The beauty of concept art is that it'due south the road non taken. Despite being discarded past directors and producers before a movie starts production, once they're revealed to the public, they tend to capture the imagination of fans who experience information technology could accept been better. That'southward certainly true of Thor: Ragnarok.

The 2017 smash-hit reinvigorated the graphic symbol and brought a bright splash of color - and Kirby - to the MCU. It could accept been even more than and so. Hither are 10 Thor: Ragnarok concept art pictures you lot take to see.

10 Kirby Armor

Thor gets a makeover in the motion picture, moving him away from the Norse god look he'd been rocking for a number of films. This piece of concept art reveals the strong visual influence of Jack Kirby on this picture. The telltale Incan lines Kirby employed and then often in his work emerge here on the left arm of Thor.

While the final film produced an armor a trivial less visually decorated, the influence of Kirby was everywhere in the motion-picture show, particularly on the world of Sakaar and its inhabitants.

9 Valkyrie Variation

Before Tessa Thompson was cast in the part of Valkyrie, the concept artists imagined different women in the office. This piece of art features a slightly more punk version of the grapheme. Here Valkyrie looks a footling like Natalie Dormer, who played the cunning merely ultimately ill-fated Queen Margaery on Game of Thrones. Trivial of this particular look would manifest in the final film, save perhaps the blue trim, which did end up as the lining of Valkyrie'south armor from the terminal battle.

viii Sakaarian Centurion

Valkyrie's armor took a couple of dissimilar roads to get to the final film version. These concept designs, developed with Tessa Thompson in heed for the role, evidence a heavy Roman centurion influence. The blackness version is close to her standard Scrapper 142 armor in the movie, without the ornate gold helmet of grade. The white armor is pretty close to her final Valkyrie armor with its white and gold elements only loses the silver Medieval influence entirely.

7 Ride of the Valkyries

Valkyrie is the only survivor of an entire order of Valkyries, all of whom perished at the easily of the film'due south villain, Hela. This moody concept art showcases them assembling for their fateful battle with her in the film.

This version is much more than bird-like in blueprint, with a frilly helmet and semi-hanging sleeves. Information technology's also much more Medieval than what ultimately ended up on the screen. The extra imagined in this piece of concept art is hard to make out only doesn't look also different from Emily Blunt.

6 Tim Burton Loki

In this fantastic concept piece by artist Aleksi Briclot, Thor's brother and perpetual pain-in-the-behind Loki'south classic horned helm is exaggerated into something that wouldn't be out of place in a Tim Burton moving picture. Combined with the night background, Loki would be right at home in the worlds of Beetlejuice or Edward Scissorhands. This version seems to go for the more Norse interpretation of the grapheme, perhaps before his role or the colorful, more Kirby-inspired tone of the film was figured out.

5 Sakaarian Colour

That color truly comes alive in this piece of fine art depicting the Sakaarian capital city. Reds, blues, yellows, and oranges all collide into a vibrant, vivid mural that underscores how alien the planet is. Prior to this, MCU films had been adequately muted in the colour palette. Major splashes of color tended to be reserved for the costumes of the principal heroes. One time the MCU films started to exist filmed digitally equally opposed to on pic, the color grading tended to dilute the final event. Not so with this film.

iv Interview With The Grandmaster

This early on take on the character of the Grandmaster, who would ultimately be played past the bubbly Jeff Goldblum, depicts the character every bit almost vampiric in nature. The scarlet eyes and the white puffs of hair teased out into horns remember the frightening appearance of Gary Oldman in the Francis Ford Coppola directed Bram Stoker's Dracula. Thor: Ragnarok ultimately went in the consummate opposite direction with the character, casting Goldblum and making the Grandmaster a funny, if slightly evil, despot.

iii Hela Aye

This concept version of the villain Hela, who was revealed to be Thor and Loki'due south long-exiled sister, is much more menacing than the final version. The bones elements of the costume are there, including the green uniform and Kirby-archetype black headdress.

Except in this art, the headdress is much more organic, and maybe only a little fleck like the symbiote associated with Venom in how it looks and behaves. The headdress she wore in the film morphed, only this more conflicting, oozy, and frightening.

ii Hairy Blob

Blob goes through quite the transformation in Thor: Ragnarok. The creative squad experimented with that existence reflected in his appearance also in this piece of concept art, the artists imagined a Hulk who let his hair and beard grow out later taking over the shop from Bruce Banner. After being absent-minded for a few films afterwards the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hulk reappears on Sakaar. His primary change in the final film is the armor and body paint he wears as the champion of the gladiatorial arena.

one Gladiators

These concept illustrations by concept creative person Andy Park showcase how visually diverse the flick ultimately became. Park presents a gallery of the picture show'south conflicting gladiators in a constabulary line-upwardly like formation. The Kirby influences are certainly at that place, as are some hints of Star Wars. The color, clashing and contrasting visual styles, and gonzo-weirdness of the motion-picture show are all on display. A number of the final versions of the film's gladiatorial contingent, including the unforgettable duo of Meek and Korg, are visible in the complete set of illustrations, which tin be viewed hither.

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Darby Harn is a contributor for Screenrant, CBR.com, Star Wars News Net, and Film News Net. His sci-fi superhero novel EVER THE HERO debuted in January. His short fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Interzone, Shimmer, and other venues.

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