Editing Men in Black (1997 film) (section)

===Design and visual effects===
Production designer [[Bo Welch]] designed the MIB headquarters with a 1960s tone in mind, because that was when their organization was formed. He cited influences from Finnish architect [[Eero Saarinen]], who designed a terminal at [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]]. As the arrival point of aliens on Earth, Welch felt the headquarters had to resemble an airport.<ref name=hughes/>

[[Rick Baker (makeup artist)|Rick Baker]] was approached to provide the prosthetic and animatronic aliens, many of whom would have more otherworldly designs instead of looking humanoid. For example, the reveal of Gentle Rosenberg's Arquillian nature went from a man with a light under his neck's skin to a small alien hidden inside a human head. Baker would describe ''Men in Black'' as the most complex production in his career, "requiring more sketches than all my previous movies together".<ref name=met/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://movieweb.com/exclusive-rick-baker-talks-the-aliens-of-men-in-black-3/ | title=Rick Baker Talks the Aliens of Men in Black 3 &#91;Exclusive&#93; | date=May 22, 2012 | access-date=January 27, 2023 | archive-date=January 27, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127010205/https://movieweb.com/exclusive-rick-baker-talks-the-aliens-of-men-in-black-3/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/30/15905704/men-in-black-20th-anniversary-mark-setrakian-creature-effects | title=Roboticist Mark Setrakian on Men in Black's 20th anniversary: 'It's almost a perfect movie' | date=June 30, 2017}}</ref> Baker had to have approval from both Sonnenfeld and Spielberg: "It was like, 'Steven likes the head on this one and Barry really likes the body on this one, so why don't you do a mix and match?' And I'd say, because it wouldn't make any sense". Sonnenfeld also changed a lot of the film's aesthetic during pre-production: "I started out saying aliens shouldn't be what humans perceive them to be. Why do they need eyes? So Rick did these great designs, and I'd say, 'That's great — but how do we know where he's looking?' I ended up where everyone else did, only I took three months."<ref>{{cite magazine | author = Steve Daly | title = Men in Black: How'd they do that? | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = 1997-07-18 | url = https://ew.com/article/1997/07/18/behind-scenes-men-black/ | access-date = 2007-09-17 | archive-date = 2007-10-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071014234555/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,288677,00.html | url-status = live}}</ref> The maquettes built by Baker's team were later digitized by [[Industrial Light & Magic]], which was responsible for the visual effects and computer-generated imagery, for more mobile digital versions of the aliens.<ref name=met/>