JND Studios: 1/3 John Wick

[Hobbyist]

Originally Posted by IcedDog

I don't find that reasoning to hold any water. Infinity Studio and Queen Studios are both Asian companies, and they've produced some amazing likenesses of non-Asian people. I think it more comes down to individual pieces within each company, as no company has a 100% track record of nailing human likenesses.

Originally Posted by Blade3327

Silly take. For years, most of the industry's leading likeness sculptors have been Asian.

Originally Posted by jodl73

Yes like others before me have said, being an Asian has nothing to do with it. I'm Asian and I know the likeness is off. And like others have said a lot of sculptors and painters are Asian. Look at Hot Toys and Inart. Hot Toys is an Asian company. Heard of J.C. Hong?

I responded before I saw your post.

[Hobbyist]

Originally Posted by bytor33

I?m aware there are exceptions but it is backed science. Maybe this is the reason with JND being off, maybe not, but it?s clear that they need some outside help regardless.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...r-other-races/

Beware of "Science" with a hidden agenda. Not all science is factual and correct.

[Hobbyist]

Originally Posted by Brandon

Simple. This is "JND's interpretation" of John Wick....or at least that's the cop out they've used in the past whenever they didn't want to do the work to make a piece screen accurate.

The word "interpretation" has been overly used as an umbrella term to explain away inferiority.

JND has paid far too much attention and emphasis on materials used and not enough on the actual likeness of the characters they produce.

Who cares about silicone, rooted hair, glass eyeballs and false teeth when the likeness is not there. Not me.

Collectors are spending the big bucks on a perfect statue of John Wick, not a perfect statue of his stunt-double.

[Hobbyist]

Originally Posted by God

Interestingly, even the sculpts of the Korean actors that JND produced seem pretty off as well when comparing the sculpts to the real people (Kim Hye-Su as Madam Jeong and Choi Min-isk as Dae-su Oh).

They look lifelike, no doubt, but there are these alterations to aspects in the likenesses that has a similar off feeling.

That is absolutely true.

However, I love that statue. I think that is the masterpiece of JND in terms of hyper-realism despite the fact that the likeness is a little off.

I know nothing about Korean cinema and Kim Hye-Su. So, I didn't even bother to compare it to the actress. Likeness doesn't mean much to me for this piece.

To me, it is just a sculpture of an East Asian woman sitting on a table in the hyper-realistic style similar to some life-sized sculptures one sees in galleries and museums but in a small scale.

This particular statue feels more like art to me than a commercial statue by JND.

[Hobbyist]

All of the images below are of 3D sculptures created by massively talented 3D sculptors.

The likeness of everyone of them is spot-on, IMHO. It proves that perfect human likeness is absolutely possible to achieve in the hands of great artists.

When you see a headsculpt with inferior likeness, it simply means that the sculptor responsible is not good enough and he/she just needs to spend more time on it.

Never accept the word "interpretation" as en excuse for an inferior sculpt.

[superdude]

Ok now I suddenly want a 1/3 Lucy from Fallout statue.

[Armored_Berserk]

I love JND and think most of their sculpt are spot on but this one...needs clearly a re-work, the likeness is not here, the eyebrows and eyes are off.

[IcedDog]

Originally Posted by superdude

Ok now I suddenly want a 1/3 Lucy from Fallout statue.

Haha, that's a super impressive likeness...Ella Purnell and her beautiful eyes ❤️

[Irenicus]

Originally Posted by superdude

Ok now I suddenly want a 1/3 Lucy from Fallout statue.

We definitely need a 1/3 Fallout line.

Regarding what Hobbyist said, I feel like a >90% likeness is mandatory these days.

And feedback is an integral part of achieving that, we see that on Inart, Infinity Studios and even Hot Toys.

JND listened to feedback once on CR Supes and it turned out awful. They have to really rethink their strategy and methods.

[Silas Loki]

I have a sinking feeling that JND won't last much longer.....which is a shame. Even if the company is running on trust fund financing and good will, a company can only limp along so long before the losses start to hurt.

It's rather telling how the highly hyped 1/6 line has vanished as quickly as it appeared, and while I have all the respect in the world for the artists at JND, it's becoming increasingly evident that they're not up to the standard we see from other companies (Blitzway, Queen, Infinity)..... add in audacious pricing and you've got a company going into a flat spin.