The Flash The Barry Allen/The Flash Thread - Part 3

[king666]

Yeah... the chest symbol would work better with the white background.

The suit looks cool, though. It looks kinda raw.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

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[Mad Love]

LMAO @ the mental gymnastics people go through to justify ANY decision from the top. The ear pieces and white in The Flash logo can't be a part of the suit because they'd present a problem for the CGI/camera? Gimme a break. It worked fine over 20 years ago, and you can't tell me that with the technology we have today that THIS is the thing that totally throws the effects and visual board for a loop. What's likely is that _____ costume designer wanted to put his or her visual flair on it for "creativity" (ego in this case) sake. These changes do NOTHING to make it more "realistic" and look inferior in terms of design to what's worked for the character for nearly 60 years.

It's not that hard. The 90's suit is what you get for faithful costume and it did not look good. Sorry, but the reality is not everything in comics works for live action. Purists will never understand that and will forever be disappointed.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Needs the Ethan Van Sciver style ear pieces, the white behind The Flash symbol, and the gold lightning trim on the gloves and waist, put it on the boots as well if they don't want him in gold boots.

Red behind the logo instead of white looks bad. I'm not impressed with this at all now. Looks like The Flash has effectively been CW'd.

Looks like friggin Ultimate Giant Man more than Flash:

Some of the shots have the cowl looking better than I expected though. But they'd better fix this in the show at some point....there's a LOT of room for improvement. I'd like to be able to seeing the damn Flash in the show at some point.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

It's sweet that you think there's actually going to be one in the foreseeable future.

*It limits the potential of the movies, be it JLA, or solos.

 

[Gee]

Cool set pics.

So, they've released an official suit photo the same day they shoot the actor IN costume. Hopefully it's the same deal with BvS.

 

[Orb]

Nice to see the Flash will be out in daytime too rather than just nighttime like the Arrow.

 

[The Sarge]

Pretty good! I like a lot of elements of it- the head peice, some of what they're doing with the materials. Not the best things ever, and I would agree the belt sucks. Boots could be a lot more interesting too.

 

[Kevin Smith]

It's not that hard. The 90's suit is what you get for faithful costume and it did not look good. Sorry, but the reality is not everything in comics works for live action. Purists will never understand that and will forever be disappointed.

Except the 90s show wasn't "just like the comics", either. It was fake rubber muscles, had a nose piece, the white behind the lightning logo was a bit small, and he had burgundy boots. There's nothing wrong with doing a suit that had the good things the old suit had but out of different material/slimmed down. The old TV show suit was just as trendy for its time as the crap Gustin's got on. Rubber muscles back then = convulted armor these days. The 90s suit looked great for its time. 20 years from now see how well our contemporary costumes hold up.

 

[flash13]

I love everything about the suit!

 

[Sawyer]

*It limits the potential of the movies, be it JLA, or solos.

Fair enough. But it goes both ways. Linking the two universes limits the Arrow-verse/whatever we're calling it just as much as the films. I'd rather both be able to go full-tilt instead of having to worry about what the other side is doing.

 

[king666]

It kinda reminds me of Captain America, tbh

 

[Kevin Smith]

These are great. I especially like the way the cowl looks here.

The belt buckle just sucks and it needs the white on the chest symbol instead of red. Gold lightning trim on the gloves and waist/belt area, and put it on the boots too if they don't want the gold boots. Bam. Done. I hope they'll improve it like this later in the show.

Ear pieces look good here but they need to look like the Ethan Van Sciver ones if the end result is them looking like the first pic reveal.

 

[Mad Love]

Except the 90s show wasn't "just like the comics", either. It was fake rubber muscles, had a nose piece, the white behind the lightning logo was a bit small, and he had burgundy boots. There's nothing wrong with doing a suit that had the good things the old suit had but out of different material/slimmed down. The old TV show suit was just as trendy for its time as the crap Gustin's got on. Rubber muscles back then = convulted armor these days.

Of course it had fake muscles. That's the only way to show muscles through spandex because it's impossible to look exactly like the comics unless you want to body paint them. That's what happens when they try to look too much like the comics.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Now we all know why they released the suit unveil in the angle they did, to hide most of what that suit really looks like, I was really happy with it until I saw these.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I'm sticking with meh. The chest symbol looks lopsided. Why'd they make the lightning bolt stick out more on the top right than in the bottom left? Looks funky that way.

They should make the entire suit the shade of red behind the symbol, and replace the symbol's with white.

Really hope they go through a few iterations of the suit, so we don't have this one forever.

 

[king666]

Nice job. Looks pretty good.

Wow. Well that's interesting. Lot of room for improvement but it's a good Mark 1.

Red behind the logo instead of white looks bad. I'm not impressed with this at all now. Looks like The Flash has effectively been CW'd.

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jk, dude. I kinda agree with you on some stuff. The red behind the logo looks bad. I don't think the yellow boots are 100% necessary, but I do think the suit would look better with them.

But honestly, I think you're kinda exaggerating when you say: "it looks like The Flash has effectively been CW'd".

 

[Mad Love]

And when he sees the pilot he's going to be in love with it again, LOL

 

[Kevin Smith]

Of course it had fake muscles. That's the only way to show muscles through spandex because it's impossible to look exactly like the comics unless you want to body paint them. That's what happens when they try to look too much like the comics.

Lol, it had fake muscles because the '89 Batman suit had them and that was popular at the time, sculpted rubber muscle suits were a new thing - I think you mean tights are what happens when you get it "too close to the comics"...which is equally bull**** because it doesn't have to be one or the other or made out of crappy materials to look like the comics - they can do the same look as the comics just with cool materials.

 

[The Shape]

Am I the only one who's digging the red behind the logo?

 

[Orb]

It reminds me of the ASM suit for some reason.

 

[Sawyer]

It reminds me of the ASM suit for some reason.

Because all red costumes look alike?!? YOU'RE A RACIST!!!

Am I the only one who's digging the red behind the logo?

I'm not crazy about it, but I'm also not going "OMG this is ruining everythiiiiing" either.

 

[Mad Love]

Lol, it had fake muscles because the '89 Batman suit had them and that was popular at the time, sculpted rubber muscle suits were a new thing - I think you mean tights are what happens when you get it "too close to the comics"...which is equally bull**** because it doesn't have to be one or the other or made out of crappy materials to look like the comics - they can do the same look as the comics just with cool materials.

No you can't. They even needed to add some muscle padding for the MOS costume. No such practical material exists to be like the comics and muscles aren't constantly flexed anyway. I don't think you understand how reality is different from comics.

 

[Orb]

I HAVE A CONDITION!!!

 

[Paradox1]

Am I the only one who's digging the red behind the logo?

No I think it works in some shots