I think this has been a good learning experience - first, make everything REAL SIMPLE because that's the best way to avoid errors and secondly don't try and mix and match photos from different movies to get one face sculpt with a facial expression from this movie and hair from this one. That's okay to do if you're standing behind the sculptor in the same room and you share a first language, but otherwise... As someone who has previously sent prototypes to the Orient (not toys) along with what I thought were clear instructions on its manufacture, and then watched with horror as something entirely different has returned, I can only applaud Shats for having the balls to take on this thing.
Ha, thanks man! Honestly, this is the seventh head I've done with her and I think we have a good working relationship going by now. I can't say how she might treat other people, but she's always been very polite and up front with me. At the same time, maybe she makes more concessions for me because of that too. She's also been talking to me in more than two word converastions recently, which is also nice (she seems to speak English pretty well, so maybe she does have help answering e-mails and stuff which is how things get missed. I dunno).
As far as maybe not choosing pictures as reference from different movies in the future, I will admit that almost every head I've had commissioned from her so far has been characters from tv shows, except for Bishop and Newt from Aliens and Tall Man from Phantasm, and those pics all came from a single movie, so maybe you're right. It's a contradictory bag actually, because her own site says she's more than willing to take a smile from this photo and hair from this one. To avoid confusion though, I think not mixing movie pics is the best plan (and the Stripes pic was done because that's what we all voted for at the beginning).
Say, did anyone want to see the newest batch of revised photos from Ada? Did you see how I made you read all my crap first? Ha ha! Personally, I would approve the sculpt here. I really like the side view of the hair. Could we tinker with little things here and there? Yes. Would that be the start of us being kind of obnoxious? (laugh). Yeah.
So let me know if we're good here so I can tell her.
Also, now I REALLY need the remainder of the Venkman commission payments (so I can pay her for your casts who hasn't paid yet). I'm hoping to pay her for everything by Monday so she can get them ready and shipped off to us within a few weeks if we approve this.
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