I looked over the 12" and was thinking that if I bought him, I'd get the regular one on ebay...so that I can perform some massive plastic surgery on him. It's doable, but it's gonna require alot of work, which I suppose can be said of most customs. Was playing around with Photoshop to see how much work would be required and came to the following conclusions about what I need to do:
- Chop off a bit his head
- Soften the bags under his eyes
- Fix eyes
- Smooth the furrows on his brow
- Resculpt mouth and nose...sand here and there, add here and there.
- Lighten skin tone...add a bit of yellow.
- Lighten eyebrows...possibly sand them off and re-do since it doesn't look like it's flowing right.
- And of course, make the cleft in his chin more prominent.
Biggest problem, however, is the distance from the bottom of his nose to his mouth...it has to be reduced. Gonna be pain in the ass to move his mouth up.
Probably more to it, but that's a rough outline of what needs to be done...so...does anyone have a spare Aragorn they can send me?
Below is my adobe once-over:
Regarding questions about the middle pic. It's a copy of the model and I had to do the changes pretty much in 5x5 pixel increments using various photoshop tools (clone, airbrush, scaling). If I had just blended his image from the left, it would've looked identical to Viggo's photo; however, it would not have given me an idea of what needs to be done.
- Chop off a bit his head
- Soften the bags under his eyes
- Fix eyes
- Smooth the furrows on his brow
- Resculpt mouth and nose...sand here and there, add here and there.
- Lighten skin tone...add a bit of yellow.
- Lighten eyebrows...possibly sand them off and re-do since it doesn't look like it's flowing right.
- And of course, make the cleft in his chin more prominent.
Biggest problem, however, is the distance from the bottom of his nose to his mouth...it has to be reduced. Gonna be pain in the ass to move his mouth up.
Probably more to it, but that's a rough outline of what needs to be done...so...does anyone have a spare Aragorn they can send me?
Below is my adobe once-over:
Regarding questions about the middle pic. It's a copy of the model and I had to do the changes pretty much in 5x5 pixel increments using various photoshop tools (clone, airbrush, scaling). If I had just blended his image from the left, it would've looked identical to Viggo's photo; however, it would not have given me an idea of what needs to be done.
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