I knew the fans would tear me to shreds if something didnt seem like it fit, he says.
The first setting the viewer is introduced to is the vault, with a farming community.
To create the actual scale needed, Cummings needed to put up a volume stage.

A major location outside the vault is Filly, a town made entirely from scrap metal and scavenged materials.
Where some might opt for a CG approach, Cummings says it needed to be real.
Underneath it all is so much steel and engineering, its like 50 feet high.

Lucy (Ella Purnell) entering the town of Filly inFalloutCourtesy of Prime Video
Real-world influences aided Foster as he designed the environments for Reach, a planet housing a large military complex.
Instead, Laws turns to the novels when inspiration is needed.
For us, on the design side, its about depth.
Its all about intensifying the depth of our own language.
However, the layering of depth comes when the human element is brought in.
Now, you have two different pieces working together to make it a very unique visual language.