I do think opinions are all fine, but it would be nice if people reserved their opinions for the work and not the process or artist. You probably haven't seen this, but this is a running theme with Rainman recently, where some have inferred that he is "rushing" projects to make a quick buck, at the expense of artistic quality. That happened with Ra's al Ghul even. To me, that's really low, and insulting to the guy.
But yeah, he does have commercial pressures to contend with, and I think they do affect him on some level. In fact, though I've been defending Rainman here all day the fact of the matter is--I'm not a huge fan of this sculpt, and might not buy even a head/outfit set as-is, because I also want to see something more accurate to Deniro. But we've seen so little of the haired sculpt (none of that outfit) that it's still a big unknown to me at the moment. I would not likely pay $1,200+ for a DX of this guy with sculpts as-is, though I would have considered it if the likeness got nailed.
