The white eyed sculpt is pretty sweet.
[XM Studios] Phoenix
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comicbookguy
Super Freak
This statue is proof to me that sometimes ... Just sometimes continuing to work on a piece doesn't make it better. This portrait was perfection.
Wow perfection face here^ if this was the one made oh .... I would have to pay up for this so beautiful and strong looking! CUSTOMIZERS???
Spidey976
Super Freak
Wow perfection face here^ if this was the one made oh .... I would have to pay up for this so beautiful and strong looking! CUSTOMIZERS???
That is one of the top 5 portraits I have seen, and it would NOT be easy to get anything close to that. That and making custom heads for an XM statue CAN be trickier as at times they have changed molds and keys part way through a run.. Though that may have just been with their Hulk and Cap.
Frostlord
Super Freak
I'm really not happy now the final headsculpts look.
Hopefully someone makes a custom head that looks better, if not I think I'll definitely be selling this
Hopefully someone makes a custom head that looks better, if not I think I'll definitely be selling this
Spidey976
Super Freak
Having tackled a female custom head I gotta tell you it is an ENTIRELY different animal...I have to take a look at this one eventually
Def the best of the lot and looks stellar on display.
Frostlord
Super Freak
I'll definitely be interested if you end up giving it a shot
That's what hurts it. I like the crazy sculpt and that's what i'll be using. The rest of the statue is fantastic and i can't wait for her to ship to me.
RebelScum_29
Freakzoid
venawn
Super Freak
SurlyJ
Super Freak
Seriously. The low hairline on the young Jean absolutely kills the sculpt. It makes no sense to me. These Phoenix portraits are truly a case study in that sometimes, it's best to just tell the fans "thanks for the input but we don't care". I blame the community for harassing XM about the sculpts so much that there was never enough clarity behind them since the initial sculpts. Such an odyssey. Lucky the rest of the statue is beautiful, even if I still want the painted bird.
Don't know but they seem to be one of the first to receive their allotment.
I still to this day think the painted bird looked best. This looks like it's on fire with a light behind it and i guess that's what the fans wanted. I agree that sometimes XM need to just go with what they think. Too much fan input isn't always a good thing.
From the artwork she has a fantastic portrait with well rounded features and high forehead and somehow the height of the hairline has been cut in half. The weirdest part is the hair swept up portrait which should really have the highest hairline of all is the lowest and worst.
I'm not normally interested in custom portraits but I'll be interested to see what comes out for this unless they're redone (again).
Spidey976
Super Freak
This is my first attempts at a female custom sculpt, and there is a lot more work to go into it.
I will need to see how it looks printed to have a full understanding of the digital to print issues. I still have light years worth of skills to learn, and this Headsculpt has a lot of ZBrush tools at his base, well way more then my male Headsculpt do. I will defi sty take a shot at a custom for Phoenix if there is an interest, and if there is someone locally who has her coming... Otherwise the keys and Ty ins would be almost impossible.
