Ghostbusters Bill Murray Ada group commission

[ProgMatinee]

I think the hair isn't that bad. Maybe a little too detailed, which makes it look really thick and curly. I guess, I'd thin it out on the top too. But overall looks great to me.

 

[CAZAFANTASMA]

The hair has to be longer, specially in the neck area, or behind the ears. I´m with william also on the nose subject.

 

[Jessica]

So I wrote her back and she said she was still going to take the pic with the head on the body, but needed to wait (till there was someone with her to hold the camera). I got it that pic this morning. All is good with the size!

So, where the hell is everybody? This place is deader than a Clay Aiken concert?

I am always here. I am back at lurking.

I noticed that there was a subtle change to his chin and the wattle underneath there. Definitely a step in the right direction...it's looking good so it's not as angular as before.

She did something minor to his cheeks--the line is more pronounced and it seems like it changed his expression but overall his face still looks good.

 

[Migwit]

Overall looks good, I can live with the hair as long as the cheeks and profile are accurate. The size looks fine. It's getting there!!

 

[Spook_Nukem]

Ada seems to be awfully proud of the hair, which for all practical purposes is dead on to the stripes character. The hair is still a bit short for his Ghostbusters role but that's about the only fault I could find with the sculpt. The face looks pretty good and I think any retouches at this point may require a tradeoff with something else. At any rate I would like to see the hair longer but would still be proud to add it to my collection even at it's current state.

-Spook

 

[The Craw]

i like it right now. if you can change the hair that'd be great. if not, i think ill survive. after a stellar paint job this guy will look awesome.

 

[KingGrayskull]

We will not get any better head. This one is awesome! Neither Sideshow nor any other company would have made such a lovely head. There will always be slight differences but this one is as near as possible to Muray's likeness. Any changes would maybe destroy it lets keep it as it is. Rock'n'Roll this one is perfect from my point of view...

 

[The Craw]

We will not get any better head.

speak for yourself.

 

[Roc74]

I like the portrait alot too... but if she can make the hair more GB peter rather then BM Stripes, Id love it more! Keep up the good job coordinating all this WST!

Also based on how this is all going Id be intersted in heads for other Ghostbusters too...
GB1 Egon
Ray
and Winston

 

[CAZAFANTASMA]

Yeah, just add more hair. That´s it.

 

[Captain Britain]

I've only got limited access to a computer at the moment, so it's taken me a while to see this.

Basically, I think it's good enough except for the hair. If there was absolutely no language barrier I would ask for one more revision, but I think it's good enough now that any change might end up being negative. And the face might look better with better hair. The profile definitely looks like an improvement.

Bottom line - I'd tell Ada that the face is great and not to touch it; however, she has to fix the hair. That means less hair (or tidier hair) at the front and more hair at the back.

 

[Jessica]

I've only got limited access to a computer at the moment, so it's taken me a while to see this.

Basically, I think it's good enough except for the hair. If there was absolutely no language barrier I would ask for one more revision, but I think it's good enough now that any change might end up being negative. And the face might look better with better hair. The profile definitely looks like an improvement.

Bottom line - I'd tell Ada that the face is great and not to touch it; however, she has to fix the hair. That means less hair (or tidier hair) at the front and more hair at the back.

I agree, with the language barrier, it's better to leave well enough alone...I was worried about the size, but from the earlier photograph posted that's not an issue with this sculpt!

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

Alright, cool. I DEFINITELY appreciate all this feedback gang and weighing in of opinions.

Personally, for me when it comes to a head, I can always tweak/fix my own heads hair myself since it needs more hair and not less, so having her change it is less of an issue for me, other than wanting a 100 % sculpt.

This is not the issue with all of you though. Not all of you have the luxery of saying "no big deal, I can fix it myself", so I'm telling her "leave the face alone, take another stab at the hair", so that's what I'll do. I won't mention the nose.

This brings me to topic #2 (I feel like a PBS announcer at pledge-drive week!), I see this head being ready/completed by Ada to begin casting within a week, and that means I will need the rest of the Peter payments for those that haven't paid yet now or within this next week, because that's when I'll need to pay her so she can start casting.

Also, I'd like to send off the Ray commission at the same time to get her started on that as well, so if you haven't yet, Ray will be $25 + $5 for shipping. Now, if you guys have recovered yet from the Proton packs, by all means, lets kick ass and send off Winston too. This is all controlled by you amigos. We can send off 1 commission now or 2. Winston is also $25 + $5 for shipping.

