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On set they had rain and also a lightning lighting rig, which we recorded with some 360 degree cameras so that we could replicate that in 3D. They had some dry runs with the stunties who were playing the wolves, and would do things like bite KatherineвЂ™s arm. Ultimately a more realistic style wolf was decided upon by the team, except they were made a bit bigger because the set piece was about six feet and the wolves needed to be able to just cling to that rock.Д¬iaran Crowley: It was shot in the second week of the production over two days on a greenscreen stage. There were questions about, would they be a Frank Miller-esque 300-style wolf or something a bit abstract. Jenna Powell (visual effects producer): We were able to be involved in the concept stage of the wolves and therefore we were actually able to kind of influence how they were designed.Д¬iaran Crowley (visual effects supervisor): We had done a style book of a lot of images and concepts of wolves. Here the team breaks down the wolf sequence shoot, CG build, animation, lighting and compositing stages, step-by-step. Working overall visual effects supervisor Dave Houghton, they delivered 390 shots for the show, with the wolf pack fight just one portion. To get a sense of how that kind of visual effects sequence was achieved, befores & afters spoke to several members of the Milk VFX team.

Eventually, from her position atop a rock, she is able to use the Sword of Power to defeat them, depicted with a final stylized wolf head decapitation.

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One of the sequences visual effects studio Milk VFX worked on for the Netflix series Cursed-based on the illustrated novel by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler-sees the character Nimue (Katherine Langford) confronted in a forest by several wolves. Milk VFX breaks down a single scene from вЂCursedвЂ™.

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