The BATSUIT Thread

[Marvel united]

Fabric cowl and white emotive eyes. It's time.

 

[Boom]

I'm still very partial to this:

 

[Astro13Zombie]

Fabric cowl and white emotive eyes. It's time.

Nah

 

[Marvel united]

Nah

Yes. Time to move foward, keep pushing the envelope. I'm tired of stiff rubber cowls and human eyes. If Spider-Man and DP can do it, Batman can too

 

[Rorschach2012]

I'm still very partial to this:

This is pretty great. Love the colors here. I'd go with slightly longer ears though. The bodysuit is the perfect blend of armor and fabric. The tattered look of the cape is a really nice touch as well.That's a bigass batarang too haha

I'm down for the white lenses, just do it like the Arkham series though.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Yes. Time to move foward, keep pushing the envelope. I'm tired of stiff rubber cowls and human eyes. If Spider-Man and DP can do it, Batman can too

Emotive white eyes dont make much sense on batman. Spiderman has a mechanism that covers his full eye and the surrounding areas. Deadpool has cartoon eyes because his mask blinks, he only expresses through his mask and the gag is supposed to be cartoony by nature. Only way I see it working for batman is contacts.
And if batman were to have cartoon blinking white eyes then I want everyone else in the universe to have it. The flash, robin, GL, supervillains. Everyone magically has emotive cartoony blinking mask eyes.

 

[Boom]

Retractable lenses are a happy medium. No reason he can't have them when he goes beast mode on unsuspecting goons and evacuates their bowels.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

If they can be done in a good fashion sure. But not as a full time thing. What I do want is a CGI neck. So the actor can move his head with full range. Avoids the bubble head from the nolan series and avoids the fat neck that batfleck had in bvs.

 

[Aximili86]

Ehh, problem there is you have to use greenscreen, and that always comes off ringing really visually false. We get enough of that digital sheen with everything in the backgrounds already, DC and MCU alike. Hoping Reeve's flick looks a bit more "natural" for lack of a better description.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Batman Forever and The Dark Knight had retractable lenses and it was used really well. Batman still has emotive eyes most of the time without creepy white lens factor. But for some action scenes it can be effective.

Batman is supposed to be creepy, but white lenses would make him look like an alien or something. It's a bit too much, imo.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Ehh, problem there is you have to use greenscreen, and that always comes off ringing really visually false. We get enough of that digital sheen with everything in the backgrounds already, DC and MCU alike. Hoping Reeve's flick looks a bit more "natural" for lack of a better description.

Something as small as the neck shouldn't be that big of a problem. Especially since the Cape is often added in post. Hell the plating on thors arms were added in post in infinity war. I'm just not convinced that they cant do something like that without it looking natural. Especially since they dont have to create any new textures. Be it like rubber or leather or whatever. But that's just my take.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Please don't add the cape in post. What the hell has happened to real capes...

 

[Aximili86]

Something as small as the neck shouldn't be that big of a problem. Especially since the Cape is often added in post. Hell the plating on thors arms were added in post in infinity war. I'm just not convinced that they cant do something like that without it looking natural. Especially since they dont have to create any new textures. Be it like rubber or leather or whatever. But that's just my take.

Well, yeah, but a buttload of the backgrounds in Infinity War were greenscreen, and honestly the whole movie (great as it is) suffers bigtime from this greenscreen-sheen phenomenon, basically all the Marvel flicks since Phase 1 kinda do in a way. Even some of Phase 1.

I'm just not sure touching Batman up with CG in every single shot Batman's in, due to something as big & prominent as neck movement, is a great idea. Not being able to turn his head Burton/Schumacher/Begins style never really bugged me anyway, I way prefer that if it means we get the panther-neck look (as opposed to how ridiculous Bale looked in TDK & TDKR - that's the trade-off, it's practical but it looks pretty lame), I'd rather just go the Burton/Schumacher/Begins approach.

If they can find a way to get around it, panther-neck *and* practical mobility for the actor, then awesome. Just not so sure we need to be getting into digital stuff over a practical suit in a big way - it's fine for minor touch-ups and stuff in particular shots here and there, but anything more frequent & major and you do risk getting that Spidey Homecoming look about it.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Please don't add the cape in post. What the hell has happened to real capes...

They use both. Real capes are heavy and unpredictable in action scenes, but look great when the actor is standing still or walking. But They've been adding capes in post for years now. Nothing new At all.

And I would love if they came up with a practical neck that didn't look too big or buckle when the neck turned. But like I said they could build a practical neck but use the CGI one when necessary. But if they can make a cowl that looked form fitting and also allowed the actor to move his neck then I'm all for it. But the actor being able to turn his neck would be nice.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I hope we see the new costume early next year.

 

[Boom]

Why would we? They're not shooting until the summer, at the earliest.

 

[BattleAngel]

Boss logic's take on an Oscar Isaac Batman looks *amazing* -- first time I've seen a slightly more tech approach I've liked. The eyes are incredible.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I wonder if there have been costume fittings yet.....

 

[Boom]

I figure it's only a matter of time before this gets brought up.

 

[2kt09]

Yeah, but without the light-up eyes. Already saw that twice on two different Batmen.

 

[souNdwAve89]

That shot reminds me of the Telltale Batsuit cowl, but in live action.

 

[Boom]

Telltale was the first thing that popped into my head.

 

[Travesty]

Lens talk.

 

[The Shape]

Lens talk.

Gif is on point.

 

[thebatfan5194]

Bugging me that the mask isn't properly fitted to her face. Shoddy CGI...