We talked to the guy who makes dragons come to life on 'Game of Thrones' about Sunday's big fiery battle
Business Insider recently talked to the "Father of Dragons," Sven Martin who's been working on the dragons at Pixomondo since “Game of Thrones” season 2.
Here's what Martin had to say about the complications of animating a dragon when there's a person (Daenerys) interacting with it.
“This is always the most difficult and trickiest part, when you are dealing with featured characters. There is always so much going on."
"If it's just a dialogue scene or Dany talking to her dragons, it's important that she [actress Emilia Clarke] knows where to look at . . . where the eyes of the dragons would be."
If Clarke doesn't know where to look at, then the scene won't look good once the dragons are put in on Pixomondo's end. Thankfully, Martin makes it clear that Clarke is a total pro when it comes to pretending that she's interacting with a dragon.
“It's important that you have a representation of the dragon's body on set, and that the actor has a hand contact. So the actor touches it, and the hand is moving how and where it should move."
Martin told Business Insider that while he's been invited to the set, he's actually never had the opportunity to go. That's because while the film crew is hard at work shooting the show, his team at Pixomondo is already hard at work getting the dragons ready so the show will be ready on time.
"When Dany is climbing on the dragon and she's riding on the back, we want to make sure that she's really doing the movements the dragon is performing later."
"Emilia made it visually a very natural performance. It’s like riding on a horse. There's so much going on with the body of the rider, you can't cheat that afterwards."
"Having Dany interact with the dragons is the most complicated thing to create, because you have a lot of preparation time, but it's a very technical set with this flight simulator and the performance. And then after shooting you have the lighting and connecting the performance with the dragons."
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