How His Dark Materials Used Puppets And CGI To Create Realistic Animals, Movies Insider

Awardwinning VFX company Framestore produced a number of daemons and polar bears for the HBO, BBC series His Dark The project was overseen by senior effects designer Russell Dodgson. The team worked alongside studio Painting Practice to cast many of the creatures in the series, which were then brought to life by Puppetry legend William ToddJones. For closeups, some of the puppets like Lyra s daemon Pan, were sculpted heads. Other slinkybody styles of puppet were used for quadrupedal or b