I am very stoked!

Just PM or E-mail me for my Paypal.
Thanks!
-Rick

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

I like the portrait alot too... but if she can make the hair more GB peter rather then BM Stripes, Id love it more! Keep up the good job coordinating all this WST!

Also based on how this is all going Id be intersted in heads for other Ghostbusters too...
GB1 Egon
Ray
and Winston

Cool, gotcha added on the list for them!

 

[Cryoguns]

Alright, cool. I DEFINITELY appreciate all this feedback gang and weighing in of opinions.

Personally, for me when it comes to a head, I can always tweak/fix my own heads hair myself since it needs more hair and not less, so having her change it is less of an issue for me, other than wanting a 100 % sculpt.

This is not the issue with all of you though. Not all of you have the luxery of saying "no big deal, I can fix it myself", so I'm telling her "leave the face alone, take another stab at the hair", so that's what I'll do. I won't mention the nose.

This brings me to topic #2 (I feel like a PBS announcer at pledge-drive week!), I see this head being ready/completed by Ada to begin casting within a week, and that means I will need the rest of the Peter payments for those that haven't paid yet now or within this next week, because that's when I'll need to pay her so she can start casting.

Also, I'd like to send off the Ray commission at the same time to get her started on that as well, so if you haven't yet, Ray will be $25 + $5 for shipping. Now, if you guys have recovered yet from the Proton packs, by all means, lets kick ass and send off Winston too. This is all controlled by you amigos. We can send off 1 commission now or 2. Winston is also $25 + $5 for shipping.

I am very stoked!

Just PM or E-mail me for my Paypal.
Thanks!
-Rick

I'd say let's not run too fast on the other heads. Let's do Ray next, followed by Winston, and then the GB1 Egon re-do last. I'm game if we want to run Ray and Winston at the same time, but not everyone may be able to afford that.

 

[sladesuperagent]

Back from CPU-less Cali. I don't know how my sister does it, but I guess when you have a job were you can check email all day and not pay for internet/cable (and get away with it), I might do the same thing, but def feel outta touch with this thread.

Ok, first, apologies to Ironman for telling him (indirectly) to shut his pie-hole. I appreciate all heads-ups and criticisms, but I think the artist bashing was getting outta hand and it's stopped--so GREAT!

2nd, I think the second sculpt is better, but the hair is still wrong. Not a terribly big deal and something I think the paint can bring out at this point and not be too noticeable. I would be on the side that foresees more adjustments from Ada HURTING the overall sculpt--so maybe we should quit while we're ahead.

3rd, I'm definitely down for commissioned Alice packs, boots, pads, gloves, etc. If the jumpsuits were included as well, I'm down for those also--but they would hafta be fitted perfect, movie accurate, patches attached, and would ultimately force me to return or resell the Sat toys jumpsuits that I like so much.

4th--WST, I got your PM and I think we should just keep the above info in this thread b/c then all the info is right here. Once we get full details on all the stuff they're willing to do, I'd be happy to take over any ordering involved with it b/c you've been so on it with the heads AND the packs. Lemme know. And, I owe you some $!

 

[Spook_Nukem]

To help reduce confusion I would like to suggest that from this point on maybe we should only use source images from the actual movie role being commisioned. If better headshots are available other than Ghostbusters maybe cropping the image to only show the actual face would work. This should help to eliminate the chances of Ada having a bad hair day. Not too mention I don't want to see the Dan Ackroyd sculpt end up looking like Ellwood Blues.

I haven't tried it in awhile but I should still be able to take screen caps off dvds on my computer. It's how I made my ecto-goggle view avatar.

 

[CAZAFANTASMA]

Spook your avatar rocks.

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

Wow. I've just recieved a couple of really nice, kinda long E-mails from Ada.
First off, she's going to fix the scale on her Milla Jovovich head :chew, and she also told me if there is ever a problem with the scale on anything, and that it does happen occassionally, to let her know and she promises to fix it immediately.

I just wanted to throw that out there because she really broke away from her few sentence responses in my communications with me and I appreciate that (and I think it means she does read here. Hi Ada!). and that was nice to hear.

 

[icruise]

It's conceivable that Ada has someone else handling her email at least part of the time, which could account for the very short responses and miscommunications.