Go behind the scenes of ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ and ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ and how the costume and visual effects teams developed spectacular underwater worlds.
“If you are asked to do a movie and they say there’s water, hang up,” jokes costume designer Ruth E. Carter, who had a steep learning curve for creating the underwater kingdom of Talokan. With the aquatic scenes filmed both on land and underwater, Carter often had to create multiple versions of the sea dwellers’ costumes.
One of the most challenging costumes to adapt was M’Baku’s, which is made of fur, leather, and a large grass skirt. Every day was a lesson, says Carter. “As much as you thought you knew about water, there was so much more to learn.”When James Cameron moved the central characters of his long-awaited sequel from the trees to the seas, it meant creating an entirely new look for the Metkayina reef-people clan. Costume designer Deborah L.
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