An unexpected masterpiece

View Experiment

I really didn't expect to like the show as much as I did. I expected a montage of excellent fight scenes, but instead I got scene after scene of stunning, quiet shots. Tone setting, framing, colour, and lighting experiments.

Without spoiling too much, this is the view from a character's eyes as a child. The wonder of a cloth waving in the wind, filtering the sunlight. In a child's mind it might as well be the ocean on a perfect day. I think it's the kind of memory most of us have, whatever the specific visual. Recalling when our eyes saw the world in a beautiful, different way.

How it was made

• I recreated the tile pattern in Figma (using components to do a simple tile test)

• Added some distortion (the patterns look imperfect and painted in the show)

• Did a test in Blender using more complex cloth simulation and adjusted the UV mapping

• Ported a mesh to Spline (mostly as I needed the UV mapping changes)

• Redid the waving with a material displacement and used a depth material to simulate the lighting