CGI

DOP Russell Carpenter, ASC talks virtual scouting, performance capture and lighting Pandora in the latest Avatar instalment

You are a builder of worlds, you sit astride multi-cinematic disciplines with the imagination to foresee complicated but extraordinary movie sequences: you are a visualiser.

There was the movie Babe, with real animals talking with animated mouths. There was Avatar, with a few motion-captured aliens mixing it with real actors.

Now the dust has settled on the finale of Game of Thrones, it’s time to look back at the technical story.