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Production version of the statue body compared to the prototype. I think it's astonishing how realistic it looks considering it's sculpted. Let's hope the production portrait has been tweaked to make this a real treasure!

Yes I am. I'm sending them to Daniel Na who is hopefully forwarding them onto the art director as Daniel himself isn't able to instruct any changes. I've sent all of them to JND so I sincerely hope they they look at what I've edited constructively and hopefully agree with all of us who think the...

Here's my modified head on the overall statue.

I've sent it to Daniel at JND but would be great if someone can put that last photo onto their facebook page (I don't have a facebook account) so other collectors can see how such a relatively small change can totally make the portrait into a win!

Here's one more attempt that I've made to try and show JND Studios what a difference it makes to have the eyes, eyebrows and hat shape improved. As I've said before - they've got it SO very close. It's the eyes and eyebrows which let it down the most. Can you magine how incredibly with would be...

I know what you're saying but the JND eyes color is extremely accurate to the green hazel eyes that Ford has. The reason they look darker is mostly due to them being deeply set in shadow due to his brow overhanging them. If you look at the "extreme close-up" of his eyes as he runs up to the...

Here's another image. Again - the only adjustments I made here were the angle of the eyebrows / frown and I opened up the eyes a bit more so he's not squinting so much. JND literally don't need to do anything else to improve this portrait except make the changes to the eyes and eyebrows as I've...

I'm not on facebook but if anyone here is - you should post that photo on JND's page so they can see the reaction of people who see what it looks like with the eyebrow change. I've sent it to them directly, but if they can see the positive reactions of people who see the likeness better with...

Yes. I copied the eyebrows from a very similar angled photo of Ford from Last Crusade, then pasted them onto the JND image and blurred the edges of the pasted eyebrows a little so you couldn't see the "cut edge" from where I'd cut them from the actual photo. The JND sculpt (from this angle...

It's all in the eyebrows. Here's my attempt at adjusting the eyebrows (on the right) compared to the current JND portrait on the left. They are SOOOOOO very, very close with their portrait. If only they could level off his eyebrows a bit like I've done in the modified photo, I think people would...

If you look at the face in detail (and ignore the horrible hat) it's actually very well done. Everything from the bone structure, and anatomy under the skin is very accurate to Ford. Here's a side by side with a photo from Raiders. If they could only make his eyebrows less worried and a bit more...

As a casual LOTR viewer, I've not really paid much attention to this release before but wow, to my untrained eyes (when it comes to Liv Tyler's likeness), this looks like a beautiful statue of her character.

I'm right with you on that and this just goes to prove that it's incredibly difficult to nail a likeness (even with access to the best and most definitive reference possible). This IS Reeve's face and ears but here we are, still thinking that it's not quite right. LOL. I'll try and get some...

Yes, it's an idealised version (idealised due to the sculpted hair and style of paintjob I think). The actual features of the face are Reeve's features - directly scanned from the lifecasts, so they're going to be closer than anything sculpted from scratch. The other angle I've got of the sculpt...

Yes, posted it on statue forum too as not everyone on there comes over here.

Here is a resin painted 1:3 Chris Reeve Superman bust that was created from 3d scans of three separate authentic lifecasts of Reeve that were taken by Stuart Freeborn in 1977 when Reeve was filming Superman the Movie. The lifecast scans were then tweaked digitally to remove the "sagging" caused...

I personally think they got this a lot closer than people are giving them credit for.

Let's put this into perspective for a moment and compare it with the other 1/3 Reeve Superman that was made available to us a few years ago. I personally think that this will be a stunning display piece and I will be amazed if anything is released in the future that will surpass this.

Yes, I find it very frustrating when I see these products lit so poorly and with filters. JND are all about hyper-realism, but their photo and video style doesn't showcase the products in a flattering way at all. Give me a naturally lit, how it will look in person photo any day of the week!

Yes, that photo of the Art Department sculpt is not as good as the JND