Alexander Levine crosses the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during the marathon in New York on November 3, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)

A man with an American flag on his back and a Biden/Harris campaign flag rides an electronic skateboard through Black Lives Matter Plaza in front of the White House on Election Day, November 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. This year's historic presidential election between President Donald Trump, the incumbent, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden begins to come to a close even though final results are not expected for days to come as states take longer to count historic levels of mail-in ballots. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Kylie Jenner attends the 2019 Met Gala celebrating “Camp: Notes on Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

American rapper Cardi B jumped on stage at Met Gala 2022 afterparty at Boom Boom Room on May 2, 2022 in Manhattan, New York. (Photo by Sansho Scott/BFA.com)

American actress Kiernan Shipka poses with “May flowers” in Venice, Italy in the last decade of May 2022. (Photo by kiernanshipka/Instagram)

American actress Kate Hudson gives a shoutout to Italian luxury fashion house Maison Valentino in the second decade of July 2022. (Photo by katehudson/Instzgram)

“Diver in Magic Kingdom”. Green Lake (Grüner See) is located Tragöss Austria. In spring snowmelt raises the lake level about 10 meters. This phenomenon, which lasts only a few weeks covering the hiking trails, meadows, trees. The result is magical to watch diving landscapes. Photo location: Grüner See at Tragöss, Austria. (Photo and caption by Marc Henauer/National Geographic Photo Contest)

The characters fighting for Westeros in Game of Thrones are fighting mostly for CGI backdrops. Like many others TV series and movies, visual effects is a huge part of the production process as it handles details both great and small. A great credit to Game of Thrones is that the story is so good that we forget about the effects, and another great credit goes to the VFX team because their work is seamless. If you want to see the seams, you have to get a visual breakdown of how the shots are put together.