As fans eagerly anticipate tonight's season five finale of "Game of Thrones," a bit of fun information about season six has come to light. Yahoo! got a chance to speak with the visual effects supervisor, Joe Bauer, and the prosthetics supervisor, Barrie Gower, about the major happenings in season six. And trust us, they are BIG.
"Hardhome," episode eight of this season, and "A Dance of Dragons," last week's episode, have upped the wow factor when it comes to effect work. That trend will only continue next year.
"Between Season 3 and Season 5, our shot count doubled," Bauer said. "There will be other environments that we haven't seen people in before. Not only that, the dragons will again be double in size. Which isn't a problem for the graphics, but on set it's an issue. When the dragons were small, we had little foam rubber models of each dragon and we could carry them on and off of the set and it was no big deal. Last year, the best we could do was a head and this year it's going to be a finger nail or something, I'm not really sure."
If you thought Daenerys' dragons were intimidating and powerful now, just wait until they are twice the size come next year. I don't know much about Westerosi war tactics, but that seems to be a pretty big advantage. Coming from someone who just saw "Jurassic World," I can't wait to see those dragons more physically mature.
On top of bigger dragons, Gower promises something even more exciting.
"[David] Benioff and [Dan] Weiss, when they write the outline each year, for the last two years, we got to this one point and we read this one gag and thought 'Oh my God, how the hell are we going to do that? But this is going to be incredible!' And then it got pulled and we didn't do it in Season 4. And then, lo and behold, in Season 5 there it was again. And it's pulled again! But now, in Season 6, it looks like we're going to do it. Fingers crossed they won't chicken out."
