James Gunn: "Yesterday during the Facebook Q&A I was asked about my biggest influence on Guardians of the Galaxy. Certainly one of the biggest ones is the science fiction artist Chris Foss, both in his unusual designs for spaceships, buildings, and robots, and his unapologetic use of color (especially yellow). I even brought up Chris's work to the Marvel guys when I first pitched myself as director. And they liked his stuff so much we actually hired him to come onto the film and help design spaceships."
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After seeing several images of his works online, I had added Chris Foss's art book in my Amazon wishlist few years ago. But never got around to getting it, I need to rectify that soon. I am glad Gunn hired him to design the spaceships, his colorful influence really shows and bodes well.