Darthvaderv wrote:
I feel some get caught up in the overall gloss of the finished product.
...I'm sure Gino could match many shots on screen as any good Vader item could with the right angles and lighting.
And the real test of accuracy is not to show how a helmet matches a couple of screenshots, but to show how a helmet can match EVERY screenshot ( adjusting only dome positioning, camera viewpoint, and lighting). That's how you know you've got the shape and the details right. For example, a detail assumed to be a vertical dip when it's actually a diagonal slant, it may look like a match in a couple of views, but will look inaccurate in others. Gino's look great from some views, but they don't have the more rigorous accuracy of others.
craigjohn wrote:
For someone who is (allegedly) a stickler for detail, Gino's helmets always seemed to have the front of the dome pulled down too far - seemingly at or below the middle notch between the eyes. ...or it may be the shape of the dome's front brow, lacking enough of an arch - or combination of both. This alone, in my observant eyes of watching ANH countless times (read my opinion), counters the authenticity of the "Vader look".
Yeah I think the eFx domes are too. The look is too curved and how it frames the mask too draped and shrouded. One could lower the helmet and tilt it back to reduce the look of the front being pulled down too far, but then the back of the helmet would pull down too far.
Brent72 wrote:
I'm not trying to compete with Gino(or anyone else for that matter), but I will say that I prefer my own ESB Vader to his....and this is just a crappy cell phone pic I took a couple minutes ago, not a professionally done photo shoot to showcase it.
I was so impressed the first time I saw that video of your complete ESB Vader in action. And still am! Next if you just add a meditation chamber-like mechanism to lower the Dome onto the Mask, that would be really cool! ;)
craigjohn wrote:
That is insanely awesome.
Weird - ESB Vader with two ANH Troopers - and one stunt helmet has bubble lenses.
I think one ESB stunt trooper and one ESB Type 2 or ROTJ trooper with frown painted like ANH... looking like this randy pair here: