The first scene of the episode opens on a gloomy and vengeful dragon queen clearly angry about Jon’s true parentage being blurted by the ones she had sworn to secrecy and she least expected to betray.
Having lost two of her dragons, most of the Dothraki Army, learnt Jon’s lineage and seen the capitation of Missandae’s head at the hands of Cersei, She is beyond gutted.
As Danny learns about her hand and her confidante betraying her trust and plotting against her, she executes him Varys for his impudence.
Execution of Lord Varys
Here we see Drogon facing up against Lord Varys in all his glory reading to burn the traitor to a crisp. Actors against the screen where the dragon is placed in the close-up as can be seen clearly here. A rather chilling scene where Lord Varys is ratted out by Tyrion. Lord Varys looks prepared to bite the bullet as he naturally anticipated what loomed ahead of treason.
Gate Obliteration
We see the two armies face off against each other at the King’s landing entry gate when suddenly dragon’s fire takes out Cersei’s army in a blanket attack, obliterating the high gate along with it.
Gold Army wipe out with dragon fire portrayal with digital crowd simulation and fire elements and debris
Covered by as many as eight cameras, each camera carried the explosion further and the fire element was extended for making it travel as far back as they needed it to.
Gold Company General collapsing
We see Golden company army barbecued without a warning with an overhead Dragonfire smoking out the battalion that thronged the gate while the crowd inside attempts to escape. All scenes seem succoured by greenscreen, live-action and VFX elements. The real Gold Company and the digital gold-company for crowd simulation are created for the gravity of the scene.
Digital and real Gold company. Trained for action against chroma screens.
The Iron fleet is simmering with blood-lust and Danny’s temper is riding high. Mounted on her dragon, she is on a genocidal spree, wiping out populations down below.
Danny’s dragon carnage making
As the dragon rises and swoops over the monuments spraying fire all over, Danny is no mood of stopping. Despite surrender, she refuses to cast mercy on any King’s landing dweller.
Flame-throwing on set
Entire set at the backdrop of Green screens with red markings and a flame-thrower operated in a controlled environment served for the firebreathing scenes of dragon’s kings’ landing carnage.
Elements put together to complete the imagery.
Dragonfire over the crowd looks petrifying as different components are brought together to create the imagery on a canvas depicting the destruction brought on by Danny mounted on her dragon.
Digital and actual set
The entire set had to be designed only to demolish it later. While some scenes were created on software, most of them were an actual set construction.
Wounded civilians portrayed through CGI techniques and prosthetic.
A combination of makeup, prosthetics and a ton of CGI with green markers on the bodies, casualties and wounded were depicted in Danny’s genocide.
Arya hobbling towards her horse
Witnessing a ton of popular characters being killed in one way or the other, we see a terribly injured Arya making out alive and approaching her horse at the end of the episode.
We can’t wait for the finale episode to see the fate of the remaining characters. We shall keep you updated on the VFX aspect of the final episode. Stay tuned.
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