glitch wrote:I compared them with photos from the game, and to me it looks like the CCToys version is lightly more accurate. But I'm still a bit undecided on the head sculpts, so I ordered an extra calm MT version from ebay just in case I don't like either of them. lol
As for frown lines, MT did the same thing the their Jill sculpt as well. It's hard to see the expressive lines in Jill's sculpt until you play around with the lighting/shadows a bit.
I suppose that seeing how video games focus on lighting/ray tracing nowadays for ultra realism, it only makes sense that most of these sculpts (no matter how accurate) would look slightly off in real life lighting compared to lighting settings in a video game.
My fall back position, if CC Toys doesn't come up to scratch, will be MT's angry sculpt.
Trouble is, I don't like bending the rubber arms on these bodies, so opt for a more relaxed pose, unless it's a body I'm not too worried about that will always have the arms covered. Angry sculpts work better if the figure is posed in an action, otherwise it could come across as standing and scowling at passers by. lol
CC Toys' Ellie has her hoody, so protecting the arms isn't as critical. Yet, her right arm tattoo makes her more than just a regular body.
With regards to the body on MT Ellie, it turns out she's a bit short.
I guess it could be a PopToys Xing as the ankle pegs look like the longer options here:
I was surprised they were even the longer ones, since she already seemed petite next to other female figures.
Soa Lee, the Lead Character Artist at Naughty Dog who was responsible for some of Ellie's modelling in TLOU2, apparently confirmed in a private message that Ellie's Part II height at 19 is 5' 5".
https://thelastofus.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Ellie#:~:text=Ellie's%20height%20in%20TLOU%20part,'4%22(163cm).
The MT figure was a bit off, measuring 10.5", which equates to Ellie's 5' 3" at age 14/15 (the museum flashback).
I searched through my body parts stash and found a bag of accessories that came with a Xing and found a pair of these:
They have to be inverted to work as extenders, and plugged onto the ball joint that extends from the leg. Filling the holes in the shoes with blue tack enables the pegs to be inserted securely.
When I measured her again she was now a little too tall.
So I hacksawed a few millimetres off all around the peg, as indicated here:
When I reassembled her, with the pegs firmly seated in the blue tack, she was a perfect 5' 5" above the soles of her shoes!
An extra benefit of doing all that was that her jeans fit better. Before they were a bit long, with too many creases.