◗ Electric Hero Top: Moore explains his invention to a news reporter (Kevin Otto). Bottom: Blomkamp observes a scene with Otto and Jackman. 40 April 2015 American Cinematographer and everybody's happy." As to the larger-than-life characters of the human variety, the brazenly confrontational Ninja and the pale, ethereal Visser called for an especially vivid color palette, which was coordinated with production designer Jules Cook and costume designer Diana Cilliers. And whereas the look of the majority of the sets leans toward the realistic, the art department got decidedly more flamboyant with Die Antwoord's lair. The location was an abandoned Soweto power station - which tragically collapsed five months after the crew filmed there, the result of scavengers' stripping metal from its main support - in which the fictionalized rappers have carved out a section. It is there that Wilson activates Chappie and where the droid learns to speak, read, paint and fight. The walls were decorated with blacklight paint and enhanced with neon-yellow and pink