How ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,’ ‘Fallout’ and ‘Spider-Noir’ Production Designers Built Out Their Worlds While Honoring the Source Material

How ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,’ ‘Fallout’ and ‘Spider-Noir’ Production Designers Built Out Their Worlds While Honoring the Source Material

Emmy-nominated production designers behind "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," "Spider-Noir" and more shows break down how they designed their worlds.

'Spider-Noir' DP on Crafting Nic Cage's Webslinger in Black and White as Well as Color

You might assume that “Spider-Noir,” the streaming series that takes Nicolas Cage’s character from the Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and plops him into a flesh-and-blood mystery, would lack the visual oomph of its animated counterpart. After all, that film had a unique texture that emphasized its comic-book origins. You could practically smell the ink coming off the screen. How could the comparatively tame live-action landsca…