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Who won the 'House of the Dragon' finale fight? Fans of dragons — and cutting-edge VFX

Visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton and his massive team are nominated for the Emmy after their work in the Season 1 climax of HBO's " House of the Dragon."

The first thing "House of the Dragon" visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton discussed with showrunners Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal was — surprise — the dragons. The show's predecessor, "Game of Thrones," set new standards for the photoreal monsters; it won seven visual-effects Emmys, after all. The prequel would rely on them even more.

"The original series had three dragons; they were all really variations on the same design," Bickerton says. "We went into this series listing 22 different dragon characters. We only featured nine of them this season. There're probably gonna be more in Season

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