SUBMITTED BY Stephanie

May 2, 2004 — Stop by IGN Filmforce to get a 360 degree look at some of the sets used in Troy thanks to IPIX.

To bring back the ancient city of Troy, director Wolfgang Petersen's go-to man was the fella who built the battleships for Pearl Harbor: production designer Nigel Phelps.

"Nigel had an enormous knowledge about the time, and his first drawings were just beautiful," says Petersen. "He and his team dug themselves into all kinds of books and research material and I was fascinated by what they came up with."

"The initial challenge was to give the film an epic quality," says Phelps. "Wolfgang stressed that he wanted the film to be very believable and realistic. After doing a bit of research I realized that the reality of the period was that everything was actually very small scale. In 1200 BC, the cultures that were prominent were the Mycenaeans and the Egyptians. What I did was combine the art and forms of the Mycenaeans with the grand scale of the Egyptians, in order to come up with a different vocabulary that was both authentic to the period and met the criteria of an epic film."

Click on the link below to view three of the set pieces.