House Of The Dragon: HBO Will Correct The Viral CGI Blunder

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HBO will correct the VFX error fans spotted during House of the Dragon episode 3. The prequel to Game of Thrones premiered in late August and became the streamer's most-viewed series, with 9.99 million users tuning in for the first episode. With such high numbers, it was only a matter of time before viewers caught the CGI blunder.

King Viserys, played by Paddy Considine, is missing two fingers on his left hand due to a mysterious illness. But during a scene featuring the monarch in House of the Dragon episode 3, titled «Second of His Name,» fans noticed the VFX gaffe that would help edit his missing digits in post-production. The blink-and-you-miss-it House of the Dragon mistake happens when King Viserys decides to send out help to Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) and his brother Daemon (Matt Smith) to defeat the Crabfeeder.

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As humans are behind groundbreaking technology like CGI, it's normal for some details to skip past the VFX artists, but HBO will correct the mistake nonetheless. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the revised version of the episode will be available on the streaming platform HBO Max. The error echoes a similar situation that occurred years prior onGame of Thrones when someone left a Starbucks cup on a table during a scene from the fourth episode of the show's final season. During an interview with THR earlier this year, showrunners Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan J. Condal joked they had «a very heavily policed set — there was lots of Starbucks-hunting going on» to prevent another incident. On a more serious note, Sapochnik and Condal reasoned that those situations are frequent on film and television.

Despite the infamous CGI blunder, House of the Dragon is doing