The creative idea for the online commercials required a photoreal flock of flying CG ravens delivering letters bearing the new Game of Thrones stamps. Over a four week period, Coffee & TV’s CGI department meticulously sculpted, rigged and animated the birds’ bodies, wings, beaks and eyes before adding the skin and feathers. New surface controls were developed by the team to give the realistic illusion of wind rushing over the bird. Every raven was required to move differently, so each one was individually hand animated to create a perfect unkindness (plural noun for ravens!).
