The Official: Adi Granov Thread

[Advanced Dark]

Big influence on what to expect from Favreau in Iron Man.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=29540157

http://myspace-683.vo.llnwd.net/00470/38/61/470711683_l.jpg

[RAMORE]

For those who might not know his work.

Here is granov's website:

http://www.sofos.com/adi/

Hopefully this is the ironman we get to see:

http://www.sofos.com/adi/illustration/imco01.jpg

http://www.sofos.com/adi/illustration/imco02.jpg

http://www.sofos.com/adi/illustration/imco03.jpg

http://www.sofos.com/adi/illustration/imco04.jpg

http://www.sofos.com/adi/illustration/imco05.jpg

http://www.sofos.com/adi/illustration/imco06.jpg

http://www.sofos.com/adi/illustration/imco09.jpg

[Hunter Rider]

Big influence on what to expect from Favreau in Iron Man.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=29540157

http://myspace-683.vo.llnwd.net/00470/38/61/470711683_l.jpgI love his work,i hope Fav uses his armour desgin:up:
Have you got a large solo pic of his Crimson Dynamo ?

[Socrates]

Granov has some pretty amazing Iron Man art. :up:

[Casius--J]

Yeah this is the armour i was hopin they'd use in the film. In my opinion it would work the best on screen most of the other variations.

[RAMORE]

I love his work,i hope Fav uses his armour desgin:up:
Have you got a large solo pic of his Crimson Dynamo ?


no crimson dynamo:( sorry just got those off his site

[GNR]

Anyone read his recent blog?

He mentioned something special taking place at the Con in San Diego that he cannot talk about.

Probably has to do with the film.

[Advanced Dark]

Anyone read his recent blog?

He mentioned something special taking place at the Con in San Diego that he cannot talk about.

Probably has to do with the film.


Thanks for the heads up. You should scoop it to The Hype. It should make the front page.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

San Diego Comic Con


Once again the con season is upon us. This year I am attending only the San Diego Comic Con for three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I don't have a schedule yet because I am there mostly for fun and to meet with friends and colleagues, but I will do a couple of signings and events. I will most definitelly do a signing and hopefully sketching at the Marvel booth. I am also supposed to make an appearance of some kind at the Sideshow Collectibles booth in light of their release of the Iron Man statue based on my work. There will also be something quite special on one of the days that I can't talk about yet but it's very exciting...

San Diego is only a part of our week in Cali, the rest of which we'll be in LA. I am very much looking forward to it as it will be a much needed (working) vacation for us.

Hopefully the Iron Man: Extremis hard cover will be out by then (it's scheduled for July) so I actually have something to show for myself.

[RAMORE]

cool maybe thats what favreau was talking about^ :up:

[Advanced Dark]

Adi Granov Collector Interview

http://www.sideshowtoy.com/behindtheshow/?p=1666

[JubJub BONKS]

isnt Myspace illegal

[Darthphere]

Adi Granov single handedly reinvigorated the Iron Man comcis. You can hold me to this.

[GNR]

isnt Myspace illegal

Hahaha.

I'm glad to hear that Adi is the concept/character designer for the film.

[Advanced Dark]

Adi Granov single handedly reinvigorated the Iron Man comcis. You can hold me to this.

Agreed.

[Yellow Cyclone]

i hope they go through 3+ armors for the film

old-school, solid gold/sliver one-piece armor

then maybe the modular armor, and/or the mark VI or even some stealth modifications

and finally the uber-awesomness that is granov's armor for the final, or maybe it's something tony was developing for the sequel

[Dr.Dude]

You just can't beat Granov's Iron Man --- he takes all the cheesy stylistic details of past armors and molds it all into something that looks and feels real, while still being very clearly Iron Man.... I'd almost go so far as to say he's already become the definitive shellhead artist. :o

At one point I was leaning towards them taking an Ultimate approach to the armor.... till Granov showed up. It'd be absolutley insane not to take a cue from his work, honestly, especially as far as armor design.

