Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 | Character Designs and Keyframes
When they called me to work on GOTG Vol 1 it was only going to be for 3 weeks but I ended up becoming full time staff artist in the Marvel Studios Visual Development Team for 9 years! In the beginning there were just 6 of us designing all the heroes and villains for the MCU!
It was a fun time that went by in a blink of an eye.
I just wanted to share the work I did that helped shape the MCU. Some of the characters that I was lucky to have designed one of which is Baby Groot ! I am so grateful for the working environment at that time because once you get a character you get to have ownership of it by designing all the other versions for the other films. I will be posting Teen Groot, King Groot, Young Adult Groot in a separate post.
Check out my IG if you can't wait , but just a warning, my IG is not as organized. Also please check out my Youtube channel, I go through my thought process when doing designs. Consider subscribing it will really help my channel grow and hopefully get to the point where I can have more time to post tutorials.
GOTG Vol 1 - The moment Groot had to make a decision to save his friends.
Final Approved Image
Rough sketch of many sketches exploring composition. Would people be interested with the other thumbnails ?
Groot and Rocket say their goodbyes
Final approved image.
Exploring composition of values and making sure they read clearly in black and white first before going into color. I also like zooming out until it is the size of a thumbnail just to see if it's not all black!
The Collector is deep in thought here. Exploring how much technology should be on his head. He is a more serious man here.
The Collector - can you tell which actor I was inspired by?
The Collector - exploring the design of his costume being both regal and a space suit.
Rough Keyframe helps the director visualize the scene's Lighting / composition / character interaction / how much aliens vs. how much humans in the space This also allows me to be part of the discussion and sometimes the scene gets written in the script.
Final approved Orlani creature design
Final approved design but without the flower
Badoon Soldier - hey are like the Storm Troopers of Ronan
This is my octopus alien design. I combined and manipulated a few animal photos to a shape I used as a mask. can you tell what are the 3 animals I used
Another design with Photo textures on the face and exposed skin, while the costume is painted.
Storyboards for when Peter get's picked up by the Ravegers
another one of those keyframes to give an idea the scene in one of the Taverns at "Nowhere"
Why is there a fat lady and a little person you ask? I don't remember, this painting was done in 2013
Kiln uniform exploration
The Broker
The girl that grabbed the infinity stone. I am forgetting her name...
