<div class='quotetop'>(JRX @ Aug 1 2006, 11:35 AM) [snapback]1291809[/snapback]</div>
<div class='quotetop'>(Scarecrow @ Aug 1 2006, 02:24 PM) [snapback]1291730[/snapback]
What's wrong with that? If it provides better results, I'm all for it. And there is always sculpting involved. The sculpt "printer" doesn't provide a complete perfect looking specimen.
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Nothing wrong with that, scans provide a good basis for a talented sculptor to detail the hell out of a Head,
but the big M is trying to pass all his stuff off as handsculpted by the best in the business - and that's just
not true. A sculptor who has to sit down and sculpt a likeness from scratch has a lot more difficultees to
face than a sculptor who is given a - let's call it rough - sculpt with all the correct facial dimensions and only
has to work the details out of it again.
I was a big McFarlane collector once, and impressed by the big talent and product the companies sculptors
put out year after year. But involving a laser scanner and passing it off as handsculpted makes me just feel
betrayed - not by the product wich looks great, but I'm not gonna respect a scanned headsculpt the same
way that I respect a handsculpted likeness, simply because much more effort has to go into this.
If it is scanned, I want to be told that it is scanned before I worship another sculptor for a work he hasn't
done completely on his own, but with the help of a machine - that's cheating to me.
These Figures look impressive and very great, and I will pretty surely even buy them, but I just don't have
the same respect for the likeness sculpts anymore - that's my point - I don't want to be lied to.
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I totally agree.
You can say I am a romantic, but I started sculpting props as an artistic work. Scaned figures are great but In my opinion there is not needed talent behind.
To get the accurate proportions of a figure is more than half way to final project.
I think that to have an excellent product finished at the same time it is a great movie or TV success demands a speed that only technology or too many hands can provide.
I don't want to argue, it is only my opinion.
Southreplicas