[IronMan_2005]

You just can't beat Granov's Iron Man --- he takes all the cheesy stylistic details of past armors and molds it all into something that looks and feels real, while still being very clearly Iron Man.... I'd almost go so far as to say he's already become the definitive shellhead artist. :o

At one point I was leaning towards them taking an Ultimate approach to the armor.... till Granov showed up. It'd be absolutley insane not to take a cue from his work, honestly, especially as far as armor design.

I fully agree, back when the 'Notebook' director was supposed to direct this film, I would always wonder how they were going to pull off the Iron Man armor for the movie without going the bulky Ultimate look.

[Spider - Man]

I like Granov's IM design all except one thing: the boots. I wish the thigh pieces were gold. Those thigh high looking boots look like a woman superhero's style boots, ala Storm. Other than that, all very real-world, most readily translatable to the liveaction big screen.

[Ironman24]

You just can't beat Granov's Iron Man --- he takes all the cheesy stylistic details of past armors and molds it all into something that looks and feels real, while still being very clearly Iron Man.... I'd almost go so far as to say he's already become the definitive shellhead artist. :o

At one point I was leaning towards them taking an Ultimate approach to the armor.... till Granov showed up. It'd be absolutley insane not to take a cue from his work, honestly, especially as far as armor design.

I agree with you completely, Granov's work on Iron Man has been the best run in the titles 40+ year history and its appropraite that he is doing the character design for the film.

[str8raz0r]

Granov's armor design has the sort of "texture" to it that filmmakers go nuts for. Little "unnecessary" details like the lines in the solid gold sections of the thighs give texture to the character that can be needed, especially in the harsh lighting of a set.

However, I can't help but wonder if the pentagonal "light" on the chest might draw unfounded Superman comparisons to the non-comic initiated?

[kedrell]

It would be easy enough to make it a circle and keep the rest as is.

[Ironman24]

Granov's armor design has the sort of "texture" to it that filmmakers go nuts for. Little "unnecessary" details like the lines in the solid gold sections of the thighs give texture to the character that can be needed, especially in the harsh lighting of a set.

However, I can't help but wonder if the pentagonal "light" on the chest might draw unfounded Superman comparisons to the non-comic initiated?

I believe Jon addressed that very question about the chest, saying he preferred the circle on the chest, more classic.

[ThatOneGuy]

He also said the triangular one was cooler looking, though.

[RAMORE]

You just can't beat Granov's Iron Man --- he takes all the cheesy stylistic details of past armors and molds it all into something that looks and feels real, while still being very clearly Iron Man.... I'd almost go so far as to say he's already become the definitive shellhead artist. :o




I have to agree also:up:

[Advanced Dark]

Agreed as well. His style is wonderfully lethal! :)

[hippie_hunter]

Seriously Marvel just stick with this design:

http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2006/news/07/26/ironman_screen001.jpg


Have armors such as these:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/ToS39.jpg/394px-ToS39.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4f/UltimateIronMan.jpg/400px-UltimateIronMan.jpg

be examples of failed armors but let the one showed at Comic-Con be the main and most successful one.

[Advanced Dark]

http://c.myspace.com/Groups/00015/07/30/15880370_l.jpg

[Yellow Cyclone]

dos equis eh?

:woot:

[FVD]

Did I read a while back that Stan Winston is gonna build Iron Man's armour?

[Advanced Dark]

I hope so.

[WTFwuzThT]

Good grief this keeps getting better and better.

[brightstar]

I'm pretty excited because Adi has given me permission to use some
of his artwork to do a new layout for jon-favreau.net. =) So yeah, if
I can stop being a slowass, there will soon be an Iron Man-themed
layout for the site. Thought it would be cool since this is a biggie for
Jon. =)

-Nezee
http://www.jon-favreau.net/Images/msbanner.gif (http://www.jon-favreau.net)

Brightstar's Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/brightstarlet)

[sideline]

nice! :)

[x-fan]

i wish this movie had come out before civil wars started i know alot of people that had come to dislike ironman alot since then

[FVD]

Big influence on what to expect from Favreau in Iron Man.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=29540157

http://myspace-683.vo.llnwd.net/00470/38/61/470711683_l.jpg

That pic of Nick Fury makes it look like Bruce Willis could play a believable Nick Fury if not Mickey Rourke.

