Over the duration of December members of the “Infinity War” visuals team have been releasing content which they worked on for the movie. Maybe they only just received permission to post their work? Or it has something to do with the release of the art book. Whatever the reason, checking out the works is a good way to tide you over for Avengers: Endgame.
(Related: Robert Downey Jr. just gave a tiny spoiler for ‘Avengers: Endgame’)
First, there’s concept art from Ryan Meinerding that depicts an early look at Thanos. He tweets that the work is simply a concept painting which was slightly experimental. At the point of its creation, Meinerding was still testing out how to incorporate the facial features of Josh Brolin (Thanos, of course) into the design.
Here is where I started figuring out #Thanos' face. These are concept paintings I did in #Photoshop before translating the design into 3d and refining him. The early challenge was seeing how much of Josh Brolin's likeness could drive the design. #InfinityWar pic.twitter.com/aC67viZtuJ
— Ryan Meinerding (@MeinerdingArt) November 30, 2018
Josh Nizzi, an artist from Marvel Studios, recently posted on Instagram an unused costume design for the Sam Wilson, the Falcon. Clicking through the photos also reveals the imagined back of the costume. While the use of the costume for an Avengers movie is pretty low right now, perhaps something of this sort might be used for the rumored Falcon and Winter Soldier show.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrqUepxFYbq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
An early imagining of the confrontation between Doctor Strange and Thanos is revealed in Anthony Francisco’s Instagram. He explains that in the first post, Doctor Strange was “manipulating gas from a nearby star or pulling lava from the center of a planet.” Sometime after this attack, Doctor Strange attempts to contain Thanos as seen in the second post. In retaliation (pictured in the third post), Thanos sends a torrent of ‘comets, asteroids, and chunks of the moon’ down on Doctor Strange.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqz-GCmnH0V/?utm_source=ig_embed
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5fraJn_Qb/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrA3pN7nDdn/
Last is Marvel Studios concept illustrator Rodney Fuentebella’s concept art of the Red Skull as the spectral keeper of the soul stone. The initial designs show him as a much creepier character, “a cloaked religious looking figure.” If you ask me, he kind of looks like a dementor type.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrlPNBfB-Y_/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_loading_state_script
What did you think of these designs? Let us know in the comments!
