Game of Thrones - Season 8 | Breakdown Reel | Image Engine VFX

[@jamesrobson4894]

That moment you realise Rhaegal’s skin and scales are apparently tough enough to smash through several trees at a high speed without causing any injuries, but apparently not strong enough to withhold a scorpion bolt shot from kilometres away... and that’s not to mention the ludicrous idea of scoring three shots on a dragon using nothing but your eyes while moving on a ship... I didn’t even mind Rhaegal dying, but it should have been due to fighting Viserion in the long night, more epic, grander death, dies for a reason- saves Jon and weakens Viserion. Regardless, amazing work on the dragons. They’re absolutely stunning.

[@methlokaijufan9729]

Weird how the dragon fight looks a lot brighter and more clear here than in the episode itself

[@davideghirelli4453]

no color grading

[@mimiaqua423]

Now I see the full extent of rhaegal’s enjuries. Damn his belly has some deep cuts. Poor baby he fought like a champ

[@MateusSilva-fm2zc]

Well done. Those scenes were so complex! You guys have just changed the way we watch TV series. Thank you for this remarkable work! I'll never forget that.

[@avanornto6809]

I totally agree with you unknown person Lol

[@MateusSilva-fm2zc]

@@avanornto6809 LOL. Great lad!

[@ShadnicThe]

I wish that they had made the Dragons' colours more vibrant on the show. Seeing their actual colours before all the lighting effects are added made them look all the more beautiful. Especially Rhaegal.

[@sunshinething]

Best VFX on television ever and will continue to be so for a good many years to come. Nowhere... absolutely nowhere... has dragons that look as complex, natural and real as on GoT!

[@jam7778]

Amazing cgi. The best of dragons cinema history. Much more better than Smaug too.

[@madmanarca3558]

Incredible stuff, it's bonkers seeing VFX like this in a TV show. Was constantly impressed with the actual animation of the dragons (as I have been throughout the show). The wight simulation is very cool. Shame about... well, you know

[@Beastiie7]

What software do you use? LIKE you do work on a PC or a MAC?

[@CatsClaws.]

Thankfully this wasn't ruined by the terrible writing. What an outstanding you job you lads did! Fantastic!

[@kattycharisma]

I appreciate cgi animation very much. These dragons might be something made in a computer, but damn I loved them so much.

[@katherinee.1213]

The last season had bad writing and ended in a shitty way (just my opinion if you like it it’s fine) but the CGI is incredible and the dragons look so beautiful 😍

[@jalin8039]

i love the 8th season, but thank you for saying (just my opinion if you like it it’s fine) RESPECT

[@atxgojira6269]

I like the dragon fighting part😉

[@DNotzz]

Crazy to think they never had Tyrion or someone bring up the idea of putting saddles on the dragons. Just rawdogging the dragon at 1000 feet is CRAZY. it would’ve been so cool and a nice little subplot for Tyrion and Danny, at least HOTD got it right.

[@3cBilalrd]

Love your work guys. Love from Pakistan

[@TheONE-mi7sz]

A dance of dragons adaptation would be quite the thing. Such a shame this amount of quality was put into a bad writing.

[@sad_manatee1]

Well, now season 2 of hotd is finished and there will be 4

[@jeromeyjohnson4867]

great work guys

[@Beastiie7]

AMAZING!

[@lalitdesai6321]

fantastic! this loos really cool

[@ernestoneyra]

How much do you charge for a 6.12 seconds dragon animation? We need one for a music video

[@inspirationalgoosebumps6006]

Wait, was the dragon cg ? I thought it was real this whole time.🤦

[@helenpratt1715]

know that how I imagine a dragon

[@NeilTorres]

So goooooooood

[@Sher245]

The fight with the Ice dragon is rather medium, but there may have been production problems who knows.

[@fang609]

Could you elaborate?

[@kushidaya]

insane

[@Touchgrassplz]

I'm going to guess...Houdini?

[@leodavi7105]

Houdini is only for vfx .. but animation rigging ..and stuff like that u need other softwars to work together for the process (maya..zbrush..substance painter ..ect )

[@Hunter-tv3wh]

Lol, weta digital is good than image engine in dragon fx... I like o smaugh dragon from the hobbit movie..it is best in everything than GOT dragon😂

[@panicabbie18]

Funny you say that. Weta did a lot of the vfx for this season and some of season 7. Especially when it came down to environmental fx, they were the ones behind a lot of it

[@jam7778]

Smaugh -it's holly shit dragon . Drogon better 100%. Smaugh seems like duck . Most horrible dragon ever . Sorry for my English, it's just, I love dragons so much , in games , tv and movie , but Smaugh ..... it's terrible dragon ever. Even Alduin better.

[@RavageStudio]

@@jam7778 Smaug was done in 2012 and this Drogon in 2018, 6 years and a lot of new tech makes drogon better.

[@jam7778]

@@RavageStudio am.no..... Budget hobbit 3 almost 200+ millions $. Budget GoT season 8 = 90millions$

[@RavageStudio]

@@jam7778 Yes and so? There are many other costs than vfx, besides creating smaug probably cost more than the dragons in got, because the tech they had back then was more lacking