The costume sketches were adhered to for the final design of the mysterious aliens, which come in two different versions - the leaders (I assume) have an open helmet, with long trailing capes that resemble the wings of insects, with the workers being in sealed jumpsuits and concealed helmets. The aliens in general have a very insect-like look, with the organic helmets and the iridescent material of the costumes, which according to Wood, were constructed out of spandex which had acrylic paint slathered on, in order to prevent the spandex springing back (as it is wont to do). These costumes were partly brought to the screen (and required to be have an impeccable level of detail thanks in part to being shown on IMAX) thanks to the costume supervisor Charmaine Simmons (who had a long career, notable working on the famous sitcom Seinfield), and assisting Wood was costume design assistant Abram Waterhouse, who notably had also been 'co-costume designer' with Robert Blackman on various episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
