Amazon Studios has released the original concept art for The Wheel of Time season 1, comparing the sketches side-by-side with the finished scenes. With the show’s inaugural season airing its final episode this past week, the streamer is celebrating what has become one of their most-watched shows of all time. With season 2 already in production, Amazon Studios executive, Vernon Sanders, has also recently stated that he is keen to see the series adapt all 15 novels in the original series, including the prequel book, New Spring, which explores how Lan first met Moiriane and became her Warder.

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Mostly filmed in the Czech Republic, around the city of Prague, production on The Wheel of Time season 1 also took the cast and crew to Croatia to shoot in some of the same locations used for the filming of Game of Thrones. Showcasing some truly stunning visuals, the show’s first season still only revealed just a few of the epic locations featured in Robert Jordan’s sprawling fantasy world made up of diverse nations, cultures, and landscapes. From the borderland city of Fal Dara to the White Tower in Tar Valon, home of the Aes Sedai, season 1 offered fans a feast for the eyes and also hinted at a much wider world still yet to be explored.

Recently, the official Amazon Studios Twitter account shared a series of four sketches revealing the amazing hand-drawn concept art that helped inform the series’ production. Compared side-by-side with the final scenes, the art depicts key moments in season 1, such as the group’s entrance into the cursed city of Shadar Logoth and Egwene being taught to “listen to the wind” by Nynaeve in Emond’s Field. Check out the images below:

While early concept art can sometimes provide a drastically different look to the finished product, it would seem the show’s creative team stuck very closely to the original concepts as the comparison images prove. Of course, there would certainly be a lot more artwork that was developed throughout the first season’s production process, and Amazon may have only chosen to share those few images which most closely matched their final product. Either way, it does bring into sharp relief the enormous amount of pre-production work required on a show with The Wheel of Time’s epic scale.

With season 2 expected to follow the events of The Great Hunt, the second novel in the series, audiences will likely be introduced to much more of Jordan’s world, including Moiriane’s own native country of Cairhien. Meanwhile, the invading Seanchan armies, revealed in the final moments of the season 1 finale, are destined to make their presence felt in the port city of Falme. Fans of The Wheel of Time will undoubtedly be keen to see how Amazon brings these new locations to life on screen.

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Source: Amazon Studios

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