With this popping up at Amazon.fr and Fnac it looks most likely that the artwork will be the same as the U.S. Best Buy and thus WWA:-
That being said I'm not at all a fan of any of the three front artworks that I've seen . . . and disappointed my favouite poster has not been used for a steelbook and only for the collector's edition from France with figurine but without steelbook.
RE: ARTIST RESPONSIBLE - Unsurprising (lol) that the artwork has gone to Ryan Meinerding as he designed the book covers for "The Art of Marvel Studios" . . . and is the Marvel Studios Head of Visual Development . . .
He also wrote "The Art of Iron Man 3" and was an illustrator in "Iron Man", a conceptual illustrator in "Iron Man 2", a visual development supervisor in "Thor", visual development supervisor and the suit developer in "Captain America: The First Avenger", visual development supervisor in "The Avengers", the head of visual development in "Iron Man 3" a visual development supervisor in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", the co-head of visual development in "Guardians of the Galaxy" and the costume Designer for "Daredevil".
Also an illustrator for the comic book adaptation "Cowboys and Aliens" where he worked with Jon Favreau as well as being, among other things, a costume illustrator for the comic book adaptation "Watchmen" (phew!).
As he himself said in an interview apropos a previous project:-
Quote Ryan Meinerding "Charlie Wen, my Co-Visual Development Supervisor, and I manage a small team of great artists that work on character design and key frame art for the Marvel movies. Generally speaking, we are some of the first people brought on board to start creating visuals for the movie. In most cases that means meeting with the director and producers and listening to the direction they want the characters to take, then reading the script to understand the main story needs. From there, we usually delve into the comics to find specific reference. After digesting as much from the comics as possible, we try to figure out distinct variations that combine all of the initiatives and create multiple designs to submit for approval. It really is about finding the tone of the movie and then using a few key images and costumes to communicate that tone."
France . . . Collector's Box (sans steelbook):-
With this popping up at Amazon.fr and Fnac it looks most likely that the artwork will be the same as the U.S. Best Buy and thus WWA:-
That being said I'm not at all a fan of any of the three front artworks that I've seen . . . and disappointed my favouite poster has not been used for a steelbook and only for the collector's edition from France with figurine but without steelbook.
RE: ARTIST RESPONSIBLE - Unsurprising (lol) that the artwork has gone to Ryan Meinerding as he designed the book covers for "The Art of Marvel Studios" . . . and is the Marvel Studios Head of Visual Development . . .
He also wrote "The Art of Iron Man 3" and was an illustrator in "Iron Man", a conceptual illustrator in "Iron Man 2", a visual development supervisor in "Thor", visual development supervisor and the suit developer in "Captain America: The First Avenger", visual development supervisor in "The Avengers", the head of visual development in "Iron Man 3" a visual development supervisor in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", the co-head of visual development in "Guardians of the Galaxy" and the costume Designer for "Daredevil".
Also an illustrator for the comic book adaptation "Cowboys and Aliens" where he worked with Jon Favreau as well as being, among other things, a costume illustrator for the comic book adaptation "Watchmen" (phew!).
As he himself said in an interview apropos a previous project:-
Quote Ryan Meinerding "Charlie Wen, my Co-Visual Development Supervisor, and I manage a small team of great artists that work on character design and key frame art for the Marvel movies. Generally speaking, we are some of the first people brought on board to start creating visuals for the movie. In most cases that means meeting with the director and producers and listening to the direction they want the characters to take, then reading the script to understand the main story needs. From there, we usually delve into the comics to find specific reference. After digesting as much from the comics as possible, we try to figure out distinct variations that combine all of the initiatives and create multiple designs to submit for approval. It really is about finding the tone of the movie and then using a few key images and costumes to communicate that tone."
France . . . Collector's Box (sans steelbook):-
With this popping up at Amazon.fr and Fnac it looks most likely that the artwork will be the same as the U.S. Best Buy and thus WWA:-
Half of those images are of Hot Toys' 1/6 scale figureYes, apart from the laid-back Spidey poster (which really speaks to me about "homecoming" . . . after months away at boarding school back in the day I always remember how nice it was to come home, eat good food and chill out (lol).
Other similarly interesting, fun or just simply better (imo) poster images for the steelbook front would include one of these:-
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Ooh I like that. Any pics of inside art?
Starting to warm to this . . . and ordered.
Liking this a lot more now we can see the back. If HMV don't use this art I may have to cancel my Zavvi order and get this from one of the EU Amazons
Starting to warm to this . . . and ordered.
