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106 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N UA RY / F E B R UA RY 2 0 1 7 was placed on one side of the set to achieve this. An elevated rooftop interior set, the Sanctuary, was also built for Ms. Swinton's character. This is where Strange gets launched into the trippy parallel-dimension realms seen in the film. Several other Nepalese sets were built, including an ancient library which acted as a portal between the various dimensions. During the final showdown in the third act of the film, Doctor Strange finds himself on a street in front of the Hong Kong Sanctum where a complex, time bending fight ensues. It would have been too difficult to film this sequence on location, so a large set was built at the studio in Longcross. We shot a lot of plate work in Hong Kong, mainly on the streets of Kowloon, that would act as digital top-ups for the street. The set was about five hundred feet long, built to about twenty feet high, finished on all sides and including several intersections. It was important to be very accurate with the building façades and interiors, as these would need to seamlessly tie onto the virtual set beyond. The New York neurosurgery units and hospital interiors were other major constructed sets, built at the studios in London. I found myself at one point watching a live neurosurgery operation in New York. I wasn't prepared for that at all, but we did need to make the operating rooms— four were built—as authentic as possible. A practicing neurosurgeon came by the sets just before filming to sign off on them, and that was what Scott and the actors needed. Charles Wood, Production Designer Ray Chan, Supervising Art Director Michael Manson, Supervising Art Director (Los Angeles) Jim Barr, Thomas Brown, Jordan Crockett, Mike Stallion, Mark Swain, Art Directors Jason T. Clark, Art Director (Los Angeles) Alan Payne, Graphic Art Director Peter James, On-Set Art Director Julia Dehoff, Sarah Ginn, Rhys Ifan, Gary Jopling, Luke Whitelock, Assistant Art Directors Yasmin Al-Naib, Assistant Stand-By Art Director Pete Thompson, Conceptual Production Illustrator Sebastian Meyer, Andy Park, Concept Illustrators Jackson Sze, Senior Illustrator Sam Michlap, Illustrator Roberto Fernández Castro , Paul Catling, Paul Chandler, Bob Cheshire, Josh Herman, Jerad Marantz, Jon McCoy, Olivier Pron, Concept Artists Davison Carvalho, Helen Koutas, Chris Tooth, Graphic Designers Kaush Bharti, Assistant Graphic Designer Steve Christensen, Set Designer Tara Ilsley, Digital Set Designer Stephen Wong, 3D Set Designer Alex Bowens, Dominique Pace, Isona Rigau, Alexandra Toomey, Aoife Warren, Draughtspersons Alison Clements, Junior Draughtsperson Bryan Andrews, Darrin Denlinger, Catherine Devaney, Nick Pelham, Storyboard Artists John Bush, Set Decorator Lauri Gaffin, Set Decorator (Los Angeles)