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Originally Posted by wstar
Actually they're both in the show. They've used various mixes of dogs (Huskies I think), trained real Wolves, CGI, and just plain perspective trickery. The problem they face with all of this is that the Direwolves start out as pups, but eventually should be the size of a small horse when fully grown. The trained regular wolves with a little bit of camera/perspective -trickery do well for their adolescent state, but eventually they'll have to use a lot more CGI tricks to get them up to full adult size.
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I believe they used Northern Inuit's, not huskies. Only reason I remember is because I read somewhere that the actress that plays Sansa was rumored to have adopted her "direwolf" who played Lady on the show after filming was over.