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Wow, I know about the tour in France, but I definitely didn't know it was the actual suit for filming, I thought it was some spare suit use for promotions. So, how many suits are there? Soukoku no Maryu definitely used a real suit except for the Blue Dragon form.

Using digital to visualize work is not uncommon, digital per-visualization is used everywhere even in Hollywood. It can be more useful than ordinary storyboard. Just because he used digital visualization doesn't mean that production team can only use CG after the visualization is done. Then again, in the end, it's the time available for making the actual suit or props that is crucial. Keita Amemiya is just the illustrator and designer not suit maker, IIRC. In film production, if you don't have time to make the deadline, then you have to make do with what is available. I'm studying film production, this kind of things are pretty basic