A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES (series two) PRODUCTION Sky Productions/Bad Wolf VFX Axis Studios Axis Studios created a historically accurate CG Elizabethan London for the second series of the Sky Productions and Bad Wolf drama. The Axis team delivered 100 shots over 10 episodes, working on the production for 18 months, including throughout the pandemic. The landscape is seen from above in several of the production’s fully CG aerial establishing shots. It is also shown in numerous scenes set inside the city. Axis’s VFX team used period street maps and illustrations, as well as modern terrain data, to help create the reconstruction. The team then created Maya and Houdini pipelines to automatically populate assets such as people, buildings, courtyards, carts, boats, foliage and fauna across the cityscape, rivers and wharves.