I keep looking over screenshots and there’s just no way those eyebrows are the the actual eyebrows on the mask, they look a lot higher.
…and getting the eye shape seems to be just as tricky as getting the eye shape for h1.
the more I examine the mask the more questions I get.
why are the eyes different sizes?
Why are the eyebrows painted seemingly above the actual eyebrows on the mask?
Why the sideburns and high hairline?
Why the neck extension?
If you look at this blank, the eyebrows are sculpted into the mask.
They recast a '75 Kirk for this version, retooling a few features. The mask shrunk from recasting, thus the neck extension. Because they used a Kirk base, I suspect they copied the hair and sideburns from the original mask that they had on hand.
The eyes change a few times, probably to help the actor perform.
maybe they cut the eyes very low and down into the cheek sections, and that’s why it looks like the eyebrows are so high.
definitely a tricky mask to make it’s turning out. I’ve done a lot of 1’s and 2’s but I’ve only done one h4 and now I’m doing my second and I’m still finding things about it to be sort of tricky.
I also wonder if they glued in some black mesh because the eyes look totally black in every scene.
Yes, I am almost certain they did.
The eyecuts are cut a little low into the cheeks on that version, but not on the hero. When observing the hero you can see that the cuts even come up into the natural brow bone of the mask, not much lower. They aren’t painted on higher, its the retooling that was done to the mask that made it what we know as the H4. Same reason it has a warped nose and deformed ears, it was a quick sloppy retool done fast when after production requested them from DPS.
The eyes did have black mesh in there! 