The Amazing Spider-Man Spider-Man Reboot Costume Part 4 - "What's that in his eye??" edition

[Troy_Parker]

But that doesn't really explain why they had to depart from the comic book version's blueprint. Use a different texture, black webbing, different eyes, and/or different spider symbols will make for a costume that looks like the classic Spider-Man, but won't be confused with the James Acheson designs.

They haven't greatly departed from it, contrary to popular belief.

Basic layout of red and blue body suit? Mhm.

Angular eyes? Oh yes!

Urm, "web" designs on the suit? Kind of, yes.

Spider symbols on front and back? Yessirr!

When I have time, I'll try to Photoshop up a suit design fitting some of your guidelines. (different eyes, black webbing)

But I can guarantee it will still look strikingly similar to the Raimi suit.

It looks bad to me. Like they're trying to fix something that isn't

That's your opinion and is something that's entirely subjective. It doesn't look "bad" or "broken" or anything to me. I love this suit as it (to me) looks like a perfect modern/high-tech adaption of the classic design. I love the Raimi suit for its faithfulness to the source material without looking like a goddamn crappy cosplay costume.

This argument is total ********. This suit looks just as expensively made as the suits in the Raimi films. Also, traditionally, Peter doesn't have very thick soles on the costume's feet, because he wouldn't be able to adhere to a surface through normal shoes. For example, he had to carry his shoes to his wedding to Mary Jane in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 for precisely this reason.

Look at the studs on the shoes. There aren't that many studs on the shoe/s and there is a far more "empty" surface area. Seems sufficient to enable Spidey's wall crawling ability to work properly.

Isn't Spider-Man's wallcrawing ability a form of bio-electricity or something? If that's what they're going with, a shoe with a sole that's about a centimeter thick will not impede his ability.

 

[Godzilla2014]

They haven't greatly departed from it, contrary to popular belief.

Basic layout of red and blue body suit? Mhm.

Angular eyes? Oh yes!

Urm, "web" designs on the suit? Kind of, yes.

Spider symbols on front and back? Yessirr!

When I have time, I'll try to Photoshop up a suit design fitting some of your guidelines. (different eyes, black webbing)

But I can guarantee it will still look strikingly similar to the Raimi suit.

Similar? Yes. But it would look different enough to be a distinct, separate interpretation of the comic book design.

That's your opinion and is something that's entirely subjective. It doesn't look "bad" or "broken" or anything to me. I love this suit as it (to me) looks like a perfect modern/high-tech adaption of the classic design. I love the Raimi suit for its faithfulness to the source material without looking like a goddamn crappy cosplay costume.

That's also an opinion. Most of this thread is constituted of subjective opinions. That's the whole point of this thread.

Look at the studs on the shoes. There aren't that many studs on the shoe/s and there is a far more "empty" surface area. Seems sufficient to enable Spidey's wall crawling ability to work properly.

Isn't Spider-Man's wallcrawing ability a form of bio-electricity or something? If that's what they're going with, a shoe with a sole that's about a centimeter thick will not impede his ability.

To my understanding, Spider-Man's wall-crawling abilities are based on electrostatic attraction, like a real spider's.

I see that, and those studs just happen to be right over the toes and heel, the specific part or the foot that Spidey uses most often to stick to surfaces.

 

[Troy_Parker]

How are the studs on the heel of his shoe? There's six studs outlining the sole of the shoe near the front of the sole of the foot, but there's not a single stud on the heel. o.o

And well, according to the Official Handbook of the Marvel universe, Spidey's able to "enhance the flux of inter-atomic attractive forces on surfaces he touches, increasing the coefficient of friction between that surface and himself."

Again. A shoe sole that's around a centimeter thick is not going to hinder that ability to the point where it's pointless to even bother wearing shoes.

 

[Godzilla2014]

How are the studs on the heel of his shoe? There's six studs outlining the sole of the shoe near the front of the sole of the foot, but there's not a single stud on the heel. o.o

And well, according to the Official Handbook of the Marvel universe, Spidey's able to "enhance the flux of inter-atomic attractive forces on surfaces he touches, increasing the coefficient of friction between that surface and himself."

