Costumes

Costum design is from Mayes C.Rubeo, Costume Designers Guild Awards nominated in 2003. He has made costumes of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, and he's creating those of James Cameron's Avatar.

Eduardo Castro, Betty costume designer, winner of three CDG awards and three times nominated at the Emmy Awards,has designed two superheros costumes for Dragonball.
 

Sangoku (Justin Chatwin): Sangoku, in his High School period,will dress black pants and an orange sweat.

Concerning hairs, Justin Chatwin won't have any wig. And his hair are more and more longer, as you can see on the photo below. 

















Piccolo (James Marsters): The most waited character! The only official information is from James Marsters. He says Piccolo is bald, green, with pointed ears. 

According to unoffical witnesses, Piccolo won't have turban, et will have a rocky skin. Some rumors say that branches will be added digitally. Different witnesses says that his costume and his allure are a total success.

Mai (Eriko Tamura): We have the witness of Martial Arts Tournament extras: Mai dressed a leather black dress with small red patterns. She was very very hot! Some people says that the Jamie Chung in red dress photo above is, in fact, a Mai photo (I think the same).

Bulma: All we know is that she will have, according to the newspaper Reforma, a flashy wig. Certainly blue. But we have seen her stunt double in some pics (I'm not allowed to publish them), and she hasn't got blue hairs. She has  a high horsetail with a long fringe, brown hair,  small fitting jacket and trousers, always with a gun at the waist or thigh, and boots (king of Lara Croft look).

Yamcha: In some photos, you could see Joon Park (Yamcha) with wicks platinum blond wicks. But according to those present  at the shooting, these photos were taken before her makeup and hairdressing, and during the film, it would have much hair brown.

Tortue Géniale: Far from the sunglasses guy with hawaian shirts: large brown pants and dirty light brown sweat.

Gohan

: Surprise! No news

Small roles and extras: There is a pic of Texas Battle, who plays a not very nice guy of Goku's High School.

About extras, we have pics, from El Siglo de Durango (15 january), with very flashy costumes! And we can see the famous orange costume of Master Roshi School.
At the end of the page, you can find a video of 300 making of.  You can see the difference of how the costumes look like before and after visual effetcs. Studio Hybride is in charge of Dragonball Visual Effetcs, and have donne those of 300.


 
 















Visual effects: This is tranform shot image during post production.
- Pré-visualisation: The aim is to achieve a kind of 3D skeletons for complex scenes with stuntmen and special effects.
Here is an example of sophisticated pre-viz : Superman Returns

Two studios are in charge of it:

Image Engine (Mr Magorium)
Ollin Studio (Zodiac)

- Visual effects supervisor: the aim is to lead and coordiante all the teams working on visual effects.
Hybride (300, Sin City) is in charge of it.
Under there are two videos: a sneak peek of 300 (Hybride has done visual effects of this movie), and a part of the making-of 300. It allows to have a good vision of the work realized by Hybride studio.

Special effects

Special make-up effects
Two great artists have worked on the special makeup effects of this movie, especially on the Piccolo make-up.
Ed French (two Emmy Awards, two Make-Up artist guild awards), has done the main part of the movie. You can under his work in others movies.

Ed French has very kindly accepted to speak to this website about James Marsters make-up:
" I can say that it was a 4 hour make-up that I applied many times over a month and a half andthat James Marsters was a very pleasant and professional actor to work with.  In fact, I enjoyed working with him more than any actor I've applied prosthetic make-up to.   He was very patient and enthusastic about playing the role and I admired his work. "
 


Bart Mixon, (Hellboy, Fantastic Four, Men In Black...) has done the special effects makeup in the last weeks of the shooting.




Creature designer
The creature designer is Alex Tuis. He has designed Piccolo and an other creature. You can discover his universe on his website: Alex Tuis Conception and Design