My Superman

[daglob]

Weekdays at 5:30 I made sure I was in front of the TV set and it was set to Channel 5, because at 5:30 came the words "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall building in a single bound,"... yeah, it was Superman.
So this is my Superman. Stealing some of Atomic Robot's thunder, he has George Reeves face. He's not as muscular as Renegade's or C6's (although I used one of his base skins), he's not as fancy as the VX versions, he's comfortable on a male cape no belt mesh.
Once upon a time I saw a picture of him in a brown and gray outfit, but it was a color picture, not a tint job like the one I've seen with the red and blue colors rversed (or the serial poster where he has yellow pants) I have assumed since then that the suit was for the B&W episodes, since the color didn't matter anyway, or maybe it was so they would show up better (Mrs. Peel's leathers were green for the B&W episodes, because green lit better than black). So we have two versions. The third version is my avatar, The Glob. He is a shapeshifter, and whenever he plays Superman, George Reeves is the Superman he plays.

[doctorchallenger]

Generally I like it, and I was hoping someone would photoskin George. However, the face seems a tad out of proportion to the mesh head. George had a big squarehead on a big barrel chest, so it may be that I am having trouble reconciling seeing the face on a slimmer body type.  Have you tried Renegade's Earth 2 Superman? Barrel chested and short cape. Very much in line with the TV show

Second: The neck muscles seem too defined in comparison to the muscle tone under the costume. I don't have any quick an dirty suggestion for that. Not really a big deal.

Lastly On the washed out/ early color TV/ pre-digially remasterd Supes, the skin tone seems to match that of the remastered Supes. To really create the effect you might want to "wash out" the skin tone of the base skin to match.

Overall, a very creative effort. Good Work.

[daglob]

Generally I like it, and I was hoping someone would photoskin George. However, the face seems a tad out of proportion to the mesh head. George had a big squarehead on a big barrel chest, so it may be that I am having trouble reconciling seeing the face on a slimmer body type.  Have you tried Renegade's Earth 2 Superman? Barrel chested and short cape. Very much in line with the TV show

Second: The neck muscles seem too defined in comparison to the muscle tone under the costume. I don't have any quick an dirty suggestion for that. Not really a big deal.

Lastly On the washed out/ early color TV/ pre-digially remasterd Supes, the skin tone seems to match that of the remastered Supes. To really create the effect you might want to "wash out" the skin tone of the base skin to match.

Overall, a very creative effort. Good Work.

I may try another mesh; I was trying not to have him too muscular. One problem with the face was that all the meshes I tried the chins are much larger than George Reeves', and it looked like they were dirty unless I moved the chin down to match. I just tried a couple of skins using Chris Reeve and Kyle Maclanahan and just positioned the features around the face and didn't try to match up chins. If you looked at Globerman from the front, I left his chin that way because for a silly character it seemed to fit. As for the skin tones on the B&W version, it really isn't black and white. In the picture I saw the color of everything else was fine, it was just George's super-suit that looked funny. I did this for the same reason I took one of Atomic Robot's Superman's skins and fiddled with the colors in Photoshop until I had a Superman Yellow and a Superman that loooked like the '40s serial poster that had the red and blue reversed:just for fun.
Softening the neck muscles is a good idea.

Thanks!