State of the Arts has been taking you on location with the most creative people in New Jersey and beyond since 1981. The New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award-winning series features documentary shorts about an extraordinary range of artists and visits New Jersey’s best performance spaces. State of the Arts is on the frontlines of the creative and cultural worlds of New Jersey.
State of the Arts is a cornerstone program of NJ PBS, with episodes co-produced by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Stockton University, in cooperation with PCK Media. The series also airs on WNET and ALL ARTS.
On this week's episode... New Jersey Heritage Fellowships are an honor given to artists who are keeping their cultural traditions alive and thriving. On this special episode of State of the Arts, we meet three winners, each using music and dance from around the world to bring their heritage to New Jersey: Deborah Mitchell, founder of the New Jersey Tap Dance Ensemble; Pepe Santana, an Andean musician and instrument maker; and Rachna Sarang, a master and choreographer of Kathak, a classical Indian dance form.
In the moment where Caraxes flies low over the rooftops, you can see the warm torchlight flicker across his red scales. That isn't a filter. That is MPC hand-keyframing dozens of light sources to match the camera movement. Perhaps the most disorienting part of the flight is the camera work. Unlike the stable, wide shots of Dany flying Drogon, Episode 4 uses a shaky, handheld aesthetic.
Here is the breakdown of how MPC built the sky for Episode 4. Unlike the clean, heroic flight sequences in Game of Thrones , Episode 4’s dragon flight is messy. Rhaenyra sneaks out of the Red Keep disguised as a boy. She meets Daemon. They mount Caraxes and Syrax. And then? They don't fly in a straight line. They barrel-roll through clouds. They dive toward the city. They lose control. house of the dragon s01e04 mpc
But beneath the incest and the intrigue lies a staggering VFX achievement by . While the previous episode gave us the majestic Stepstones battle, Episode 4 gives us something far more intimate—and ironically, far more difficult to fake: a chaotic, drunken, terrifying joyride on dragonback. In the moment where Caraxes flies low over
House of the Dragon won the Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in 2023. Episode 4 is the reason why. Perhaps the most disorienting part of the flight
In the moment where Caraxes flies low over the rooftops, you can see the warm torchlight flicker across his red scales. That isn't a filter. That is MPC hand-keyframing dozens of light sources to match the camera movement. Perhaps the most disorienting part of the flight is the camera work. Unlike the stable, wide shots of Dany flying Drogon, Episode 4 uses a shaky, handheld aesthetic.
Here is the breakdown of how MPC built the sky for Episode 4. Unlike the clean, heroic flight sequences in Game of Thrones , Episode 4’s dragon flight is messy. Rhaenyra sneaks out of the Red Keep disguised as a boy. She meets Daemon. They mount Caraxes and Syrax. And then? They don't fly in a straight line. They barrel-roll through clouds. They dive toward the city. They lose control.
But beneath the incest and the intrigue lies a staggering VFX achievement by . While the previous episode gave us the majestic Stepstones battle, Episode 4 gives us something far more intimate—and ironically, far more difficult to fake: a chaotic, drunken, terrifying joyride on dragonback.
House of the Dragon won the Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in 2023. Episode 4 is the reason why.
