With costumes, the responsibility of making characters a reality falls on the directors and actors. Of course, they also need the help of visual effects masters and makeup magicians to inject personality and characteristics into the characters. For the male and female protagonists Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins, they appear in human form on the screen, so they can perform directly; but they involve a lot of labor.
For those actors who play Martian Saks, the shooting process is much more complicated. For example, William Dafoe played Tas Takas. He is a Martian who is more than three meters tall on the screen, with four hands, which is much higher than John Carter's height. At the shooting scene, Dafoe stepped on stilts to simulate the height of the character. He was wearing a special gray jumpsuit with black dots on his body. The animators captured the movement through those little dots, and then reconstructed his body movements in post-production. Similarly, his face is covered with black spots, and there are cameras on the left and right to capture his facial expressions.
