section_path: Production/Post-production
section_name: Post-production
paragraph_text: Post-production
  
  Framestore is the sole visual effects company working on the film, splitting the work across the company's studios in London, Melbourne, Montreal and Mumbai. Christian Manz serves as the production VFX supervisor.
  
  To drive authentic performances between the cast and their dragons and to inform the work of the visual effects teams animating the dragons in post production, puppets were used on set. Tom Wilton led a team of puppeteers whose on set performances meant the cameraman could frame where the dragon would be while the actors had something to act against. The Framestore visual effects animation team also programmed eight-axis gimbals which were saddled up for the actors to ride with each of the dragon's heads attached during flight scenes. The gimbals allowed each rider to give performances unique to their dragon's flight cycle.
  
  Framestore is the sole visual effects company working on the film, splitting the work across the company's studios in London, Melbourne, Montreal and Mumbai. Christian Manz serves as the production VFX supervisor.
  
  To drive authentic performances between the cast and their dragons and to inform the work of the visual effects teams animating the dragons in post production, puppets were used on set. Tom Wilton led a team of puppeteers whose on set performances meant the cameraman could frame where the dragon would be while the actors had something to act against. The Framestore visual effects animation team also programmed eight-axis gimbals which were saddled up for the actors to ride with each of the dragon's heads attached during flight scenes. The gimbals allowed each rider to give performances unique to their dragon's flight cycle.