 Two months of pre @-@ production were required to create hundreds of shields , spears , and swords , some of which were recycled from Troy and Alexander . Creatures were designed by Jordu Schell , and an animatronic wolf and thirteen animatronic horses were created . The actors trained alongside the stuntmen , and even Snyder joined in . Upwards of 600 costumes were created for the film , as well as extensive prosthetics for various characters and the corpses of Persian soldiers . Shaun Smith and Mark Rappaport worked hand in hand with Snyder in pre @-@ production to design the look of the individual characters , and to produce the prosthetic makeup effects , props , weapons and dummy bodies required for the production . 
