CBR: Redesigning the "Invincible Iron Man"

[CBR News]

Marvel Studios Character Designer Ryan Meinerding opened up his sketchbook for the new Iron Man armor that just debuted in "Invincible Iron Man" #25 and discussed the process behind redesigning a super hero icon.


Full article here.

[artiepants]

i still just find the design way too busy. the break up gold areas on the forearms and lower legs and the abundance of LEDs/RTs just kill the "flow" for me :(

[Will.S]

i still just find the design way too busy. the break up gold areas on the forearms and lower legs and the abundance of LEDs/RTs just kill the "flow" for me :(

Yeah, what's funny to me is that I liked a lot of the other preliminary designs more than the one they eventually settled on.

They made the armor harder than ever to draw for any artist/colorist and it still shouldn't look that scatter-shot in design. But I'm certainly warming up to it.

[mdg1]

CIVIL WAR!

OK, now that that's out of the way....

I rather like the Kirby meets Baron Karza vibe of some of the designs, specifically the ones with the four RT's in a row.

[PympMyQuinjet]

I want to see McNiven draw it. The way he portrayed Iron Man in Civil War, I think, is absolutely phenomenal. My favorite interpretation of the costume to date. If McNiven can make it look cool, I'm fine with it.

That said, I do think it is a little busy with all its separated plating and glowing doodads.

[trojanrabbit]

I actually prefer the extremis armor...aesthetically speaking, but do look forward to what the new designed armor is capable of.

[theflyingfrogunderdog]

This new design has one major problem...the eye slits. Look at how far they're apart! Tony Stark would have to have a reeaally wide nose for that to work. Looks ridiculous and unrealistic.

[daveageallen]

he just looks at holograms infront of him anyways do the eye slits matter?
or is that just the extremis and movie armor that did that?

[jonwes]

Really loving the new look! I wasn't totally sold when I saw the first small pic but now that we've seen larger ones I'm really liking the sleek aspect of it. I actually did a few concept drawings a while back, thinking of how an Iron Man suit would look if it were "iPod-ized" into something a bit more simple and curvy. None of mine looked as good as this though.

I am still eager to find out what the gold thumbs with the red buttons are!

I will say I really liked the "D2" design as well. Something about the cluster of RT's at the top just really appeals to me. I still wish Larrocca hadn't taken such liberties with the eyes though. I think they are just to big the way he draws them. I think they look perfect in the concept drawings though.

[KJ_81]

I do like the more alien look to the faceplate, pity that didn't translate into the actual final version we see in IIM 25.

And I'm not sold on this suit yet, I like him having a bit of bulk to him, it gives him a nice contrasting silhouette to everyone else, that I think is kinda lost with this new redesign.

But I loved the Extremis armour, and I thought it still had a few more years before it was time for an upgrade. Still, hard to argue if it was Fraction's decision, considering the bang-up job he's done on the book so far.

[HeroxMatt2.0]

The promo's we got of the new armour look great. I think the large eyes of Larroca can be altered in future issues, though. But I really like the colour scheme, and the gold plates may seem a little busy, but overall, I'm really enjoying the design.



That looks brilliant - give the armour to the right artist, and it'll look phenomenal. Like others have mentioned, McNiven draws a good Iron Man, but Larroca's suits of armour look brilliant once fully rendered. Hopefully we'll get some better action shots of the suit later on.

[Roquefort Raider]

i still just find the design way too busy. the break up gold areas on the forearms and lower legs and the abundance of LEDs/RTs just kill the "flow" for me :(

Agreed, agreed and agreed. It'll probably get streamlined after a few months.

I do appreciate how the armor looks like machinery rather than shiny spandex, though. That's one of the features of the extremis armor that was preserved, and I'm grateful for it.

[artiepants]

Marvel Studios Character Designer Ryan Meinerding opened up his sketchbook for the new Iron Man armor that just debuted in "Invincible Iron Man" #25 and discussed the process behind redesigning a super hero icon.


Full article here.

Really loving the new look! I wasn't totally sold when I saw the first small pic but now that we've seen larger ones I'm really liking the sleek aspect of it. I actually did a few concept drawings a while back, thinking of how an Iron Man suit would look if it were "iPod-ized" into something a bit more simple and curvy. None of mine looked as good as this though.

I am still eager to find out what the gold thumbs with the red buttons are!

I will say I really liked the "D2" design as well. Something about the cluster of RT's at the top just really appeals to me. I still wish Larrocca hadn't taken such liberties with the eyes though. I think they are just to big the way he draws them. I think they look perfect in the concept drawings though.

see, now this version has a much stronger silhouette with the 'LEDs' more focused/concentrated and less separation between the gold and Red ares ~ it's maybe 'lacking' in gold, but way better then the final design IMHO.

[Talisman]

I like the new design, but it's too bad it's being drawn by Larocca.

[Frisky Dingo]

I like the new design, but it's too bad it's being drawn by Larocca.

Personally, I think Larocca is fine when he's drawing the armor and robots and other such things. It's his faces and regular people that suffer IMHO.