I finished repainting my Emperor yesterday.
There were a couple of things I did to make him more screen accurate (at least to my eyes):
- increase the size of the irises
- increase the size of the pupils
- give him a hint of a lazy eye (in most close up shots, you can notice his right lens didn't move)
- give more color depth to the skin folds with some reds and blues
- brighten up/whiten highlights of the skin
- make teeth more yellow
- add some red around the lips to give contrast
- decrease the size of the red rings around the eyes, but make the red itself brighter, so the eyes pop more
I'm really happy with the outcome, his passive smile is now more of his signature creepy/cocky smile IMO. I really started loving the sculpt - in fact, he's becoming one of my favorite figures in my collection.
I'm still working on new hands for him that are not as oversized, so no full body shots yet. I'm hoping to finish those next weekend.
I hope you guys enjoy the shots.
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I couldn't get the color balance exactly right between these two before and after shots, but I think it's a close enough approximation to show the difference:
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And finally, here the reference shots I used in case anybody is interested:
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This is the way it should of been done