The Walking Dead Prison Diorama: A Case Study in Creative Collaboration with AI

A client asked us to recreate The Walking Dead prison — a set we’d never studied, from a show we’d never watched. With no blueprints, no fandom bias, and nothing but a grainy aerial photo, we built the compound in 1:12 scale. Human instinct and AI precision worked in sync to map, cost, and design every element — proving that expertise isn’t always the starting point, but process always is.