Need something strange in your neighbourhood? Who ya gonna call? Well, production designer Marcus Rowland and visual effects supervisor Sean Mathiesen, as it happens. They talk us through bringing the dead back to life and building the world of Lockwood & Co.
EARLY CONCEPT ART
MR: Romek [Delimata, concept artist] did that. With discussions with Joe [Cornish, showrunner] super early on, we did this visual with Romek before the series was commissioned, I think it was two weeks into the first lockdown [2020]. We did a few images of key frames to get the ball rolling and get an indication of the direction it should go into. Then Framestore did some 3D modelling of how those component pieces would fit together, but the visual and the process changed along the way.
SM: You can see the rapier is leaving a trail. That comes from Jonathan Stroud’s books. It’s something that we also spent quite a bit of time on. It ended up if you were to take a sword and slice through the water in
