What are some of the inspirations for armor design? Is there quite a bit of variation between the Andoran and Shienaran armor? Our show could be all green screen, all CGI, but I think you’ll be surprised by how much of it was actually built, and touched and held by our actors. I want things to be as real as possible, so in any place that we possibly can, we’ve built things instead of trusting to effects. How do you decide what needs to be physically made, like the sword, and what’s going to be effects? I’d be shocked if less than 10,000 woman/man hours were spent on the design and creation of the Heron Mark sword. There’s a whole team of people (and we have a few BIG book fans on the props team)looking at every item held by an actor on the show. I was in at least 20 meetings about the dagger that Egwene has, and that’s not even a major weapon in the books. You can not even imagine the number of hours that goes into each person’s weapon. Will the show give a similar focus or will the weapons mostly just be there? Weapons and their individualistic characteristics are integral to particular characters, especially with Mat, Rand, and Perrin. Will there be different styles of swords and heron marked swords? Or will all of them be in katana style? We’re approaching this as an adaptation of the entire series, not just each book individually, so hopefully Season One will feel more like the entire book series of Wheel of Time than it does like Eye of the World. Will Moiraine have a staff at the beginning of the show? When the books came out they felt so blazingly fresh and different and new, so we want that same thing to be true of the show, and if you see us leaning away from certain elements in the books, often times it’s because audiences have now seen them before! Unfortunately sometimes even in cases where the book-to-screen adaptations are from books that cribbed it from WoT! ha How is the set for the Two Rivers designed architecturally? It would seem easy to make it homely and Medieval, but because of it’s location and history, are there any other inspirations coming into play? When it is, I’ll make sure you know it, and it will hopefully feel very uniquely “Wheel of Time” :) The music, how is that related to the show? Did we just get a glimpse of a theme? So, if you see a Borderlander fight with a heron mark blade it may feel different than a Seanchan. We have a fight time and swordmaster on the show who has built a fighting style unique to each weapon and culture. How are the sword forms going to be presented? Is the style going to be pulled from a specific region of sword fighting, or are they going to be spread out over many regions? Check some of them out below, with the questions edited for simplicity: His answers show that he’s an earnest fan of the series. Judkins actually stuck around for a while on Twitter and answered 10 questions from fans about production design, and dropped a few other tidbits along the way. #WOTonPrime /fD4X9n7Ocnīefore you get too excited, showrunner Rafe Judkins confirmed that this isn’t the actual weapon that will be used on set, but we’re getting there.
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