I assume we all have seen and enjoyed “The Witcher” on Netflix – and most of us have seen the cinematics for the games, and a few have even played them. Reason enough to pull it all together and talk to the guys who made the cinematics and quite a few shots for the show: Platige Image. We talked to Visual Effects Supervisor Mateusz Tokarz (whose credits include projects like “Safe Inside”, - “Lilyhammer” and “The Giant Mechanical Man”), compositor and Art Director Rafal Sadowy, whose recent projects were for example “Wonder Woman”, “Another Day of Life” and “Antichrist” (still a favourite of the editorial team), and VFX Producer Krzysztof Krok, who worked on “Lilyhamer” as well. DP: The obvious first question: Did you get to play “The Witcher” as official prep for doing the VFX on the show? Mateusz Tokarz: Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, the showrunner, stated clearly from the very first day that our world is going to be based on books and stories, not video games. DP: Since you did the cine...
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