No playing paddy cake with this bad dude! Super villain Crossbones possesses some pretty killer punchy-hands that retract and do major damage. To achieve these great effects we fabricated his costume using a modular system of interchangeable parts that could be inserted or removed allowing the VFX department to comp together what they needed to achieve the ultimate visual effect.
In addition to the highly detailed rigid costume pieces, we created in parallel highly detailed soft pieces suited for stunt scenes using newly developed technologies thereby saving the pretty face of Chris Evans, aka Captain America himself, during the fight scenes. configurations to achieve the desired visual effect.
This costume was so badass, it literally transformed the actor Frank Grillo seemingly through a means of possession. As soon as he put it on, he morphed into the comic book character and began unabatedly moving and thrashing about emboldened by the costume’s look and comfortable feel. Take a look at this clip from an interview with Frank.