For that first bulky cave suit, he enlisted the help of the legendary Stan Winston Studio, now called Legacy Effects, to make this 90-pound version of the Mark 1 with epoxy armor shells, flexible urethane, leather, and aluminum. 'Iron Man' director Jon Favreau is known for pushing the envelope with his projects like 'The Lion King' and 'The Mandalorian.' But back then, he wasn't confident that CGI could convincingly create a full Iron Man suit. So what better way to make it seem real than by using a real man in a real metal suit? Let's start where Tony Stark's story began: in that cave in 2008's 'Iron Man.' In this scene, Tony Stark is a man in a giant metal suit trying to escape a cave. To get from here to here required a decade of innovation, 10 Marvel movies, and a lot of work on movies with no superhero in sight. Animation tech has evolved in our world, the real world, to make this suit possible on the big screen, something that Marvel couldn't have dreamed of creating just 11 years earlier. Narrator: If you look at Iron Man's first suit, the Mark 1, and compare it to the hero's nanotech suit from 'Avengers: Endgame,' a lot has changed.īut it's not just the technology in the world of the MCU. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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