This year, an unprecedented number of genre and fantasy shows broke into the Emmys race, including “Widow’s Bay,” “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” “It: Welcome to Derry,” “Fallout,” “Spider-Noir” and “Alien: Earth,” which were all recognized across multiple below-the-line categories.
\n\nShows like “AKOTSK,” “Alien: Earth,” “It: Welcome to Derry” and “Fallout” already have an aesthetic that can be adapted from their source material, whether that’s a video game, novel, movie franchise, comic book or series, as well as a passionate fan base. For the production designers and artists behind these shows, already having that established audience served as both a blessing and a curse.
\n\n“Spider-Noir” is based on David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky’s 2009 comic book, but production designer Warren Alan Young says the crew was more focused on presenting Nicolas Cage’s titular character and the surrounding 1930s noir-drenched New York landscape as if audiences were encountering this story for the first time.
\n\nThe show brought an entirely unique approach, with the episodes designed for either black and white or color viewing. For Young, that meant extensive testing to make sure the textures, patterns and wallpaper fabrics on all the sets would pop in both settings, leading the filmmaking…
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