The Boroughs by Jerad S. Marantz #3

Thor: Love and Thunder - Gorr Concept by Jerad Marantz

MCU

jsmarantz Working on #cyborg was a huge honor. I’ve always loved the character and thought that this take on him for #justiceleague was really cool. The design was based around #apokolips technology, so it wasn’t going to be clean tech. Figuring out how to do that in #zbrush was a real challenge. I got pretty close in the first pass, but I had to spend a lot of time refining the design. Originally I wanted to hold on to a lot of the football player shapes and went a bit bulky with it. Then when I realized that we wanted to show that his body was completely destroyed I started slimming him down. I was really proud of the visual connection to the apokolips armor of #darksied and #steppenwolf. I came up with a fast solution for the faceted large metal pieces. I quickly sculpted them and then decimated the pieces multiple times to get that planer diamond cut effect. When justice league came out it was disappointing that we lost the second set arms. That idea really sold how alien the technology was and was one of the more unique elements to this #cyborg. So glad we got it back! I loved Ray Fisher’s portrayal of the character. So sad and stoic. When working on a concept, you know that no matter how cool the Art turns out if there isn’t an incredible performance behind it it just won’t work. Fisher was amazing! It still amazes me we got the directors cut. So much work, I never thought I see it on screen. It was incredible to see the original vision.

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Jerad Marantz

“For these concepts, I was going more warlord, so not as much a hands-on fighter,“ Marantz says. “I imagined him commanding the Children of Thanos. They did his bidding, and then when he actually had to step in, pieces of his armor would come undone and he’d have something that he could run around in more easily underneath. The goal was always to make him more aggresive, and those elements show up in the original helmet that Charlie [Wen] had designed, and so I just raised them to make it appear like he had horns -basically to give him a demonic quality.“