To be honest, I don't think the Frodo sculpt is too bad (in my opinion). It's not as simple as 'tweaking' something here and there, there's a lot that goes into every aspect of production. Lastly, yes, we should absolutely not stop giving honest feedback. What I am doing is cautioning folks to temper their expectations with a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to situations like this, hence my use of the phrase " overestimate they listen to us." In fact, they have give us ample evidence in the past that they do, and the very existence of this statue proves that. Just to clarify, I wasn't implying that Weta does not listen to us. To bring up my previous example once more, there was far more noise made about Haldir and Weta's response - if they even read what was said - was to basically thumb their nose at us and release the statue as is, which basically translates to "Thanks for your input, but in our professional opinion, he looks just fine." It is also forcing a lot of professionals to admit that they made mistake in judgment, and such a thing does not come about easily. This isn't to say a face tweak isn't out of the realm of possibility, but it is highly unlikely this late in the game. You don't go to that event to show off such a high calibre piece with just a 'meh' sculpt, specially on the face. It's a matter of degree and influence, not that they ignore us altogether.Īs Mitheithel pointed out, likeness is indeed very subjective and you have to remember that before this statue got to SDCC, both the sculptor and whoever gave it final approval (Richard Taylor himself?) thought it was more than good enough. What I am doing is cautioning folks to temper their expectations with a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to situations like this, hence my use of the phrase " overestimate how much they listen to us." In fact, they have given us ample evidence in the past that they do, and the very existence of this statue proves that. Just because something doesn’t change, doesn’t mean we’re not being listened too, nor does it mean we should stop giving honest feedback. It’s like you say, the fact is they have to balance what we view as “off”, versus what they view as “off”, and it will already have been approved at several levels so it’s whether or not sales will be affected enough to warrant all the effort of changing something. Maybe slightly unfair, I think they DO listen to us. We complained about Haldir's cheeks, Gamling's orange beard, and Arwen's narrow alien face, and they still came out exactly as they had been previewed.įor the sake of everyone that was bothered by how Frodo looks and is getting this statue, I hope to be proven wrong (and I happen to agree the face is a little off), but I think there is a tendency sometimes to overestimate how much they listen to us. My point is, it's a lot easier to define 'refining' a piece as adding a few more blades of grass to the path, flowers on the side of the road, and adding more colour to some of the fireworks, than to redesign and resculpt something as complex and time-consuming as a character's face. Remember that before showing a piece like that at such a high profile event like SDCC, it was already approved by several people.Ĭonsidering how far along that sculpture probably already was by the time it was shown at SDCC, I simply find it very unlikely that they would go back to the original artist and say: "Eight people on that forum said it doesn't quite look like Elijah Wood. The problem is that what you are suggesting presupposes that Weta not only has read the few comments from folks here that didn't think the likeness was spot on, but also that they would agree *and* do something about it. Well imo it s good to see some improvments to come but i don t see the point of refining only the base and not tweaking the characters face in the same time before going for production.I don't disagree.
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