I'm not sure what you mean, my point was it was neither.
Neither accurate to the show due to it not being stylised enough nor an accurate translation into realism.
Which has been the issue with a lot of these translated from animation figures including the bad batch, they don't fit with...
But it shouldn't be faithful to the show as far as proportions go. The show is stylised, the figure is meant to be reality/ authentic looking.
They should either be completely screen accurate to the cartoon or completely authentic looking. Half measures satisfy no one, and frankly I doubt they...
Here's another quick comparison I did. I photoshopped some changes onto the Hot Toys, namely how the mouth smiles, the eyes etc.:
Again, it's obviously not a perfect edit, it's just to capture the current issues. But hopefully this demonstrates the "cartoony" look the current Hot Toy...
The problem is the smile is too wide, the promo shot is deceptive. The way they've sculpted the mouth is too extreme.
I've photoshopped the image to expose more of the detail of the mouth and its clear whats happened is they've misinterpreted the shadows for the length of his open mouth...
I did this photoshop a while back on the prototype where I made the lips darker and the whites of the eyes more pronounced, in the hope that maybe the final version might make similar tweaks. It's a shame they didn't bother to at least tweak the paint apps from announce to release.
I mean...
Yeah the smile is way too over the top. He looks more like the Joker. He's also not fat enough in the face.
It's all a bit too much, which is a shame because they nailed the last couple Palpatine sculpts.
It feels like an old sculpt, like something they did in 2017 or something and left in the cannon.
It certainly wasn't made in the last couple of years at least, judging by how stiff and symmetrical the sculpt is and the lack of PERS.
I want a "oh ****, Inart" sort of attention paid by Hot...
This is honestly one of the worst Star Wars figures Hot Toys has put out recently.
Re-using the famously bad ANH sculpt for an older luke figure is already so utterly bizarre and moronic, but then to take that sculpt and dedicate an Artisan edition out of it for our first Artisan Luke...
If I...
Yeah it's meant to be the Star Forge armour but they went the cheap route hahah.
I still think it's a problem that there's a more accurate sculpt on non premium figures though (not specifically about the visor thickness, but more the mask details in general). I don't think we should be settling...
Just to note, the visor here is meant to be the pink/puple line and not the section above it. It's meant to imply the reflective glass of the visor reflecting the lightsabers light. So it's a skinny visor here (in the art moreso than the actual figure) too.
Here's the actual figure the art is...
But would you really want the main reference for long term canon to be a gestural/ smudgy painting?
I mean its to the point that, despite these both being key art from the same game, they both feature completely different masks. The inconsistency across versions is due to most of them using...
I did an edit to the mask in Photoshop to make it as accurate to KOTOR as possible. Essentially, Visor made thinner, added the additonal missing details / fixed the incorrect details, added some slightly coppery scratches, and added some texture/weathering to the silver part of the faceplate...
The most important issue clearly is, outside of the giant fat visor, the Hot Toys depiction just isn't detailed enough.
Every other depiction outside of cartoony ones has it with more panels, more texture and a more complex paint job all around.
A another issue with the HT mask is the use of...