Stephen Holmes of DEVELOP3D talks with Legacy Effects about bringing the Iron Man exoskeleton alive.

“… We’re doing that three-dimensionally from the beginning, we’re not doing lots of concept art that then needs to be turned into a model or an asset later on, it’s straight into the 3D world. The changes that you make, you’re making to what will become the final asset.

“Because we’ve got experience at sculpting in the real world with clay we just go straight in with ZBrush and design it in there. It’s a quicker end result.”

… Legacy Effects re-invented the way Robert Downey Jr’s chrome plated gauntlets were assembled to maximise movement.

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