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Check Out Some of Jock's Early Concept Art for Ava in 'Ex Machina'

by Alex Billington
April 7, 2015
Source: CBR

"Isn't it strange, to create something that hates you?" With the US release of Alex Garland's new sci-fi Ex Machina just around the corner (on April 10th - go see it!), there's no better time to feature some concept art that appeared earlier in the year (thanks to io9 + CBR). Jock, a famous comic book artist/illustrator, did some concept art work for Garland's Ex Machina when it was in development, helping envision the main robot character Ava played by Alicia Vikander in the film. He tweeted out some of these images in January, and we're just seeing them but it's perfect timing as the film hits theaters here soon. That means everyone finally gets a chance to have their mind opened by the sci-fi fun of Ex Machina (here's my review).

Here's the concept art which was first posted on Jock's Twitter @jock4twenty, but was also posted to CBR.

Thanks again to io9 for the tip on these images, which are very interesting to see in contrast to the final Ava:

Click above to see the Ex Machina trailer where that shot is from. The film finally opens in the US this week.

Ex Machina is written and directed by Alex Garland (writer of Dredd, Sunshine, 28 Days Later). Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a 24 year old coder at the world’s largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl (Alicia Vikander). The film will be released in the US starting April 10th, later this week. Read Alex's glowing review, and see the sci-fi film playing in theaters very soon.

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