‘Well, if we’re going here, here, and here, then we’re probably going to be following this person and this person, because that’s where they were last season.’”Given the increased level of direct plot detail in the new credits, the Elastic team did get more specific information for Season 8 than they had received in previous seasons. For the past seven seasons, the astrolabe engravings have been the same, We have another glimpse of Westeros’s more recent history in this second look at the astrolabe, which depicts the The credits continue on further south, down at King’s Landing, currently the seat of The final astrolabe rotation shows us four dragons — one large and in the foreground, the other three flying alongside — with a horde of horses (perhaps representing the Dothraki) below. “You became acutely aware of the relationships between everybody, and how these things are going to come to a point.”The Elastic team felt the credits could reflect that sense of immediacy and intimacy.“You’re not getting this overarching view anymore. May 12, 2011, WRITER: Will Perkins, INTERVIEW: Ian Albinson, LAST UPDATE: June 29, 2011 at Art of the Title; Secrets Behind 'Game of Thrones' Opening Credits (Video) - An interview with the creators of the title sequence 1:24 PM 4/19/2011 by Tim Appelo at HollywoodReporter.com I love watching the show, and honestly look forward to watching every story beat unfold.”Top: The model for King's Landing from the original opening credits; bottom: the model for King's Landing from the new credits.The old credits always ended at a location far from the central action in Westeros, either tracking Dany’s journey through Essos, or sweeping over to the remote locales of Dorne or Oldtown. Still, after getting the opportunity to revisit the credits for the final season, it’s been easy to just keep thinking, “The places that I would have loved to put in [the credits] over the years are the places that have the most emotional resonance, not necessarily the places we spend the most time,” said Shintani, who cited the Season 6 episode “The Door” — when the Night King attacked the home of the Three-Eyed Raven and we learned the origin of Hodor’s name — as the episode that particularly resonated with him.“We never really established where that was,” he said. vote votes. Is the comet just fire or something else Cersei should soon fear? Of course, there are dragon skulls in King’s Landing already, but maybe this image was also a hint at Daenerys’ eventual rule since she famously started this journey with three dragons. For its first seven seasons, the opening credits for Game of Thrones served as the TV equivalent of the map inside the front covers of George R.R. The interiors of two major locations are shown for the first time: the crypts of Winterfell and the Red Keep at King's Landing, as well as the latter's throne room. The sequence depicts a three-dimensional map of the series' fictional world, projected onto a concave earth, and lit by a smal In earlier seasons, the credits highlighted locations in Essos like Vaes Dothrak and Yunkai even when Dany wasn’t actually at those places. ET This one follows directly after Winterfell is shown, so it stands to reason this metaphor is going down at the Starks'. Game of Thrones … “The first seven seasons, there’s an impressionistic aspect to the title sequence that I really like in an 8-bit way, in the same way that you would like With that ability came a shift in how the Elastic team envisioned what the credits could do in supporting the larger story.“To me, in Season 7, all the storylines and all the interactions between all the characters became a lot more intimate,” Shintani said.

“‘All the things that you wanted to do, let’s do it.’ For us, seven years of ideas just started pouring out.”“In a way, we would have been really sad not to have had a second shot at doing all the stuff that we really wanted to do with the titles,” Wall added.