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Ultimately we had to choose between Wun-Wun and the direwolf, so the dog bit the dust.
It wasnt only in the Battle of the Bastards that viewers felt Ghosts presence curtailed.
Fans were rightly appalled.
Like Sapochnik before him, episode director David Nutter was called on to answer their confusion.
The sidelining of Ghost in particular isone of the shows more conspicuous departures from George R.R.
Weiss and David Benioff have exploited on the screen.
This may surprise some viewers, but the wolves arent ground-up digital creations.
They are real wolves, shot on a green screen and later superimposed using digital compositing.
Its an old-school method, the way they do it, he explains.
And it absolutely looks better because they do it that way.
The mind reels, considering the particulars involved.
It can be hard enough to have a wolf wander into a stand-alone Winterfell shot.
Having him actually interact with the characters is another story.
You need it to actually look like the kids looking in the wolfs eyes, and thats hard.
They dont go to such lengths just to make the lives of the VFX teams easier, obviously.
Grounding it in the real is way better for any effects shot, period.
