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Published: 2015-01-14 13:29:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 256621; Favourites: 5911; Downloads: 2042
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hello everybody, I made a redesign of Darth Vader.you can buy a print here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/joshuac…
I hope you like it
you can keep my work and studies in my Fb www.facebook.com/1oshuart
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Sure! I was really impressed. I think the Stan Winston page on FB featured it some time back.
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Cool concept. I imagine it would be really hard to take a character as recognizable as Darth Vader and make him look different... and yet still the same. I think you pulled it off.
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This is a really impressive take on the character. You've incorporated his human face while still keeping him intimidating, badass and rather scary. I like the glass over his head reflecting the lights. Really adds to the effect.
Awesome work!
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"you merely adopted the dark side. i was born in it, molded by it."
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Those tubes and the helmet's overall design briefly reminded me of Cthulhu and ilithids. Definitely a good way to intimidate if you know either of those things.
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I cannot comprehend at how badass this looks! Nice job.
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wish there's a full body pic...... anyone else think of darth malgus?
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Looks more like Darth Malus but with a fish bowl on his head
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Obi-wan would probably died of terror instead had this version come waltzing in to duel him XD
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To take on a iconic villain such as Darth Vader is sure to provoke a reaction and I believe you accomplished it with this rendering! Overall I do like your design very much for it is original and defiantly a departure from the movie version.
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Wow this is soooooo good! you should be very proud of this 
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thank you a lot for your comment 
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You're very welcome 
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Looks spectacular. Great job, man!
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It's a redesign, I grant you: he looks very different from the movies. However, here he's nothing like the enormous scary machine he used to be: people can easily see how fragile his body really is; you don't need to kill him - you just have to kill the life support system, the wires of which stick out so that even the deflected light saber strike can damage them, leaving the Sith Lord without vigorously prepared and so necessarily-clean air. If anything, it's a design flaw for which the engineers must be executed and the new ones told about their fate so that they don't repeat the mistake.
His armor looks as if it's Daedra-inspired rather than worn by a Sith Lord. Its shiny-red lines don't give off superiority the tall black armor had - it only shows off Vader's craving for attention. It's non-functional overall, unless the red lines increase his level of protection. They seem to require power, too, so the armor has to increase its weight by providing these additional batteries. It seems that battery miniaturization is of advanced level compared to ours, seeing how the lightsabers could be powered seemingly forever after all the attacks and deflects they sustain - but still, additional weight is not something you want to have if your job is to conquer the galaxy manually.
Sharp edges of the pauldrons could be dangerous: if you lift your hand up, say, to strangle an enemy or deflect a high strike, you can pierce your own armor or break the pauldron, both of which undesirable results. The silk cape, while fitting the look, is outright dangerous, seeing how it can cut off the wires that seemingly fit inside the cape's little holes given enough of a push, as well as restricting the Sith Lord's upper limbs movement, which is his main tool of war, in the same conditions.
All of the above comes from the assumption that a Sith Lord engaging personally in fights, especially against the Jedi, would need nothing but practicality and defense without restricting his movement. If this Vader is mainly an official who only observes from above as well as channel ancient Sith traditions while not taking fights personally, I would believe this to be a reasonable design. I assume your idea of Vader to be the same since nothing otherwise has been stated.
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Soooooo... on a scale of 1 to totallyeffingjelly, how jelly are you that he redesigned a genre-molding and historically-impacting figure in a brilliant way that you never could?
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It's not an act of jealousy: I'm criticizing this work because it has very little artistic value as a redesign. I'm in awe of every person who can paint such picture, mostly because I'm a terrible visual artist, and I will admit both every day of every week. It doesn't mean, however, that I will praise every work I come across solely on the base of it being visual art - and it shouldn't: being a drawing of any sort is not an appropriate reason to raise your mark of the piece.
Neither is touching a character as popular and as impactful of the genre as Darth Vader. If I were able to draw or paint as good as ~1oshuart and went on to redesign Superman, people would certainly take a look at it - and I would have to be ready to take criticism from people like myself because I changed the way the character feels in a big way, possibly changing the whole nature of the character in question. However, if I were to redesign the Plutonian, maybe one out of ten thousand would bat an eye, even though the character himself, as well as the artistic medium he appears in - Mark Waid's brilliant comic series Irredeemable - are fantastic in their depth.
