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Agreed. Why add those unnecessary lines? Major downerNot a fan of the overly busy design, but I like the body so I’ll probably pick that up to upgraded the Sideshow figure. He’s looking a bit squatty in this one pic though. Wonder if this is a new body they’ve developed and if they’ll be using it for a future tiger stripe Wolverine? Not sure about the headsculpt either. Either way, happy to see more of my favorite Xman, so looking forward to the full reveal
As mentioned above, they definitely basically took the XM statue and turned it into a figure. Too bad they didn’t replicate the XM headsculpt though.
Didn't Sideshow already make a plain-suit "I'm wearing a Spirit halloween spandex" Cyclops for people that want the animated series look?Agreed. Why add those unnecessary lines? Major downer
Adding texture changes and seams to physical fabric costumes where you can't get the same adherence to muscle definition and shadows/highlights is just a different way to do the exact same thing.
Nah, you just need an appropriately sized and well defined muscle body to bring out the musculature in smooth spandex which hardly anyone has really made in 1/6. They’ve done it for 1/12 and those bodies look great in spandex. Sideshow’s laziness to not do that is what makes their figures look like what you’re referencing.
What you said, 1000%. Plain, untextured suit with no design or patterning whatsoever just comes out looking like a super polyester suit made in the 1970's.Didn't Sideshow already make a plain-suit "I'm wearing a Spirit halloween spandex" Cyclops for people that want the animated series look?
Plain, giant swaths of solid color from comic books work because there's inking, shading and muscle definition to give those areas visual interest. Its giving your eyes lots of detail and depth to parse. Adding texture changes and seams to physical fabric costumes where you can't get the same adherence to muscle definition and shadows/highlights is just a different way to do the exact same thing.
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It can definitely work.Even if you stuff a larger body into a suit so that the fabric has no choice but to contour to the general shape of the muscles, you still don't overcome the problem that, outside of extreme lighting situations, there will never be enough shadow generated to create that visual interest to these large solid blocks of color that you see in the comics. Especially at scale, where the shadows are always going to be subtler. Panel lines and different fabric textures compensate for that lack of visual distinction.
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You're welcome to have a preference of course, I'm just saying there is a reason that films and television add panel and texture changes to these costumes, and will continue to do so when interpreting them from 2D drawing into 3 dimensional representations.
I’ve been waiting so long for a 90s animated style Storm.
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