Ed French on Piccolo
Dragonball Film has exciting new details on the aesthetics of Piccolo, as revealed by the make-up artist Ed French! Ed also posted our first look at Piccolo’s costume on his official website, which you can see below!

Edward French, the special makeup effects artist of the Dragonball Movie (please visit his website here), has very very kindly accepted to answer to my questions…Thank you!
” I can say that it was a 4 hour make-up job that I applied many times over a month and a half, and that 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.
[...] Publicity pictures were taken for advertising and i’m sure they will release them soon.”
Thanks again for the answer…and the picture!
Oh yeah, mine is the best. Avenged Sevenfold Baby!!!
Sean, Son Goku Is WAY COOLER!! <—– DBZ PUN!
So do we have to have an account to have an avatar?
vegeto all the way baby!!!!!!!!!
@K-Mart: Your an idiot lol. My avatar’s power level is, OVER 9,000!!! Son Goku = -2
@J: Yes
My avatar’s powerlevel = 9001
my avatars power level all gains a point level when someone says that theres a point higher than mine.lol
@jacksterson: That’s Cheating lol.
@dk318: LOL, that cracked me up too
Hey adam, this is Eazye5150
Sorry for making a new account o___o;
But yeah I’m with this one now.
@Adam: alright, awesome. Check out my avatar everyone. Nice avatar, Tommy.
This has been an excited month for Dragonball
I can’t wait until what next month holds in store for us all!!!! Maybe will finally get a poster….
@zanny: Here is a link to picture of King Piccolo in his cape.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj52/kame789/OldPiccolo.jpg
James Marsters outfit still looks 10x better J
@J:
I finally saw a few episodes with King Piccolo and that red cape u were talkin about, thx to that dude bob.
But still.. the outfit for the movie is ALOT better.. Black evil lookin suit kills that red cape, no offense to the anime tho, but this is a live action movie, and I want somethin that screams out to the audience “RUNNN!!!”
@http://www.myspace.com/coreywilson10: Have you ever seen that episode where King Piccolo fought Goku when he was still old? He looked kind of like Kami but he was so creepy-looking at the same time. I don’t know how to describe it. He lost that creepiness when he became young again, though.
Thanks J, I like yours too. But is my avatar showing up as the vegeta one? Cause on my computer I still see kid goku.
@Tommy: It shows up, try clearing your cache.
yep i was 8 the first time i saw dragon ball i thought it was ok until i saw dbz in 94 then that made it the shit!-i accept brolli jay.-anyways im 27.-i have a japanese guy that works with me whos 33 and he has some awesome collectibles he brought in we get crap ass toys here!!!
-anyways what i was wanting to finish saying is i hope goku atleast shoots a blast through king piccolos chest or stomach and maybe that cuts him in half at the end and we see him spit out the piccolo jr. egg???-cause lets face it chatwins way to big to head but through masters chest!-lol!!!!!-i actually said chatwins too big!!!!!!!!!-lmao!-well never hear that again!
Sorry Adam, but what is that? And how do I do it?
This is the first time I didn’t vote!
I don’t like the new voting poll question Adam!!!!
It’s stupid!!!! Why you put that bro? That sounds like something J would say!
I wouldn’t change nothing about the cast or crew in Dragonball the movie, because I haven’t seen a teasor yet. We can’t say anything about the cast and crew yet. There hasn’t been a teasor or a trailor yet!! So how can we make that judgement?
Calm down Corey, I’ll add another option ;P
Sorry dude, but that new poll question is going to make everyone who voted look dumb, because what if James Wong turns out to be an amazing director for Dragonball? What if Chatwin makes an excellent Goku? What if Fox Studio’s makes Dragonball a masterpiece.
I have faith they will!! That’s why im so anticapated to see the movie…. Putting that question up is only going to make people have doubts.
anyways , this is my last comment for this one -i see his outfit looking just like a darth maul/x-men with hakama ninja pants-red eyes and lite olive green skin-that is my prediction lets see if im right?-i wanna see new goku pics that new one of him in gi in background the front of the hair looked awesome just like gokus but still too grainy to get good look!-i bet his hair is short like the school pics then he trains with roshi and he lets it all grow out to its full saiyan length and it looks exactly like gokus then!-thats gotta be it!-oh whats with stunt man wearing blue pants?
and for the person who voted to cancel the entire movie
Why are you in here if you want the movie to be canceled????
Dragonball hasn’t offended nobody yet!!!! There is no need to cancel the movie or boycott it.
Fox
the cast
the crew
the director
haven’t said or done nothing offensive yet!!
Dragonball is going to rock hard!!!! We got James Marsters and 2 hot Dragonball websites!! Don’t hate, because Dragonball is the best cartoon ever.
I’m ChiChi, COrey? WTF?!
Fine!!!! You can be Bulma
Well i have mixed reactions about this film. I used to love the serious as a kid, and now i’m older i actually went back and started watching it again when i heard about the movie and stuff and now realize how much adult content is in the anime which is cool. but as far as this goes, makeup and CGI can go a long way haha just look at everything in the movies! and FOX is doing this, so you know it will look good.
about more movies after, based on what i’ve read about the plot of this film, they can end in one of several ways.
1. after the battle, king piccolos dead, done. they can start any sequel at any other saga.
2. after the battle, king piccolos dead, but at the very end they show the egg of piccolo jr., which would imply a sequel, which would most likely start off with goku training at Kami’s lookout, and incorporate the world martial arts tournament with goku vs. piccolo jr., possibly even extending as far as showing goku and chichi with like a baby gohan or something, which would leave a third film open for the start of DBZ, which i think if they did it correctly and had about a 2 hour film, they could do from the start of DBZ to the end of the frieza saga. i know it’s a lot,
3. after the battle, king piccolos dead, show the egg, goku training at kamis, end with news of the next world martial arts tournament. leaving the sequel to pick up at the tournament, including that battle with goku vs piccolo jr, and then go all the way up to before anyone blasts off to namek, haveing the entire frieza ordeal on namek a third movie, and maybe ending that one with back on earth, showing just trunks’ boots or something looking over a mountain at frieza’s ship landing on earth or something that would be cool, which would then lead it to a fourth film of the android saga and cell saga. i think they’d stop after cell cause that would be 3 or 4 films depending on how they cut it up, and the cell saga was the most popular out of all. i think they pretty much have to do the cell saga if they ever venture into DBZ territory, but who knows, this film could also be a one shot deal lol.
@nick: Good ideas. You should post them in the latest post, since this is a fairly old one and probably not many people will see it.
maybe, just maybe, the armor isn’t green because piccolo has never worn green armor
First of all cool outfit, i can’t be mad at that. But the fact still remains that goku is in HS? Wtf man, the Ku man was the reason some of my friends thought you can be a great person and not finish school(there were great people in history that did great things with 5th grade education or less). Also where is krillan. Childhood friend. Training partner. It’s like having a street fighter movie with ryu without ken. So not cool. Well america did it again. Took something not american and tried to put there own little spin on it. Why dont they keep to what they do best with projects they are done with and kill everyone off (Xman 3). I cry for Akira Toriyama. I write this not to be mad about little changes like costume and height. I write this because of gross over sights (missing key characters).
ps the chick that plays mia may be hot but the character mia i feel is not needed without pilaf.