Also I think this pic got lost a couple pages back when the thread went a little off topic. What do you think about a design like this?
This is exactly the shape that needs to be used for the horns.
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I really like the cowl in the first image.
No disrespect to anyone, but most of the proposed designs that have been posted in this thread so far are, IMO, just God-awful. They are simply just way over-designed.
I was ok with the ears in Nolan's Trilogy, but I definitely wouldn't mind if they are shorter. Like this.
Completely agree. I think a visual typology has been borrowed from videogames like "Halo" and "Gears of War" and transplanted into the "Arkham _____" games. Those games, plus the Nolan movies, are all some people know of the character so, unfortunately, the ugly character design used is commonly promoted as a viable basis for the next movie costume.
Regardless of the design that is finally settled upon, I think that its starting point should be the classic costume seen in the comics, and none other.
The Arkham Asylum/City suit doesn't really have any Iron Man/Halo/Gears of War components other than the bulky gauntlets and the bulky boots. The rest of the suit is essentially the suit from the comics. The main point problem with the design of Arkham Batman is the fact that he has unrealistic body proportions. He looks as if he is on the juice. This gives off the impression that his suit is more heavy/bulky than it really is.
I don't mind the ears long or short, but there is a good reason to have them longer, because it provides Batman with the daemonic silhouette needed to strike terror into his adversaries.
If you reduce the ears to nothing, they become pointless, and then they do look silly. It is the same with the chest symbol- if you make it invisible you make it redundant.