Costume Design by Durinda Wood
Two sets of alien costumes were made for this oddball edutainment film made for IMAX theaters. The leader aliens have an open helmet (to allow the actors to say their lines, naturally), with long trailing capes that resemble the wings of insects. The worker aliens meanwhile wear sealed jumpsuits and concealed helmets.According to Wood herself, these alien costumes were constructed out of spandex with acrylic paint slathered on, in order to prevent the spandex springing back (as it is wont to do). Another factor was that the costumes had to be very detailed, as the film would be shown on IMAX screens.
Working with Wood on the costumes was costume supervisor Charmaine Simmons and costume design assistant Abram Waterhouse, who notably was 'co-costume designer' with Robert Blackman on episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Again, I would like to thank Durinda Wood herself for her help in sending me these costume sketches and production photos, and has many more images on her own website's page on the film!