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Bence Erdelyi - Art Director It might be boring to hear this but, the best of it all was that I got to know Stefania. She really represents something in this industry that is so rare to find. Sets are being built in a fairly good uality nowadays no matter what. That is the expectation of the industry, but the atmosphere of how it is created and then built is what's made the difference for me. This is the something I like to remember the most, this is what I compare between productions. Véronique Melery - Set Decorator Working on this vast range of sets, so different from each other but all offering such challenges of creativity, pushed us far from our zones of comfort. Going from Ancient Egypt to contemporary Cairo, contemporary England to 1980s US, imaginary worlds colliding with real ones, images picked up from distorted minds, a fantasy universe of Marvel heroes...the Art Department's journey has been exciting and challenging. Beautiful details achieved by a fantastic team of craftsmen, dedicated to produce the most amazing and evocative background for this moving and epic story. Sándor Jani - Art Director A truly amazing experience. Building the set of airo streets was definitely the biggest challenge in my professional life so far, I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunity! Nedda Négyessy - Set Designer I loved watching the regiment of sculptors working on the gigantic statues. How tiny they seemed next to them made me comprehend the scale of ancient gypt, and humans' effort to reach eternityeven though they were only carving Styrofoam. And I loved our team and Stefania's big laughshe made the oce a sunny place in the midst of Hungarian winter. Gyöngyvér Kabai - Graphic Artist What probably amazed me the most is that even though we were working on a fictional world, we paid so much attention to detail when it came to the Egyptian sets. So much that even the details we knew would not be visible were well thought out and thoroughly consulted with our Egyptologist. We learned a lot and I have so much more respect and appreciation toward the ancient Egyptian culture than before. Ali Hossam - Consultant I remember vividly my conversations with Stefania about how far a film set can go, and what our art and craft can do to achieve reality, working with the brilliant Hungarian Art Department on the airo Streets set that was built in Budapest. nce everything was put together, I was standing on the highest point of the set looking down and suddenly I felt home. I knew then that we managed to capture the soul of Cairo with all its contradiction and beauty. ADG Stefania Cella, Production Designer Peter Findley, Domenico Sica (Jordan), Super vising Art Directors Bence Erdelyi, Sándor Jani, Karim Kheir, Art Directors Csaba Bányai, Marco Torresin, Assistant Art Director Nedda Négyessy, Zsófia Kóthay, Andy Broomell, Samer Raie, Set Designers Jason Horley, Senior Concept Artist Agnes Kohl, Júlia Sebök, Peter Várdai, Dave Freeman ILM, Concept Artists Jeff Read, Illustrator Gyöngyvér Kabai, Enci Bognar, Pateel Kishmishian, Graphic Artists Véronique Meler y, Samer Raie (Jordan), Set Decorators G