Pixomondo

Pixomondo is an international visual effects company which is the the primary VFX provider for Season 2 of the Game of Thrones TV series adaptation being produced by HBO.

History
Pixomondo has a global network of studios in twelve locations around the world, including Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Los Angeles, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Toronto, and Baton Rouge. Their overall headquarters is in Frankfurt, Germany.

The studio has previously provided CGI and VFX work on films such as Sucker Punch, Super 8, Red Tails, Snow White and the Huntsman, and The Hunger Games. In February 2012, Pixomondo's work as lead VFX studio for the Martin Scorsese film Hugo won the Academy Award.

Game of Thrones
Work on Game of Thrones is done in the Pixomondo facility at Stuttgart, Germany.

They designed most of the creatures on the TV series, including the juvenile Direwolves and Dragons. They also work on battle augmentation (digitally doubling up crown shots so that armies seem larger than the smaller number of actors who were actually present), and set extension (adding in backgrounds so cities seem to stretch off into the horizon).

Work on VFX for the series led done under the guidance of ''Game of Thrones ' VFX supervisor, Pixomondo's Rainer Gombos, and Pixomondo visual effects supervisor Juri Stanossek.