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vital to advancing the story toward its climax. Once again with major wire rigs, stunts, and special effects fire and smoke, the Art Department needed to design a set that felt like it was connected to the estate location. We now needed to tie in a set that could host this epic battle between Homelander, Soldier Boy and Butcher. The location selected for Herogasm was fantastic, but really lacked any "great room" sort of space, and that is what was needed for the set. Part great room, part arena, the crew shaped an octagonal room featuring a sunken floor, a fireplace and a grand skylight, which ultimately would serve as Homelander's escape route. Once the set was built and the stunts were rigged, pre-fight scenes were shot, and then we had a day in which to destroy our work, but in a very "these heroes are fighting," art directed sort of way. Working on this show produces some other challenges, unlike any a designer might face, well, at any other point in one's career. For those who haven't seen the show, the rest will reveal some pretty significant spoilers. In the first episode of season three, the series spends time with The Boys version of the Ant- Man superhero. In our world, that hero is named "Termite," and much like many of the super- enabled, he's a man of questionable character. He does have the ability to shrink to minute proportions while still wielding superhuman strength, even when he's only millimeters tall. Turns out Termite has an affinity for showing off, enjoying hedonistic sexual tendencies and indulging in cocaine. This combination gets Termite into trouble rather early in the story. The viewer first meets Termite in the midst of a party in his loft apartment. Termite is performing for the guests in a rather unusual way, where he is pretending to have sex with a child's Barbie doll in a toy dollhouse. Clearly this shot would require D. HEROGASM MANSION. SET PHOTO. E. HEROGASM MANSION CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION: POST EXPLOSION LOOK FOR VFX. DONE IN PHOTOSHOP BY VINCE PROCE. D E