Creature of habits

A signature element of His Dark Materials (authored by Philip Pullman) are daemons, which are animals that physically embody the soul of their human counterpart. Fans of the coming-of-age fantasy trilogy will not be disappointed when watching the adaption by Bad Wolf, New Line Cinema, BBC One and HBO, as season one based on The Northern Lights (known as The Golden Compass in North America) consists of eight episodes that encompass 2,000 visual effects shots featuring 1,000 of daemons and 385 of digital bears.

Complex creature work

“ is a gigantic creature show with complicated nuanced animation and proper character building, including making CG characters that have to play alongside lead actors,” observes series VFX supervisor Russell Dodgson () who distributed the workload among