HBO’s Emmy Award-winning Best Drama Series, Game of Thrones returns for its eighth and final season.
Image Engine created roughly 370 shots for the final season of Game of Thrones which primarily featured dragons on both sides of the stunning battle with the dead. The studio’s role was lead dragon animation facility, through it made other contributions including swarming wights, volumetric storms simulations, and various digital environments such as the forests and canyons that were the backdrop to a dragon joy ride like no other.
Learn more about what we worked on and how we created it by reading our case study.
PRODUCTION VFX SUPERVISOR
Joe Bauer
PRODUCTION VFX PRODUCER
Steve Kullback
IMAGE ENGINE VFX SUPERVISOR
Thomas Schelesny
IMAGE ENGINE VFX PRODUCER
Tyler Weiss
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2020 Annie Award Nomination, Best Character Animation – Live Action for Game of Thrones Season 8, “The Long Night” – Dance of the Dragons
2019 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Special Visual Effects for Game of Thrones Season 8, “The Bells”
2019 HPA Award Winner, Outstanding Visual Effects Episodic for Game of Thrones Season 8, “The Bells”
