Game of Thrones - season VIII
Season VIII of Game of Thrones finally brought to an end my long stint as a VFX concept artist on the HBO series.
For this season I mainly worked on visualizing the Battle of Winterfell and the destruction of King's Landing in the final episodes.
For King's Landing, I developed a true to scale 3d model incorporating scans of Dubrovnik and a giant street set built in Belfast, locating all the shots mentioned in the script and storyboards to make sure they made sense geographically. Shown here are a few shots I had the time to work out as quick paintings.
I joined the show on season 4 and am grateful I could work on all subsequent seasons. I'll never forget the incredible colleagues I had the good fortune to work with. You know who you are.
All work done on behalf of Karakter design studio and copyrighted by HBO.
Drogon clips the snowy treetops during the battle of Winterfell
Daenerys flying through the snowstorm glimpses the fighting below
Daenerys and Drogon get hit by the full force of the Night King's blizzard as the battle of Winterfell rages
A study of the destruction of King's Landing
Using scans of Dubrovnik I made studies of the destruction wrought by Drogon on King's Landing
Using scans of Dubrovnik I made studies of the destruction wrought by Drogon on King's Landing
The main street of Dubrovnik in the aftermath of Daenerys and Drogon's attack
A concept of what the Red Keep may look like after Drogon torches it with his dragon fire, with a deliberate reference to the molten look of Harrenhall.
A less molten version of the destroyed Red Keep
Shot of Daenerys facing her troops gathered below from the steps of the destroyed Red Keep
The view of ravaged King's Landing from the point of view of the gate of the Red Keep. This was based on a 3d model of the city we constructed over the seasons and has all the major landmarks in the correct locations