Doc Brown's 2015 Red Chinese Shirt

[YenChih Lin]

Slowly but steady, I've got little good news and little "bad" news:
Good news: I found a photo of the first seal that contains the four words, I was cutting the seal pic and gave it a blind shot to google image search and got a hit on a blog, unfortunately not as large as I wish, but I think sufficient enough for our purpose.

These words escapes me, since their are written in seals script:

I forgot what that word means, I learned it but forgot it simply:

This seal has still be indentified thought I probably know two words, because of a museum catalog of an exhibition of national treasures of China I attended years ago, still flipping through:

I don't have a chinese seal book, which is a compiled pictoral list of seals, that'll be helpful… the original 89 shirt seal seems to look like the Ching Dynasty seal, it has certain characteristics, which makes them similar, but I still can't be sure of the low res.

 

[Contec]

Good work YenChih Lin:thumbsup I wish i had these vector symbols when i made my shirt. Would have been a lot easier than having to redraw all of them with photoshop like i did. :facepalm

 

[YenChih Lin]

Not much progress on my side, BUT: I just found a online database for seals coming from taiwan. ¯u·L¦Lºô_½f¨è¦L¾Ç±M·~ºô¯¸_www.sealbank.net_¯u·L®Ñ«Î¦L¾Ç¸ê®Æ®w It'll be a tedious work.

 

[Indy Magnoli]

I've started laying out the front of the shirt... slow work but coming along nicely. One character that is still missing (that can clearly be seen) is this one:

 

[Roland]

Do you still need help with the black flower?

 

[Indy Magnoli]

I'm using Contec's flower which seems very good.

 

[kevinericon]

I've started laying out the front of the shirt... slow work but coming along nicely. One character that is still missing (that can clearly be seen) is this one:

It's "Hot" in seal font. Its modern day writing is 熱.

 

[Indy Magnoli]

Thanks!

Does anyone have a copy of (or link to) a HD version of the Nike Air Mag commercial? Now that we have the characters all recreated, it'll be relatively simple laying them out based on the scene when Doc runs into the shoe store. Unfortunately, the shot I have is quite a low resolution, so you can hardly tell one character from the next.

Thanks,
Magnoli

 

[VilleLeskinen]

Back For The Future (OFFICIAL Nike Air Mag Commercial)! - YouTube
720p

Would that work? :confused

 

[Indy Magnoli]

Yes, that will help! Thanks.

 

[YenChih Lin]

Hi-Res BTS photo link:
[img=http://imageshack.us/a/img546/3087/tiny1.jpg]

BTW: You've got mail.

 

[Indy Magnoli]

Almost done laying everything out (I even found where the collar fits into the pattern). I'm still missing two pieces of the puzzle:

 

[kevinericon]

Maybe you can use vector graphic to draw it? It looks like 壺 so maybe you can get the seal character and modify it.

As for the black seal, I can only make out one character on the top left, should be 金.

 

[YenChih Lin]

As I said before, it's a pain in the ***** to skim through the seal database - I posted already a link. I wonder if you can take a look Kevin?

EDIT: Not 壺, checked it with the seal script font…

 

[Indy Magnoli]

The upper left one I can just draw by hand. The bottom one though... I wouldn't know where to start.

 

[knightlife]

I know I'm showing up a little late to this party and you guys are already clearly on your way to reproducing the Nike version of Doc Brown's Chinese symbols shirt. A buddy of mine tipped me off to this thread, hoping that I would have some insight.

My team and I built the DeLorean Time Machine for the Nike commercial and we were there for the whole shoot. We also got to do a sweet photo shoot with Christopher Lloyd dressed as Doc in the car. I doubt there are any better HD photos of that shirt than the ones JD Raimer took at the Nike event in Hollywood, but we did take some shots of Christopher Lloyd wearing the Chinese symbol shirt - without the gold jacket, so that might be helpful to you guys.

Lastly, I don't want to derail your Nike version of the shirt project, so you'll have to tell me if you also want the BTTF behind the scenes photos from part I and II that we have from the Universal Archives of Doc wearing the original shirt (same shirt in I and II). The detail is pretty good, though not in HD. You can actually make out the black square detail pretty clearly.

 

[YenChih Lin]

OMG!!! YES PLEASE You are GODSEND!!!thumbsupthumbsup:thumbsupThere are more glyphs that we saw on the JD Reimer photos…
Please send us also the BTTF BTS I and II shirt… You are a great help

I know I'm showing up a little late to this party and you guys are already clearly on your way to reproducing the Nike version of Doc Brown's Chinese symbols shirt. A buddy of mine tipped me off to this thread, hoping that I would have some insight.

My team and I built the DeLorean Time Machine for the Nike commercial and we were there for the whole shoot. We also got to do a sweet photo shoot with Christopher Lloyd dressed as Doc in the car. I doubt there are any better HD photos of that shirt than the ones JD Raimer took at the Nike event in Hollywood, but we did take some shots of Christopher Lloyd wearing the Chinese symbol shirt - without the gold jacket, so that might be helpful to you guys.

Lastly, I don't want to derail your Nike version of the shirt project, so you'll have to tell me if you also want the BTTF behind the scenes photos from part I and II that we have from the Universal Archives of Doc wearing the original shirt (same shirt in I and II). The detail is pretty good, though not in HD. You can actually make out the black square detail pretty clearly.

 

[Roland]

... Lastly, I don't want to derail your Nike version of the shirt project, so you'll have to tell me if you also want the BTTF behind the scenes photos from part I and II that we have from the Universal Archives of Doc wearing the original shirt (same shirt in I and II). The detail is pretty good, though not in HD. You can actually make out the black square detail pretty clearly.

Yes, please! If the details on those photos are better than on my screen caps, I would like to see them, so I might draw accurate vector graphics of the symbols and the black flower.

 

[DeLorean12]

This is great. I sure love reading a thread and watching everything come together on a great prop!

 

[knightlife]

Ok, here are two Still Photographer shots taken during the filming of BTTF II. It's the same shirt as Part I, but as you already know, not the same shirt as the Nike commercial. From these two photos, you can see both sides of the flower pretty clearly, and both sides of the square symbol as well. I hope all these new images help.