BK: Designing these group photos takes an inordinate amount of work for something that shows up on-screen once, momentarily, often not even at full frame. So in this case, we recycled an old background of Ty Lee’s circus from Avatar.

MD: After we showed this photo at San Diego Comic-Con, there was some speculation that Zaheer is the one in the photo holding Su. It’s an interesting theory, but that was never our intent. Su’s circus background was part of her eclectic history, showing how she was trying to find herself before she built Zaofu. Besides, that guy holding Su is about a foot taller than Zaheer!

Circus photo design by Christie Tseng. Character tones by Sylvia Filcak-Blackwolf.