“There were little things where I was like, I wish this shot was wider. So we would take the shot, shrink it down and create a matte painting to make a shot wide. In that scene, where Gawain is hallucinating, we shot it in relatively close proximity. There wasn’t a wide shot of him where he was. So we took the widest shot we had and shrunk it down in the frame, so it was occupying less space. Then Nick went in and created a 3D landscape that tied into the photography and painted in all the rocks and the landscape that would have been there. And he lit it to match the lighting we had on set and turned what was initially a pretty tight medium shot into a big wide shot. And he had to add a fox into it, because all of a sudden, the fox would be there. So it was things like that, which you don’t watch the movie and think of as visual effects. That’s just me getting very meticulous about how I want to reframe this image..”

— David Lowery via MOVIEMAKER Magazine