Thus, calling it "brilliant" is the same as calling changing the fruit ration from oranges to apples "brilliant": they're seemingly of the same matter - still fruits - but very different in reality. I can't deny the fact that some people indeed will find it very clever to the point of brilliance, but in reality if what you need is oranges, making do with apples is not an appropriate way. The redesign armor is much more impractical than the black armor - which still had its flaws, like the control panel right on the chest. It looks shiny, but if there's nothing behind the bling, it's not worth its time.
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Primary definition of "art" taken from dictionary.com:
"the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance."
Notice your idea of how this armor would or not suit Darth Vader in real combat doesn't fit any of those categories. However, it would more likely fit your complex of galactic strategist. Maybe if he was designing this suit for the NASA anti-alien crew then you'd have reason criticizing it the way you did. He is not, though... it's a high quality production, according to aesthetic principles.
Also, your points on how the suit would be impractical or dangerous in combat are mostly just obvious hater comments, especially if you take into consideration the original suit's impracticality in the first place.
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I must let you know that design - and armor design in particular - is not solely art as you portray it to be: it is as much engineering. This armor is to be worn by a person - in our case, by a person with critical special needs that is Vader's life support - so practicality, comfort and high defence capabilities is of utmost importance for the project. Putting those down in favor of bling and edges is disrespect to the blueprint and to the meaning of design in general.
As for "aesthetic principles", you're making a point of judgement upon them as if there's a standard to what those are, when in fact, not only there is no standard overall, but even the same culture could produce something people of said culture may not appreciate. You put forth the vision of beauty that you have without considering the possibility of there existing a different one from yours, perhaps very much so. If I'm wrong on that matter, please provide the true aesthetic principles upon which you base your judgement: learning of those would be an interesting experience for me, I imagine.
Lastly, I shall let you know that calling other people's opinion "just obvious hater comments" does not add you any credibility or gain you any ground in the argument. Going on by trying to humiliate your opponent is a dirty trick used in lack of meaningful position and clear definiton of the message you are to relay in your reply.
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You're mistaking this for a debate contest, I'm not here trying to reasonably argue with you since your comments regarding his work weren't reasonable to begin with. I called your different "opinions" hater comments because you judged his work as if you had any credibility on the topic, I'm only keeping the credibility level in my argumentation exactly where I see that yours stand. Your capability as an art designer is dreadfully below average.
Artistic armor design, for the sake of looking good, is just that. Nothing more. You're trying to over-complicate things so you can rant on and on about your delusional and incredulously top notch armor-design degree. It's just art. Must I paste the definition of art again?
I never set his work as a standard for universal beauty, I'm only saying it's a fine piece of art. I can appreciate that, regardless of it meeting my standards of beauty or not. I won't come up with ludicrously silly flaws, that are very much debatable, just to criticize his art.
Seems very obvious to me that you are butthurt, in some way, by his work. Whether it's because you're a Darth Vader fan and he touched your nono zone when redesigning it, leaving you all vulnarable inside (lolcute), or you are just incredibly jealous at his art for whatever other reason - or maybe you just have yet another issue I can't really think about.
Seek help, friend! You probably need it.
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I must apologize before you. I was hoping to have a meaningful conversation on the topic, and I stuck with it in such hope even though it seemed from the start that meaningful your intention was not. With this reply, you've confirmed my suspicion, which leaves me with no option but to leave this altogether. I admit that I might have been overly aggressive in my critique due to the current mood of mine - still, I stand by my words, since nothing has yet been presented, by your or any other party, that would go on to argue about the contents of my critique rather than its shape. This is a bad redesign, with many flaws, both visually and build-wise, going on with complexity where simplicity suffices, as shown in the original armor.
You call out my seeming incredibility in reasoning an armor design, say I'm ranting rather than providing reasonable critique to a work that does not stand in my eyes, subverting your own words on the subject while giving no credit to mine. I must say, for a person that calls out hate comments, you're rather acid yourself.
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Wow! He looks much more threatening!
This is awesome!
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Very cool! I like the clear dome,it may not quite cut him off from humanity the way his usual mask does (which is part of the point of it) but it's a different take on the character's look and it would be damned interesting to see this put into place.
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While I do really like the overall design, I feel like the clear dome top is kinda not that great. Don't get me wrong, it's amazingly done, but it goes against the idea that this feared lord of the sith and terror of the galaxy is really a frail and broken man under the armor and darkness.
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I think it would be a great take on vader in a marvel comic.
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