This is an unused Captain America suit design from the Marvel movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The art was shared in the new book, Marvel Studios: The Art of Ryan Meinerding.
Ryan Meinerding is Character Designer, Creative Director, and Marvel Studios Head of Visual Development and this updated version of Steve Rogers’ suit from is a mix of Caps suit from The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve Rogers wore his “Stealth Suit” from the comics before donning his old WWII gear.
An excerpt from the book reads: “When Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s producer Nate Moore told Ryan Meinerding they wanted to give Steve Rogers the super soldier ‘Stealth Suit’ from the Marvel comics (designed by Marko Djurdjevic), the artist was excited-but also worried. ‘It’s a cool costume, but it doesn’t have a cowl or helmet, and I knew we could improve on the helmet from Marvel’s The Avengers,’ says Meinerding.”
“Kevin Feige agreed that it needed a redesign. ‘That was the biggest challenge for me. I was supremely motivated to get the helmet right.’ In the first presentation meeting, Meinerding’s suit design-from the neck down-was approved.
“But there was originally an additional Cap costume for the film. Meinerding shares, ‘The back view [opposite, bottom right] was for an alternate suit that was cut from that movie.
“When Cap came back from the Lemurian Star mission and was in the Triskelion, he was gonna have this updated Avengers suit. So originally, he was not in the stealth suit at all times.'”
I like the design! You can check it out below.
