Showing posts with label James Oxford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Oxford. Show all posts

Friday, April 27, 2012

Dress Like A Mutant With Oxford's 'X2: X-Men United' Concept Designs

X is for X-Men 
If you've always admired the X-Men's fashion sense, then these images are for you.
One of  the artists on the film X2: X-Men United (2003) was James Oxford  (Jurassic Park 2, Wild, Wild, West, Men in Black) and he posted some of his designs for the X-Men. I'm not sure if he was the costume designer or just worked off the costume designs to be honest.

Official Synopsis:
X-Men 2 (or "X2" as it is called in the movie) picks up shortly after the first film. Wolverine continues his quest to learn about his past, but he has little luck finding anything. Rogue has also formed a romantic relationship with her fellow classmate Bobby Drake, aka Iceman.
Meanwhile, the President is attacked in the White House by a teleporting rogue mutant. This prompts a public outcry against mutants and authorization of action against them by the President. Stryker, a special operations military official, pushes the President to allow him to attack Charles Xavier's school for mutants. Believing it is a training ground for secret mutant operations (which it is), the President authorizes the operation. Little does he know that Stryker controls the mind of the rogue mutant, named Nightcrawler, and he has his own reasons for wanting to attack the X-Men's school. Stryker also happens to hold the key to Wolverine's past.
When the school is attacked, it's up to Wolverine and the children to defend themselves alone. As our mutant heroes are sent their separate ways into hiding, Stryker also captures Professor Xavier. To make matters worse, Jean Grey has begun to lose control of her powers and exhibit incredible new abilities. As the X-Men face their darkest hour, their only hope may lie with their former enemies, Magneto and Mystique.
I love the alternate costumes for Storm.
Ororo "Storm" Munroe (Halle Berry)





Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner (Alan Cummings)
 



Logan "Wolverine" (Hugh Jackman)


Yuriko "Lady Deathstrike" Oyama (Kelly Hu)

James Oxford's portfolio is available for you to view at jamesoxford.com.
Via World of Black Heroes

What do you think of the illustrations? Any mutants you'd like to dress like?



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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

All the 'X-Men 2' Concept Art You Can Handle

I've featured a handful of X-Men movie concept art before, but my man Neil has taken all the concept art from X Men 2 and put them in one colossus-sized blog post at All Things X.

Not only that, but if you've ever wondered who made Magneto's plastic prison cell look so cool or who made Lady Deathstrike cooler than the movie read on.

I'm throwing some samples up, but if you want to see over forty illustrations by over four different designers head over to his blog now!
Phenomenal image of Magneto floating out of his plastic prison.

The inside of the X-Men jet Blackbird
 
Lady Deathstrike kind of looks like Marilyn Manson

 
Nightcrawler
Stryker's son in a wheelchair
 
Artists
Production Designer was Guy Hendrix Dyas http://www.guyhendrixdyas.com/

What do you think of the concept art?