Mark Scruton, production designer for Netflix's 'Wednesday', has revealed that the viral stained glass window from the show is actually digital art. In an interview, Scruton explained that the window, which appears in Wednesday and Enid's dorm room at Nevermore Academy, was created using digital techniques rather than traditional stained glass.
Scruton said he deliberately avoided watching previous adaptations of 'The Addams Family', instead drawing inspiration from the original Charles Addams cartoons. 'With Tim [Burton], visually, he's very pared back,' Scruton noted, emphasising that nothing in the frame is wasted.
The dorm room was designed as a split between Wednesday's black-and-white aesthetic and Enid's colourful personality. 'We wanted to split it — a black-and-white side and a colourful side — but we couldn't get our heads around how that happens without it being incongruous,' Scruton said. 'The idea became that Enid has done it herself.'
The window, shaped like a spider web, features a 'rainbow-textured explosion' painted by Enid on one half. Scruton explained that the stained glass effect was achieved digitally to maintain the hallowed, church-like quality while allowing for cohesion with Wednesday's goth sensibilities.
Other design elements include a shrunken head referencing 'Beetlejuice' in Principal Weems' office, which Scruton said was based on a prop Tim Burton owned but could not ship internationally. The production also preserved thousands of autumn leaves in drying rooms to maintain continuity during the Romanian winter.
