Check out the IRON MAN HUD Montage

Fantastic! There's nearly 2 minutes in total of screen time purely in the IRON MAN HUD! The beautifully crafted, heavily detailed designs were created by the super talented Jayse Hansen.

It is sooo cool that a designer was allocated to purely focus on the HUD design. The detail that he went through is amazing, to put so much research into something is inspiring. As Jayse put it "I basically taught myself how to fly using whatever I could find: books, videos and flight simulators"

It was really interesting to hear that designing for stereo (3D) meant that everything was in focus and clearly readable. Great for effect but unfortunately that meant he had to make sure everything on the screen had a function and could not simply be decoration. You could argue that this was a good thing as it meant the designs had purpose and would be more authentic. It'd also push the design to make sure everything was properly considered.

Just check out the breakdown on Jayse Hansen's site. The detail is truly inspiring.

My favourite things about the IRON MAN HUD: 1. How the elements animate on different layers in 3D, sexy! 2. All the circular reticles, and when they expand and come in from different depths 3. When the HUD swipes around to switch to 'battle mode'. AWESOME!

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