Thor: Ragnarok doesn’t look quite like any other Marvel film, which is a point of pride for costume designer Mayes Rubeo. Her otherworldly designs are at once psychedelic and medieval, old Norse and scrappy steampunk, fantasy goth and ’80s punk. For Rubeo, however, the film has one clear influence: Jack Kirby, the Marvel comic book artist and writer who co-created the character Thor in 1962. Director Taika Waititi used Kirby’s illustrations as a reference point for the whole film but particularly for the character Hela (the villain played by Cate Blanchett) and the scenes set on the planet Sakaar, where Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) are imprisoned and forced into a gladiator-style fight. While this is Rubeo’s first Marvel film, the Mexican-born costume designer has carved out a specialty in films with a heavy motion-capture presence, including Avatar, World War Z, and Warcraft: The Beginning. Her process involves creating physical versions of all the costumes for the actors to try on — and, yes, that includes the giant antlered headpiece worn by Blanchett. Yahoo Entertainment spoke with Rubeo about designing the world of Thor: Ragnarok and adapting Tony Stark’s ’80s-tastic wardrobe to (barely) fit Ruffalo.

View photos Chris Hemsworth as Thor in Thor: Ragnarok. (Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Marvel Studios) More

Yahoo Entertainment: When you and director Taika Waititi first talked about the look of Thor: Ragnarok, what inspirations came up?

Mayes Rubeo: It is so lucky, having the most creative director that is actually a real artist. He told us all to look at Jack Kirby. The look of the movie is an homage to Jack Kirby, because he was an excellent artist and one of the most important comic book artists and creators of all times. We don’t feel he’s ever been given enough credit for the body of work that he created for the comic book world, especially in the Marvel universe.

View photos Thor and Hela on the cover of The Mighty Thor No. 150, a source for Thor: Ragnaork. (Image: Marvel Comics) More

So we knew what Asgard looks like, and we kept it sort of the same. I designed many costumes for that part of the movie, and it was lots of fun. But the main dish here is Sakaar. Sakaar was made with a brand-new design that we inherited from Jack Kirby, which is a world of geometrics and dimensions of layers, trapezoids and rhomboids and half-circles and different lines and very, very bright colors. And because Taika had that so well imprinted in his brain, he was able to guide us all throughout the creative process of getting all these costumes together.

View photos Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster and Tom Hiddleston as Loki on the planet Sakaar in Thor: Ragnarok. (Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Marvel Studios) More