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MCU Fan Show - Marvel Studios commentary

#64 Marvel Studios Visual Development Concept Illustrator Anthony Francisco

MCU Fan Show - Marvel Studios commentary

Sean Gerber

Tv & Film

4.5912 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Marvel Studios Visual Development Concept Illustrator Anthony Francisco talks about designing the Dora Milaje for Black Panther. He shares his influences and insight into his experience working on the film. He also discusses much more about working at Marvel Studios and bringing characters from the pages of the comics to the big screen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marvel Studios News. My name is Sean Gerbert. This is episode 64 of our show and we are taking a slight detour from our road to infinity war

0:09.4

although I think this really still counts as the Road to Infinity War.

0:13.2

So we're not talking about Winter Soldier in this episode.

0:15.3

That episode is coming up.

0:16.9

For this episode, we actually have an interview

0:20.1

with Anthony Francisco, and that's probably a name that some of you are familiar with.

0:24.4

If you don't know who that is, Anthony Francisco is a concept artist within Marvel Studios

0:29.7

Visual Development Department.

0:32.4

So Marvel Studios Visual Development Department, They're the ones creating the art.

0:36.0

They're designing the characters and also doing keyframes which are setting up some of the big shots, the big moments within these Marvel movies.

0:44.3

Anthony's art is amazing.

0:45.9

It's always impressed me when I buy these art of books and I've been fortunate enough

0:50.0

to get to know him just a little bit as I've just gone into signings for these books so that he could just sign my book and I could just fan boy out.

0:57.0

So I recently sat down with Anthony who actually designed most recently for Black Panther, at most recently terms of what we've seen in theaters

1:05.6

He designed the look of the Dora Malagee for Deny Garira and Florence Kasumba and the other actresses who were playing the Dora in Marvel Studios Black Panther.

1:15.5

So what you see there for Okoye and I.O and everybody else that was Anthony's design.

1:21.3

That was then taken by costume designer Ruth E. Carter and Director Ryan

1:25.2

Cougler and brought to life brought on to put on the big screen for all of us to

1:29.8

see. So in this conversation you'll hear Anthony talk about designing the door Malage, his influences,

1:36.0

also working in conjunction with Marvel Studios head of visual development, Ryan Meinerding and Director

1:42.2

Ryan Kugler as they were creating this look.

1:45.1

And then you'll also hear Anthony talk about some of the other work that he's done with

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