Official concept art is our window into theMarvelmultiverse.
Not all of it makes it to the final cut.
Some, likethese alternate costume optionsforPaul Rudd’s Ant-Man, end up on the cutting room floor.
Ryan Meinderding’s concept art for a now-deleted ‘Avengers: Endgame’ scene with Smart Hulk, excerpted from ‘Marvel Studios: The Art of Ryan Meinderding’.(C) 2024 Marvel Studios
But together they are a living archive of what could’ve been.
I worked with Ian Joyner on Smark Hulk’s face."
Want more movie news?
Designs for Throg in ‘Loki’ and Steve Rogers in ‘What If…?,’ excerpted from ‘Marvel Studios: The Art of Ryan Meinerding’.(C) 2024 Marvel Studios
We also see early designs for white Vision, played byPaul BettanyinWandaVision.
When this white Vision was repurposed forWandaVision, the older design didn’t quite fit.
“He doesn’t look villainous enough,” Meinerding says in the book of that early design.
Designs for white Vision and ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ from ‘Marvel Studios: The Art of Ryan Meinerding’.(C) 2024 Marvel Studios
“He needed to have been affected by more human technology via S.W.O.R.D., too.
Phil Saunders did a wonderful job landing the right kind of white Vision for WandaVision.”
Meinerding will also sit with authors Bennett and Terry fora New York Comic Con panelthis Sunday, Oct. 20.
Cover art for ‘Marvel Studios: The Art of Ryan Meinerding’.(C) 2024 Marvel Studios
