Any particular new design challenges in season three?
We’re in the early stages of season three. One of the most fun things so far this year was creating an enormous Buddhist monastery for our first episode, where Angel’s fighting with some bad monks.
We did a lot of extensive research looking at monasteries from all over Asia, through Bhutan and Burma and came up with a design that we really liked. Within that framework we try and base things somewhat on reality so they are grounded in the real world, but from that point on we’re able to take things and get really fanciful with them.
We look at a lot of other movies and we beg, borrow and steal from other designers or other mediums. "Well they did this, let’s elaborate on that," or "They did this and this didn’t work, I’d like to see this happen there". Hopefully someone will eventually borrow from me and I would feel more than honoured if that happened.
Any particular new design challenges in season three?
