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warehouse district. The inspiration for the interior came from another Los Angeles building called the Acme Rag Company. This brick-and-mortar structure has large windows and doors, an upper walkway, a burlap storage loft, multiple skylights and extra-large industrial washing machines. It was agreed that the Starkman building would become the exterior of Grey's ad Alibi bar and the Acme Rag Company would be the inspiration for its interior. The inspiration of both of these structures became the sum total of how the ad Alibi bar should be represented and the reflection of Grey's personality. This now became a job for all of the creative departments to work on in unison, marrying all of the personality traits of Grey lifted from the pages of the script and the graphic novel to build a home where a number of the pivotal scenes would come to life. In developing, designing and executing the visual elements of a series like Stumptown, I gather as many elements of the characters and their interactions with the others that populate their world as possible. y doing this, we as a team add the needed elements to enhance the characters' world and the subtle nuances of those that surround them in each scene. here is Grey's office here does the deliveryman execute his duties Is there a restaurant hat type of lighting fixtures ow is the liuor displayed hat does the seating look like All of these uestions and more are gathered up in the mixing bowl and we as a team execute the design and construction to best appear seamless within their world. Stumptown is not the first graphic novel that has been brought to life for the small screen. ack in , the creative genius Chris Carter creator of The X-Files and Millennium developed a short- lived series called Harsh Realm, based on the comic book stories created by ames D. udnall and Andrew Pauette. In this series, the S military have developed a virtual reality game to replicate real-world disaster scenarios for training simulations. The lead character, Tom obbes, is sent inside the game with one mission to kill a rogue S Army sergeant major who has taken control of the training simulator. It was one of the A. & B. BAD ALIBI INTERIOR. BUILT ON STAGE. C. BAD ALIBI, JAKE'S OFFICE. A B C