Ryan Meinerding Talks THE AVENGERS, Designing Captain America's Uniform And More!

Nice! Meinerding is a great artist.

Amazing Talent, Amazing Response

Can we see dragon scales on the suit next time? :/

that team artwork in the background is Amazing.

I really dont get how Marvel cant release an official poster like that

:(

Captain America's Uniform sucks!

Cap's suit is okay.

dang, it sounds like he knows Cap's outfit sucks. that's a damn shame.

james... thats iron monger...

Well, there he said it... No ears on Cap... bastard

have to say the helmet does suck, expect the costume

but i think the helmet probably would look better in film

I don't think Cap's costume will be distracting in the film. But regardless, the costume design team failed miserably.

And it has nothing to do with Cap's ears, people. It's simple color distribution. Specifically, there's 3 areas where they blew it.

1) Cap's arms. Your eyes automatically go to the white of his upper arms instead of cool tones of the blue. So you automatically look at the inside of his arm, which makes the arm seem smaller and less intimidating. This is a shame on so many levels, not the very least because Evans busted his butt to get a great physique for the character and they diminish it with a mistake so simple and unnecessary.

2) Cap's neck. Cap's ears aren't exposed in TFA and yet his helmet looks awesome. Why? Simple: His neck is exposed. Much like I pointed out above, the contrasting flesh tones balance out the head being slightly larger. What helps this even more is the chin strap that's brown, because this is even more of a ''cool'' color tone than blue. Thus, the flesh tones stand out even more compared to the two cooler tones around it and make his lower mouth and neck seem bigger. In Avengers, the bulbous helmet is just enhanced by the distribution of slightly darker blue around it.

3) Cap's belt. It's size greatly diminishes everything around it since it's so massive and the contrasting red and white are too small to combat it. Thus Cap's abdomen/torso are reduced to almost emaciated proportions. The blue doesn't help either, because it blends his legs into his body and gives the appearance of a individual who's wearing his belt far too high.

Whatever, just my two cents. Design is all in the purpose. If they wanted to make Cap look small, they succeeded brilliantly. The fact that Evans still looks like a born leader is a testament to his physical acting ability.

He's great at what he does.

@MrAnonymous due Cap will have ears exposed in The Avengers! look at the trailer! the mask hanging in that box ! is the one he has attached on to his back when talking to tony stark in the trailer is this one...



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Just to be clear, I am honestly fantastically happy if you disagree with me and love the suit. Seriously. I wish everyone loved the suit.

I think the ears exposed looks just fine, but I think he looks better without anything on his head.

@ELgUaSoN



and he has this mask ......


By null at 2012-02-29

in this pic u posted its off but its there hanging like a hoodie .........

@GUNSMITH dude its looks like that daredevil mask look at the mask i posted its in the trailer ppl OPEN YOUR EYES

@GUNSMITH no dude i posted the helmet with the material on this neck and i posted the mask cowl sisde by side theyre different material the mask on the left cant be the one under the helmet theyre diff colors and material look at it

I love the suit, I dont see whats the big complaints are about I mean really, the guy looks like captain America to me! what else do ya want?

@Sanderman Yes i think so too and i prefer the cowl just look at how much better it looks.....

I don't mind the ears being covered, I just wish they weren't covered w/ a octagonal cup thing that disturbs overall sleekness of the head gear. I'm glad it still is a helmet, but there is nothing else about the suit that makes him warrior like or alluding to him being a soldier, he just looks like a football mascot. I really need to see him in motion more, we haven't really seen Cap in action yet.

In his new clothes, the Cap. looks too thin. Funny, because in his movie, his clothes made ​​him strong.

@ELgUaSoN and @Cartoon22
He looks MUCH bigger and more badass in that pic where he's holding his belt. If you look at any clips from trailers, he's definitely more bulky in the scenes where he's at the SHIELD base. (clips of him in the first The Avengers teaser from C.A The First Avenger and the other trailers when he's speaking to Stark.) He's much bigger in any scenes that look like they're in the SHIELD base.
Hmm maybe Chris Evans lost a lot of weight doing a lot of tiring work filming the big action sequence in the city. He has said before that it's difficult for him to keep weight on, just like me. Bulking up is difficult for both of us, usually people who are tall and naturally thin guys. Endomorphs I believe is the correct term.

The reason he didn't feel confident is because the reporter told him that the fans were not responding well to it and you can tell he felt bad about that. Most of the issue that he tried to explain away was the helmet.

If you remove Cap's helmet from his uniform I think it works really well.

@RainbowRaider

You mention that the white is distracting, but that should work in his favor because white adds size and it is over his biceps. I believe this will be effective with movie lighting.

Also you said that the brown strap 'is even more of a ''cool'' color tone than blue'. Brown is a warm color, being in the red family. I don't think this has anything to do with color, but the break up from the cowl. There are ways of making a cowl look cool, but I have yet to see one where the helmet is that shape.

His belt also works in his favor. Having a belt of that size makes his waist look smaller. This gives the torso a strong 'v' shape. If you were to look at body builders, this is the exact shape they are trying to achieve.

Now in my opinion the uniform will work well on screne. If I were to change a couple things, it would be to shave the helmet down to not add girth, and leave the boots less bulky. Everything else works just fine.

Here's more pROOF THAT marvel has messed up before!!

IRON MAN 2 THE PICS OF THE MARK VI that fans were seeing in concept art had iron man w/ Gold Biceps & Gold fron thighs...here are set pics & actual concept art from the film BEFORE THEY HAD A SWITCHEROO


DOWN HERE'S THE SCENE AT THE STARK EXPO...NOTICE THE GOLD BICEPS



NOWWW....WHAT WE GOT INSTEAD WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT SUIT MEANING THE BICEPS & FRON THISGHS GOT A NEW SLIVER/GREY/METAL COLORING... LIKE THIS



SEE?!?!? A MINOR CHANGE DURING PRODUCTION!! Cartoon22, that's all Cap's suit got, A MINOR CHANGE IN PRODUCTION...ONLY THING IS THEY DIDNT KNOW THAT COVERING EARS OR CHANGING ONE SPOT OF COLOR ON A SUIT MAKES A DIFF...BUT, AS WE;VE SEEN IN THESE RANTS SO FAR, IT DOES