It was Wunderful getting to know him, but our favorite giant on \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d finally met his end during Sunday\u2019s episode, \u201cBattle of the Bastards.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Wun Wun helped the Night\u2019s Watch army take Winterfell back \u2014 and after he suffered a progressively more traumatic series of arrow wounds \u2014 Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) performed perhaps the only somewhat merciful killing of his horrible life, spearing the giant through the eye, ending his suffering.<\/p>\n
And another Wun bites the dust on \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d<\/p>\n
But it took a lot of work making the show\u2019s best giant \u2014 played by 7-foot-1-inch actor Ian Whyte.<\/p>\n
Even short scenes featuring Wun Wun took careful planning and many days of filming, crew members explain in HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Game Revealed,\u201d a five-part documentary series that goes behind the scenes in filming Season 6.<\/p>\n
Crew members are first given storyboards of the scenes, which they use to create rudimentary animations of the action that looks sort of like a \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d video game. (Side note: Yes, please.) After soliciting feedback from directors and producers, the team tweaks its animation and ends up with an exact plan for each and every shot.<\/p>\n
For his part, Whyte \u2014 who also played Gregor \u201cThe Mountain\u201d Clegane in Season 2 \u2014 would head into costuming as a 7-foot man and come out walking a few inches higher. Computer effects come afterward, but he was already pretty gigantic without any special treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted a large performer because somebody who would be 14, 15 feet tall would have more weight and mass to move around, and a person who\u2019s a normal size would have a very difficult time pulling that off,\u201d Joe Bauer, digital effects supervisor, explains in \u201cThe Game Revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Source: Huffingtonpost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was Wunderful getting to know him, but our favorite giant on \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d finally met his end during Sunday\u2019s episode, \u201cBattle of the Bastards.\u201d After Wun Wun helped the Night\u2019s Watch army take Winterfell back \u2014 and after he suffered a progressively more traumatic series of arrow wounds \u2014 Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":225431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[403,137],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n