About Anthony

Anthony Francisco is a Senior Staff member in the Marvel Studios Visual Development Department, he helps with designing the Heroes and Villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Dubbed as the Visual Father of Baby Groot he has also designed iconic characters like the Dora Milaje, Okoye and Nakia, Loki for Thor Ragnarok , Tazerface and Teen Groot to name a few. He has helped shape movies like Avengers Infinity War when he came up with dropping pieces of the moon on Doctor Strange in his battle with Thanos! Other Marvel Films include, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1,2,3 ; Ant-man , Ant-man and the Wasp , Ant-man QuantumMania ; Black Panther 1&2 ; Captain Marvel 1&2, Doctor Strange , Avengers: Infinity War and End Game , Wanda Vision, Thor:Ragnarok, Thor:Love and Thunder, Black Widow and Shang-Chi.

In the beginning of his 20 year career as a concept artist, he has worked for effects houses like Stan Winston Studios, Rick Baker, ADI, Harlow FX, Steve Johnson, and Captive Audience gave Anthony the opportunity to work on movies like Superman Returns, A.I., Men in Black 2, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, Alien VS Predator, Species 3, The Passion of the Christ, and Chronicles of Riddick. From 2004-2006 he worked as a concept artist at NCsoft Santa Monica on the Guild Wars and Tabula Rasa MMO titles. Following his time at NCsoft, Anthony joined the team at Offset Software as the lead concept/story artist to work on a fantasy based FPS game. In 2011 he worked at Rhythm and Hues on Hunger Games, RIPD and Seventh Son. Anthony also did illustration work for Magic: The Gathering and has been an instructor at Gnomon School for Visual Effects, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Concept Design Academy and CGMW online.