“The game is the vision”, production designer John’s weight Told E! News, with reference to 2013 Playstation title to HBO’s The last of us is adapted from. “The concept art for the game always looked cinematic. It had a sense of space and lighting and realism to it.”
But as movie -like as it looked, it was still a game. The job with paino, set decorator Paul Healy And hundreds of other craftsmen would build concrete versions of the game’s dueling worlds: it not so distant but subtle-retro 2003, and the frozen-in-the-time version the same year, two decades after life when people knew it was implemented.
“The biggest challenge was just working in a real situation,” Paino explained. “We make a period piece on top of a dried apocalyptic piece, it is also a drama about the people. So there were these multi -layers.”
The production started in Calgary in July 2021, and the Canadian city “worked for some things,” he said, but “I do not think it was ever a place that received no love from the art department or rebuild. In addition, everything has been neglected for 20 years,” so even if an area had the right look to film, they would need to change everything to recognize.
