Concept art reveals Megamind could have looked like Galactus

Megamind , Will Ferrell ’s loveable supervillain , to begin with await like Galactus , uprooter of worlds , as raw concept art reveals . A new volume , The Art of Megamind , includes tons of other prowess , show killer mecha , strange henchmen , and random supervillains . Check it out .

The Art of Megamind , written by San Jose Metro picture critic Richard Von Busack , gives some pretty great perceptivity into the creative unconscious process behind this film , and it ’ll sum a sight to your appreciation of the picture . You get to see a lot more of the visual influence that the film - Divine went through , admit loads and loads of comics stuff and nonsense , but also classic Warner Bros. animation — there ’s a fate of Wyle E. Coyote in the supervillain Megamind ’s deathtraps for his arch - nemesis Metro Man . At the same meter , you hear how the motion picture - Jehovah endeavour to avoid making a movie that only appealed to superhero comics fans , or that was too full of superhero in - antic — this is very much a bid on the classic wedge / villain competition that goes back to Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty , as well as Superman and Lex Luthor . ( Comics fans may in reality be annoyed by the number of citation from the flick ’s creators say they were n’t into comics and did n’t desire to aim this motion picture at the mirthful - book geek audience . )

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There ’s tons and tons more gorgeous conception graphics in the book .

In addition to showcasing the way in which the robots , mecha , costumes and eccentric evolved throughout the originative process , The Art of Megamind also shows all the thought that went into the story - telling of this movie . You acquire how the reference of Megamind ( first call Mastermind and then Oobermind ) evolve , including giving him a human secret personal identity and a tormented romanticism with the plucky newsperson , Roxanne . There ’s the whole spin on nature vs. raising , with the fact that both Megamind and the cheesy superhero Metro Man both add up to Earth as baby — but Megamind crashed in a prison house , while Metro Man landed at a mansion . Also , it turns out that Megamind enjoy sparring with Metro Man — who turn out to desire to quit the hoagy biz because there ’s no challenge in it any more , wounding Megamind ’s ego .

And the environs of the film also get a mess of elucidation , include Metro City , which gets flesh out in tons and tons of concept graphics . As City Development Supervisor ( that ’s a genuine title ! ) Jonathan Gibbs says , you postulate to have a sense that Metro City is a real place that the characters are fight back over . “ We ’d never work up a whole urban center before , ” says Gibbs . Fans of alternate New Yorks and retro - futuristic metropolis - scapes will apprize all the concept artistic creation of the skyline and item-by-item buildings in the book . It work out the designer used a piece of software called Edi — brusque for edifice — to generate no less than 70,000 construction for the flick . You also get to see an divertingly blue - looking slum area , under a freeway flyover , where one character lives .

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All in all , you get a real sense for how much attending to point die into this film . And Megamind emerges as a alike effort to Dreamworks ’ Monsters Vs . Aliens : lavishly designed , full of cute pop - civilisation in - jape , and bursting with good will and the message that freaks are people too . It ’s not go to get too thick with its flake references , and it ’s not going to get as clever as a Pixar flick would , but it ’s good , firm merriment . And the Holy Writ about the making of the moving picture reveals more bed and dimensions of the fun — you ’ll get a kicking out of seeing all the wacky construct they came up with for this film .

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