
Read the Full StoryThe Marvel Studios Visual Development team has reinvented the role concept art plays in the creation of blockbuster movies. They are not freelancers providing a few paintings and then hoping for the best when they see the movie a few years later. They collaborate with directors, producers, executives, costume designers, and even actors to excite moviegoers with comic-book-faithful costumes that look amazing and function perfectly on screen.
Marvel Studios Director of Visual Development Andy Park walked Marvel Studios News through the process of designing Evangeline Lilly’s costume for Ant-Man and the Wasp. A promise was made in the first film’s “It’s about damn time” mid-credits scene and it was Park’s job to help make good on it. It took a lot of work, and thousands of frequent flyer miles, but the final design delivered.