixus]

I agree. In terms of epic scale and grandeur, Lord of the Rings is battle is great, but this battle has a better atmosphere in terms of close and personal feel of being a soldier in the middle of the fight. The amount of chaos that is happening and the way it was presented is really great.

[@larnizzo91]

Respect. Kudos. Congratulations. Well done. Amazing. Unforgettable. Awe inspiring. Few words to describe my thanks to the VFX team of this show. They blew me away! Better than most movies I've seen in recent memory. Just... Wow

[@spilledinkcinema]

Love this! Those guys are so talented. Battle of Bastards was simply amazing.

[@RaymondMcCarthyBergeron]

Just when you thought you knew how they pulled off episode 9, this video just blew my mind yet again. Love their clever sticking to real FX to get the job done. It's amazing.

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

This is FANTASTIC ! ! The Hows and What-fors, without too much techno-babble(which geeks will tear to pieces and offend and insult one another without imaginative insults, and poor spelling and bad grammar, because they do that, too) - a nice taste of detail. A nice look at the production team without going into Tabloid TV overkill, as well.

[@SandroNitri1]

The most insane breathless 20 min of my life and keep up this wonderful work!! All the best from Brazil!!

[@LotsOfRobotsINC]

This whole session has had great FX shots, you can really see the improvement over the life of the series.

[@Funkroza]

What an episode

[@gregoryharris2207]

Game of Thrones is the true "epic" of present-day theatrics.

[@Colonel1954Dz]

I feel bad for watching GOT for free, all that effort!

[@jaseheff5022]

Absolutely stunning work, the FX crew rocks!

[@jonsnow5285]

one word: incredible

[@RebeccaIAllen]

Your whole team is amazeballs! Really, the show just stuns!

[@dougwerby]

This was great to see so soon after the programs release.

[@BADAB0O0O0O0O0M]

The Artisans series is my favourite on this channel

[@Winduct]

If these guys can do such vfx for television imagine what they could do for film...

[@marcellinus3981]

the same...

[@Touchgrassplz]

actually these firms are usually accustomed to VFX for films, but im impressed they managed to pull these guys in for a TV series!

[@edwinmontenegro1103]

GENIUS!

[@biplavpoudel]

I never knew Battle of Bastards was made with VFX . lol i thought the war scene was real ! Amazing !

[@uptonroboticsptyltd3665]

so good to see.

[@numberonereview3907]

awesome vid

[@SD-UHD]

3:52 I wouldn't mind a million dollars guys. No strings attached.

[@DanielRieger]

Definitely the best scene in the series

[@DanielRieger]

wasabiwars222 Good point, ok, best battle in the series!

[@Striker163videos]

+Daniel Rieger one thing I love about the battles is that they are all different, so they never get redundant.

[@hsr89]

this is so cool

[@srinivasan81311]

Amazing

[@dypygaming]

Mastodon Fan 3:23 oh yeah! boy!

[@rediav]

amazing!

[@stocchinet]

4:58, the guy has a bottle of Fiji water on his leg, he knows how to do the A E S T H E T I C of an episode

[@cubdukat]

And to think that a lot of this CGI came from a completely free 3-D Animation program: Blender. This has to be the best endorsement for Blender there could ever be.

[@overcharged2078]

how do you know that?

[@ShehbazAhmed5]

How many visual effects artists did it take to execute this?

[@MeepMeep88]

DID anyone else notice the floating arrow on the GIANT?

[@MeepMeep88]

King Dormak the chromosome expelling forniphile Ohhhhhh I could not understand the life of me as to why that was there, honestly lol Thank you :)

[@lewisfitzjohn]

4:18 Bollywood remix plz

[@issaHMD]

An episode on superb Visual Effects and Variety still has their horrific watermark jizzed on the screen.

[@amoyap]

Anyone knows which vfx studio worked for this episode????

[@amoyap]

I thought the effects were made by MPC but I will try to find this german companies Thanks for answering!! ;)

[@Clairevoyante]

lloura (battle with john snow and bolton), Rodeo FX (Mereen and battle in mereen), Rythm and Hues (dragons), and previz by The THird Floor

[@Clairevoyante]

www.cgchannel.com/2017/01/watch-the-10-best-visual-effects-breakdowns-of-2016/ have fun!

[@amoyap]

Clairevoyante wow!! thank you ;)

[@Clairevoyante]

Álvaro Moya De nada! :D

[@donalddrunk9882]

does Indians mean enythin else in England.. or they er really talkin about Indians..?

[@SAMTHINKS2]

I think he meant the budget frustrations originated from the John Wayne days of film making. An embarrassing reference but not mean spirited.

[@RohonNag]

being proper Indian myself, they mean to say Red indians. riding out on horses, like in the revenant...

[@KarlooAudi]

so this is a fucking game, not movie

[@marcellinus3981]

1000 Indians? Dothraki ffs