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Director Mark Walker's first words on finishing the set list; "How the hell are we going to fit twenty- five-plus sets onto five stages?" It turned out he was a magician, and he kept the carousel turning by setting and striking sets to a very tight schedule. Where possible, I re-vamped sets for ones later in the shoot schedule, such as the marine map room, which became Kaya's wine cellar, and the Shells Town Tavern, where I used the main architecture to create the East Wing Suite, site of the climactic final showdown in episode six. Other sets remained standing for the duration of the shoot, such as Garp's cabin on his warship. Somehow Mark managed to find room for them all. A big challenge on stage was to fit a giant circus tent that would literally fill one stage. Senior Art Director Jonathon Healy-Hutchinson drew the layouts, and with the assistance of Set Designer Werner Hendrich, created a large oval ring at the top, to allow lighting from the grid, and stunt lines for the multiple acrobatic and fight rigs needed. The tent was a patchwork of striped sails, as if made from the old sails of Buggy's pirate ship. To give it form, Jonathon used my references of dazzle camouflage used on WWI battleships. The dining room and kitchen of the Baratie Restaurant took up most of one of our warehouse stages, which were built as a composite set, with views from one to the other. Multi-skilled Art Director Alan Munro spent many days meticulously solving the problems thrown up by a two-tiered oval A. BUGGY'S TENT WAS STITCHED FROM THE OLD SAILS OF HIS PIRATE SHIP, BUT THE DESIGN WAS INSPIRED FROM THE DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE OF WW1 BATTLESHIPS. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION BY MATTHIAS BEEGUER. B. THE BARATIE DINING ROOM WAS BUILT FROM THE PARTS OF PILLAGED SHIPS. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION BY DEON DELANGE. C. THE SET DESIGN FOR THE BARATIE DINING ROOM WAS A CHALLENGING OVERLAY OF CIRCLES, CURVES, AND COMPOUND CURVES BRILLIANTLY REALIZED IN THIS PLAN VIEW BY ART DIRECTOR ALAN MUNRO. D. ILLUSTRATION OF THE BARATIE KITCHEN SET. CONCEPT ARTIST DEON DELANGE EXCLUSIVELY USED PROCREATE TO REALIZE HIS ILLUSTRATIONS, E. BARATIE KITCHEN, SECTIONAL ELEVATION BY CHRIS EVANS. B D A C E