Quick Hits: VFX company added, Dothraki creator interviewed

Crotalidian (Paul),

not to mention Rimshot and all the wonderful people on this forum…(whoops!)

Very impressed by the special effects team. Making it all look seamless shouldn’t be a problem for them. I’m stunned and pleased that there is so much high-scale film talent behind GoT. Epic of the year!

Also, if there are any wealthy Canadians who want to fly me with them to Belfast for the moot, I’m in! Flights from Toronto are $1800+, but don’t think I didn’t consider it for a crazy moment. The kids don’t need new shoes yet, do they? XD

Must admit, I’m looking forward to Thurdays Moot here in Belfast. Only down side is that I’ll have the car, so no drinking.

They seem to have a lot of Matte Painting in the show reel, which is probably one of the main functions they’ll have on GoT inserting all those backgrounds. Animation Not so many egs there of animation (ie dragons) but visual effects for the others should be pretty straightforward.

Crowd / Battle shots look pretty cool too.

The Sweeny Todd and Troy reels were the most impressive.

Martin

The budget for GOT isn’t exactly that of a huge Hollywood blockbuster epic. And also, each season will last for ten hours or so, so i do not expect, nor do i feel the story demands this super expensive look.

More than anything, i hope this show looks as real as possible, so theres nothing distracting the viewers from the story and character interaction.

sjwenings: The budget for GOT isn’t exactly that of a huge Hollywood blockbuster epic. And also, each season will last for ten hours or so, so i do not expect, nor do i feel the story demands this super expensive look.

Yea, I’m sure the effects won’t be quite as extravagant as a huge Hollywood production, but it’s good to know that the quality is there. Keep in mind that the clips from Troy were over 5 years old, and that technology moves very fast. Things that were only affordable in huge Hollywood productions 5 years ago eventually become available to productions without those budgets.

Personally, I’m hoping for somewhere around the quality that Rome had. You didn’t see a lot of the grandiose, wide-shots of the city like you’ll see in huge productions… it spent most of the time at street level but did an amazing job of bring the sets to life and making it feel like a real city.

Caedes,

Was Fara the one who started the online Bear McCreary to compose GOT petition? Being a fan of the composer or not, I don’t understand that mentality. If these guys (VFX and composer) turn out a kick ass show who the hell cares. No one knows how well it’s going to come together yet, so I think we can relax until we actually see something significant.

I’m happy with the composer but that wasn’t a major concern of mine,,,the vfx house however has my interest…I hope they’re up to the task…Still dying for a real trailer…

Winter Is Coming,

I agree, and that’s going to be sometime in December if IMDB can be believed.

Also IIRC HBO didn’t tell us that there would be new GOT footage until a couple days before it aired.

Winter Is Coming,

Yes please, bring on the dialogue already!
I’ve been so pleased with how things are unfolding so far. I’m still in a position where I’m just excited the series is actually being made. There’s going to be a whole lot that will be different form my expectations, but I actually tend to like that a lot. It’s one thing with most Hollywood features where the original property is trampled by people with no real interest in the story other than how it can make them a buck. Obviously, HBO wants the show to translate into financial success and new subscribers, but D&D’s unabashed fandom makes me excited about how they will interpret the story differently than I did. After all, GRRM is happy, so why shouldn’t I be?

As to the FX, if it’s anything like the the environment and background work done in John Adams, I’m ecstatic. If anyone hasn’t seen the VFX features for that show, take a few minutes right now:

Lord Ned’s Head,

I’m pretty sure it’s still March, but I’ve seen a lot of people hypothesizing lately that it’ll get pushed back to April or May. :/

Steve Westenra: Lord Ned’s Head,I’m pretty sure it’s still March, but I’ve seen a lot of people hypothesizing lately that it’ll get pushed back to April or May. :/    

My theory is they’re going to air the first episode on Sunday march 27th. Now where I got that number from is if you look at the last two seasons of True Blood, they aired it around the middle of June. also we know that GOT will be 10 episodes long and since there’s one statutory holiday (memorial day) in that time you count back 11 weeks and you have march 27th.

Now of course this assumes a few things; I’m guessing they’ll air TB about the same time they did the last two years (but they did air season 1 in September so they might push it back a bit) and also that they want to have GOT end one week and then a new series start on the Sunday night slot the next week.

Whenever they air GOT it seems reasonable they’ll want to use the same time slot they use for all their big shows like TB, Boardwalk Empire, etc. So they’ll have to have GOT done before they show TB. So I think that while HBO airing GOT starting in May is posiable it’s probabley something they’ll try to avoid if they can, the biggest reason being is to keep the TB fans happy, which is their biggest “water cooler” show at this point. So sometime around early April makes the most scents to me right now.

I’m looking forward to this production bringing different things out of the books for me to notice and enjoy – how they’ll use the actors to convey inner thoughts without the ‘voice over’ of the deep POV chapter structure of the books – and how the world itself will look. I hope the production and the script can bring on a sense of satisfaction for the fans as well as still surprise us. That’s the main reason I’m not reading the books again, I don’t want to be bogged down in nitpicking every difference.

Grinbomb,

This sounds very plausible to me (I was kind of hoping someone would try and figure all that out as I kind of fail at math and things that should be simple but aren’t, haha).
One question that I was wondering about that I thought of yesterday, is how GoT is going to be aired in comparison with Big Love, which is another popular HBO show (I read somewhere that its next season is also airing in March).
I mean, it’s definitely not the epic kind of show that this is, but it must be marginally successful for HBO if they’ve made it to five seasons.

Rimshot: Looking forward to seeing some of you at the Moot on Thursday. The guest list is now closed as we have had an amazing response. I’ve managed to convince (although they didn’t need much convincing!) about 12 extras to come along. Talk about setting the sheep amongst the wolves!!Should be fun!BTW – I saw loads of G&H Production vehicles heading for Castle Black yesterday so there must be a bit of filming up there this week.  Quote  Reply

I was up there at the end of last week. Looked very quiet, but there was evidence of having a snow-scene set up a bit away from the main set area – so maybe that’s what they are working on.

I took some photos too (long range telephoto) – which I already posted a link too deep in the scripting thread – but I’ll post again here in case anyone is interested and missed the other one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54790185@N05/sets/72157625088539413/

We were also at ‘Winterfell’ (Castle Ward) on Sunday enjoying the weather and walking around the lake. Not much has changed around there since the last time we visited. They have removed the decorations which were presumably for King Robert’s Visit. Still difficult to get a good view into the main courtyard. But I noticed more construction to form the main gatehouse and fake facades around 3 sides. Couldn’t get worthwhile photos of these as you can only really see the back of the construction.

Do you think we could persuade George to wear a spy camera on Thursday with live streaming to a web-portal for his set visits ?

Martin

Steve Westenra,

Big Love is returning in January of 2011 for its new season but does not yet have a time slot. It has typically aired at 10 P.M., not 9 P.M., I believe, but it has bounced around on the HBO schedule.

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