Details on HUDs from movie

[salmastryon.livejournal.com]

My brother came across this on Reddit and linked it to me knowing how much of an Iron Man fan I am as well how much of a geek I am for Technology. One of the people who worked on the Iron Man HUDs posted stills of it as well as close ups of what it would look like from Tony's viewpoint and some breakdowns on what it all means. I want the DVD to come out now so I can pause and see if I can catch some of the changes.

Here's a picture of one of the Stills from Tony's viewpoint.



The detailed blow ups of the display are too large to link her and I'm too lazy to shrink em right now. I love the amount of detail and thought put in it all and wow can Tony Multi-task with that much info for him to parse.

Here's the link to the page: Avengers - jayse
You'll have to scroll past the heli-carrier consoles to see the Iron Man HUDs. At the very bottom the person who posted up the page wrote:

"This is just an image dump of marvel approved stills and screenshots of my work on the film. I'll do a proper post soon - this is a fraction of the work - But I had the distinct pleasure of working with Cantina Creative, leading the design of the glass screens for the Helicarier in the Avengers. I also led the design and animation of the all new and upgraded Mark VII Hud.
All work was done in Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4d.

Included are some partial explanations of how the HUD diagnostic functions
Variations of it in 'all clear' mode, and a 'battle mode', after the suit has suffered damage and new windows have popped up to show depleted weapon stores and hazardous environmentals and general.

The flight menu was designed with input from an A-10 Fighter Pilot. I like to keep my stuff accurate.

I start all designs on paper so I included some ideas for the dock icons. In the final icons, the more detailed versions show system status based on the way they animate.

Avengers TM & © 2012 Marvel and Subs

More soon."

I'm very much looking forward to the more soon :P

Edited: Put the picture under a spoiler cut.

Comments

[tabaqui]

This is too cool for school. Thanks for the link!

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

1) Techporn
2) Amazingly beautiful close-ups of RDJ's face

Can I nominate this for post of the year? Thank you so much for that link!

[devildoll.livejournal.com]

Very cool! Thanks so much for the heads up! (HA!)

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Thank you so much for posting. I've shared with all my multimedia geek friends.

[radiophile.livejournal.com]

This is INCREDIBLE holy crap. Thanks for sharing! ♥

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

This is excellent! Love the hi-res pics too (which will shortly become iPhone/iPad wallpaper!

[salmastryon.livejournal.com]

oo wallpaper. What a great idea!

[kikainausagi.livejournal.com]

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing that link. You are magical.

[muccamukk]

Mod Hat: Would you mind cutting this as the image is large and also a potential spoiler.

User hat: That's really cool information. I find posts like this incredibly helpful for fic writing purposes.

[salmastryon.livejournal.com]

Oops. Fixed I think?

*sighs* I purposely picked a smaller image that didn't show the snake thing or the helicarrier. Of course now that you pointed it out I realize the one I picked was of the nuke at the end. *facepalm* Should of gone with the spoiler cut right from beginning. sorry :/

[undomielregina]

I'm in awe of how the suit HUD is both really information-rich and extremely at-a-glance accessible for the user. That's extremely difficult to accomplish. I used to design my own UIs when playing WoW, which obviously has much simpler information requirements, and it was still a challenge to get everything on the screen in a format where it could be monitored when most of my attention was elsewhere.

[salmastryon.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean for simuliar reason. I was thinking last night as I was raiding how much he must keep track of while multitasking. I start having issues if I'm tanking some fights keeping track of what everyone else should be doing.

Is it sad, that I'm planning on taking this when the DVDs come out and see what mode he's got the suit in through the fight sequences? :)

[undomielregina]

I was a tank too, actually, so I think we have much the same experience. I almost put in a bit about how he's tracking a lot more information than I could ever keep up with, because damn that's a lot of data, even if most of it is in "ignore until problem" mode. The more I see of his current suits, the more I really want a rogue-Jarvis sentient armor movie. I'd love to see what Tony has to do when he doesn't have an AI to help him monitor.

Not sad at all! I love pouring over movies for the small details like that.

[salmastryon.livejournal.com]

What makes it really amazing is how much he's tracking even without Jarvis' help. Just wow he's got a sexy brain. It reminds me a bit of this one fic were he was all upset at his R&D department for a palne design that was imposible to fly. Soem one siad You could fly it and he's like sure I could and Rhodney if he's had some training and maybe a few others.

I really didn't think much of it at the time but taking in context with this It really drives home about stuff. It makes me respect Rhodney more as well that he flies War Machine without Jarvis. Admittedly it is suppose to be simplier than Iron Man and definitely the Mark VII which is what the pictures of the HUD is. But, still wow!

[secretpianist.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for posting! The designs are so beautiful. You could spend ages just looking at all the detail.

[ykoriana.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely amazing. Thank you!