Game of Thrones – Making Season 3

We’re entering that most exciting time of year: the ramp up and entry into a new Game of Thrones season. HBO has begun doling out the material. First up, we have a piece on the Art Direction. This includes some cool glimpses of upcoming locations and characters.

Then even more interesting is one on adaption. They don’t say a lot, but as someone who works at storytelling in various mediums (games, novels, and screenplays) I find this fascinating. A Song of Ice and Fire isn’t your typical work, with a single narrative spine to adapt and compress. The same basic mantras of compression apply as they do in most novel -> film/TV adaptions, but the details are much more complex.

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Around Azeroth: Making the band

Submitter Hypernova of CaerBannog on Alexstrasza (US-A) noticed that since Level Whatever Elite Tauren Chieftain is the only band in Azeroth, there might be an opening for some new musicians. So he set up a trio of unlikely boy band members. There's Chicken With a Guitar -- he's the talented one. That gnoll with a shotgun is the quiet one. And the horrifying thing up front, which I thought was some sort of monstrous skinned goblin but Alex Ziebart informs me is actually a particularly ugly sprite, must be the bad boy.
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