Colossus

When cameras began rolling on Deadpool, then still a risky R-rated superhero bet on 20th Century Fox's part, fans were curious to see how closely the film would be tied to the X-Men universe. We got our answer pretty quickly in the form of cast additions Negasonic Teenage Warhead and, most strikingly, Colossus. But with this new, entirely CG iteration of Colossus in Deadpool, how exactly was the character brought to life?

Piotr "Peter" Rasputin was born on a Soviet collective farm called the Ust-Ordynski Collective near Lake Baikal in Siberia. He lived there with his mother Alexandra, father Nikolai, and sister, Illyana. His older brother, Mikhail, had been a Russian cosmonaut and had apparently died in a rocket accident (the 2006 comic mini-series Colossus: Bloodline established that the family was descended from a real-life historical figure Grigori Rasputin).

Piotr Rasputin is a Russian mutant who possesses the ability to transform his body into organic steel, giving him immense strength and durability. Colossus is among the physically strongest X-Men, and is a talented artist.

This is a gisted profile offering an overview of the character rather than digging into a specific take or era.Colossus was one of the "All-New, All-Different X-Men" introduced in 1975 to replace the old version of the team - which had long since run out of steam.

Want to know what happens after the scenes are shot? How they make those characters that seem so lifelike? Here is a good website that shows what the men behind Colossus did to make him look like and act like a man.

UNLIKE MOST CGI characters created using motion capture, Colossus is shiny. Like, Studio-54-disco-ball shiny. His skin is also super reflective, meaning that to look real light needs to bounce off of him just like it would if he was an actual mirror standing in each scene.