 The cave sequences were filmed on the cave standing sets on stage 18 of Paramount Studios.The sets were limited, so Burton said that in order to make it look like the characters were moving through a complex labyrinth of caves, he and director of photography Jonathan West used the sets' depth to make them look like different parts of the caves.The precipice that Kor nearly falls down was created by filming the actors on the second level of the cave sets and then matting the footage onto a long miniature version of the cave that Gary Hutzel created out of aluminium foil.