Game of Thrones – VFX Breakdown of „Hardhome“ 

[Warning: Spoilers]

Episode 8 (aka „Hardhome“) was the first highlight of the latest „Game of Thrones“ Season. In this action-packed Episode Jon Snow is directly confronted with the huge army of the „Others“. For the first time I had the feeling that the often quoted Winter is really coming.

The studio El Ranchito Imagen Digital was responsible for the great effects and retouching.

Concept Art from the Star Wars Prequels

J.J. Abrams is filming ‚Star Wars VII‘ these days. There’re a lots of rumours about the story and the new characters. I posted some leaked concept arts a short time ago. It will be interesting to see more. The look design of the Prequels was also very impressive, altough the first Trilogy were not so convincing as the original Trilogy.

 

The Amazing Spiderman 2 – Behind the Visual Effects

I like the new Spiderman Movies (I was personally involved as vfx coordinator at the first part), so I’m very impressed how they handled the spectacular sparks and flashes and the first appearence of the Green Goblin.

Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki

Moving Castles, Forest Spirits and Master Thiefs – legendary japanese director and animator Hayao Miyazaki brought us fantastic worlds and cult figures. After 50 years of creating fantastic anime films, he announced in 2013 that The Wind Rises would be his last film. A tribute…