[Advanced Dark]

Hey...here's your official invite. :) You know who you are. :)

[Adi Granov]

Yes, yes, I get the hint ;). Hi.

[Advanced Dark]

Hey Adi thanks for accepting the invite. As you can tell we all love your work, and it was cool for some of us (including me) to briefly meet you at the comicon. Still haven't framed my poster though but I will.

[Lightning Strykez!]

Schweet! :eek::up:

[Advanced Dark]

Oh almost forgot:

WELCOME TO THE HYPE!!!

Can you tell us your experience on what it was like to be involved in such a big production like Iron Man??? It's gotta be flattering to be able to see your designs on such a high profile movie with Robert Downey Jr basically wearing your armor and Favreau directing him. Wow!

[Adi Granov]

Thanks guys.

AD, as you can imagine, it's been a fantastic experience. It's not entirely different from other design work I've done, just on a bigger scale. Although, surprisingly, I've had a lot of freedom on Iron Man, much more so than on a lot of lesser jobs I've done. Which has just made it so much more enjoyable. I think Jon and I understood where we were coming from from the very start so it's ever since felt like we're on the same team as opposed pulling in opposite directions. I am extremely proud of the work we've done so far. The entire art team is extremely talented so it was largely a very painless process. Just a bunch of people with a lot of mutual respect coming up with ideas and solutions to make the movie look as good as possible.

I am very very excited to see how it all translates to the finished product.

[CAH]

Welcome Adi.

Great to have you on the Hype! And way to go on that IM artwork!!! It's looking fantastic!

Hope to talk more with you later,

CAH

[Advanced Dark]

I would think this would open up some new opportunities for you as far as doing conceptual art for more motion pictures down the road. Gives you a bigger stage to show off your stuff. Would you ever let that type of work replace what you do now or do you want to keep it balanced?

[Mister Sinister]

So now we've Adi Granov, Mark Steven Johnson and Louis Leterrier.

I love the Hype :D

[brightstar]

Just wanted to say thanks again for letting me borrow some of your images for jon-favreau.net, Adi. Sorry that the main Iron Man was edited and isn't quite as awesome now that I've removed him from the chick that was in front of him. ;P (It was difficult rebuilding the missing parts!) I think it looks great for the site though and I've had messages from others that agree. So, thank you.

Good luck with this project. I'm sure it will end up looking great. =)

-Nezee

http://www.jon-favreau.net/Images/msbanner.gif (http://www.jon-favreau.net)

Brightstar's Myspace ( http://www.myspace.com/brightstarlet)

[Advanced Dark]

^ Nice Brightstar...nice. Forgot to say that here. :)

[Advanced Dark]

http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2007/06/04/combining-traditional-digital-adi-granov/

[TheBeastWithin]

Granov is a genius. He re-invented the Iron Man armor for a new generation as well as a feature film and continues to draw the most mind-blowing covers I've seen in years. He's the new Alex Ross. Hail Granov!

[Casius--J]

http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2007/06/04/combining-traditional-digital-adi-granov/

Sweet christmas i'm going to be using this tutorial!!

[Advanced Dark]

From Screenrant:

http://screenrant.com/images/triple-granov-pose2.jpg

http://screenrant.com/images/triple-granov-pose2.jpg

New design in the middle.

[Retroman]

Heres one scene from the Comic Con (http://kungfurodeo.com/2007/07/29/sdcc-07-comic-con-exclusive-iron-man-clip-reel/) footage that looks like a copy of a cover Granov did for Iron Man #11.

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1762/ironmancomicconjetstz1.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4194/ironman11cam7.jpg

[Advanced Dark]

You can see just how raw that footage is too. Imagine what another 8-9 months of post production and CGI will do for that sequence.

[Retroman]

You can see just how raw that footage is too. Imagine what another 8-9 months of post production and CGI will do for that sequence.
Indeed.

[TheBeastWithin]

From Screenrant:

http://screenrant.com/images/triple-granov-pose2.jpg

http://screenrant.com/images/triple-granov-pose2.jpg

New design in the middle.
The only guy that could improve Granov is Granov :) Awesome.

[Savage]

Yeah, I like how streamlined it is, which actually makes the armor look even more menacing.