Because the stock Hot Toys one looks like a grumpy Pidgeon. Look how high the face is above the shoulders. More typically we describe that as being giraffe-necked but the pidgeon comparison is funnier.I get the matt-finish, yet what's with the all the short neck cowls , Suddenly looks like Uncle Fester in here.
Thats the way it should be! Whats with the giraffe neck on the hot toys?I get the matt-finish, yet what's with the all the short neck cowls , Suddenly looks like Uncle Fester in here.
To be fair this is a more of a "lack of fs given" thing. Now if you slap a Marvel/Disney logo next to Batman Begins, I'm sure this would not have been the case.
The fact that their first sculpt of Ra's after 15 years was a ******* head stone for the QS base is all you needed to know of what they think about Begins.
Licensing issue? I don't think so. But again what do I know.
Great looking cowl! I feel like the eye plate for this in your previous photos makes it look a little off? Think the eyes look a bit on the big side. At least compared to the TDK version, although I imagine they might be pretty close to one another.I spent a lot of time last night working on parts for this thing and I realized I really need to be grateful for this release. Seeing the initial solicitation for it led me to buy a PC, download Zbrush, have the Enterbay cowl scanned, and ultimately led to me learning what I needed to make my TDK cowl. Now I use like 4 different design software, have more 3d printers than I care to count, and have had my hands on a piece of the Trilogy's legacy, which was really cool.
This took so long to release I was ready to revisit the Begins cowl by now. I kind of knew this going in, but even screen used assets need some revision to look right. I was surprised by the way the mostly unedited Begins cowl looks printed. I think the nasal area gets stretched out and changes the shapes of the eye holes while worn. The Enterbay chin opening shape didn't sit well with me anymore either, so I revised that back to a more accurate shape.
We'll see how this looks printed, the overall shape is spot on but something in the face is off on my first prints.
Also, I know I'm oversharing but man trying to fix stuff like this makes me feel like I have some purpose
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That prototype was using a random eye plate I had in a reject pile from some pieces I made previously. Since they're a little rubbery I think that one is a little worse for wear from some experimentation. I also think the scan file's eye holes were way too open, I think Bale's cheeks push the bottom of the eye hole up a a bit and close it off. Once the next prototype is printed I'll test out a fresh copy of my eye plate and see if it needs any revision.
Looks great there! Yeah I think in your previous photos, the eye plate made the eyes look too big and wide open. Missing a bit of that squint that Bale had with his eyes 99% of the movie.
These capture my frustration perfectly. The nose looks different in each of these, as well as the sides of the chin opening, this cowl is just too flexible to get one sculpt that captures all it's looks. The screen used cowl gives me an accurate overall proportion and everything from the brow up and the back of the head stays pretty consistent so it's just a matter of getting the eye area and chin opening to capture an average of how it looks from scene to scene.Looks great there! Yeah I think in your previous photos, the eye plate made the eyes look too big and wide open. Missing a bit of that squint that Bale had with his eyes 99% of the movie.
God looking at movie stills just makes this figure look worse and worse.
Hey. Contact me on Instagram. Iconic-FX. I can probably help you out with a few things related to the cowl. At least give you some insight into things you may not know.
