How the Honor Among Thieves team brought D&D’s complex magical systems to the big screen

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves combines CGI and hands-on effects to construct Neverwinter, The Forgotten Realms, and more. Ben Snow told IndieWire that the film’s visual effects team worked rigorously with role-playing game company Wizards of the Coast, the owners of Dungeons & Dragons, to ensure all of the world’s aesthetic elements were designed with precision and meticulous accuracy became.

Snow explained, “Wizards of the Coast has a story group that’s a bit like Lucasfilm, where they take care of the canon and make sure you stay in the world they’re creating, and they do it in a similar way.” previously observed how the company allowed the filmmakers to take certain creative liberties but relentlessly asked questions about the motivations of the characters in the script that don’t align with the traditional roles of “D&D” roles.

He also commented on the numerous variations of computer and hands-on simulations that he and his team would try to fit the rules of the game. Sofina (Daisy Head) became a particularly complex character to build VFX around due to her necromancy as the Red Wizard of Thay – which involved minute details that set the Red Wizards apart from other wizards in the original RPG.

The attention to detail certainly sets Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves apart from other adaptations. And judging by the reactions of fans and critics, the hard work of the VFX team seems to have paid off tenfold.