Again. A shoe sole that's around a centimeter thick is not going to hinder that ability to the point where it's pointless to even bother wearing shoes.

I meant the joint for the toes.

 

[Immortalfire]

OMG it looks so teh real!


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[Troy_Parker]

 

[SUP]

does someone have or (can) do an edit like @Troy_Parker with differents comic (ultimate or classic) style like eyes pls ,tnxs !! btw if someone can use the "lafuente" version thats really cool

 

[TheWallCrawler]

hey, all of you guys that are complainin about the lack of belt, remember this?:

almost everyone praised this, nobody complained about it not having a belt. So, why is it such a big deal now?

 

[VenomSpawn]

I'm pretty sure it was praised as a good costume redesign, but that it wasn't wanted for a movie.

 

[Immortalfire]

Looks like K-Mart Halloween costume.

 

[spideyguy16]

... Why was that praised...

 

[VenomSpawn]

 

[TheWallCrawler]

It was praised for teh realism

 

[Godzilla2014]

I have an interesting costume design idea with the classic outfit.

I was thinking of incorporating the borders of the red areas into the web pattern by making those lines look more like the webbing. What do you think?

 

[VenomSpawn]

Looking at Godzilla's argument at the top of the page, I thought of something...

In Raimi's films, how could Spidey climb walls at all in that suit? How did the hairs on his fingers go through all of that raised webbing?

 

[Godzilla2014]

Looking at Godzilla's argument at the top of the page, I thought of something...

In Raimi's films, how could Spidey climb walls at all in that suit? How did the hairs on his fingers go through all of that raised webbing?

They aren't present on the soles of the feet. The finger tips I'm not as sure about.

 

[Spiderman6592]

That's just saying "**** you" to the law of suspension of belief.

 

[Compi716]

hey, all of you guys that are complainin about the lack of belt, remember this?:

almost everyone praised this, nobody complained about it not having a belt. So, why is it such a big deal now?

Because this is a total redesign. It's one thing to come up with something completely new and fresh, because then certain liberties are accepted. It's something totally different to take something really familiar and remove one little item.

 

[spida-man]

It's not about it being more "realistic" it's about it being more presentable in context. The classic Spider-Man costume doesn't work in the world that is being presented on the screen, just as Batman's grey/black suit with a blue cape wouldn't have worked with what Chris Nolan was attempting to present.

Arguing about which costume is better on the basis of realism is a silly point to hinge an argument on.

it works in the Arkham games

 

[spida-man]

Hey up


Let me share with you guys what i've been working on for some months now.

epic!

 

[Juicy J]

I like the suit generally, I just don't know why they couldn't have stuck to the original design. If it's broke don't fix it, basically.
The colors, webbing, and the eyes are perfect though.

 

[Godzilla2014]

I like the suit generally, I just don't know why they couldn't have stuck to the original design. If it's broke don't fix it, basically.
The colors, webbing, and the eyes are perfect though.

Agreed. I think it goes too far in trying to differentiate itself from the Acheson costume to the point of pointlessly messing with things that have been consistent over nearly 50 years.
A lot of my problems with this costume are summed up in this article: Why "The Amazing Spider-Man" movie is (probably) going to suck

 

[Spiderman6592]

You can't just cut and paste the eyes from a real life costume onto a template of a cartoon suit and call it "wtf school". Get over it dude.

 

[Oscorp]

Agreed!

 

[Godzilla2014]

You can't just cut and paste the eyes from a real life costume onto a template of a cartoon suit and call it "wtf school". Get over it dude.

I think you missed the point. My point was that the ASM costume differs from the source material in ways that just seem unnecessary and/or are detrimental to the design.

Why do the horizontal lines just stop half-way down the chest, leaving curved vertical lines? And why for God's sake is there a similar area with just vertical lines on the sides of the boots? What was the point of it?

The back spider is a great example: The back spider is too slender and just seems to disappear at distances at which both the classic comics and the Acheson design's back spiders would be very visible.

It comes off as changing things for the sake of changing things or because they're arrogant enough to believe that they could top a design that's managed to survive for 50 years.