I think a lot of the inconsistencies can be put down to the fact that the mask has been touched up at different points in time for the filming of both movies.
Yea in this shot I took my 98 looks Pail white
I really respect and admire ur optimism and ur will to find answers but there is a thread someone on here TheGhostlyShape could point u in the right direction which settles the debate on all the masks used and they have all been identified and those two photos u are comparing are indeed the same mask brother!!
Itās exactly the same mask in both shots. 100%.
http://www.horrorcostumeindex.com/blog/halloween-12-stunt-mask-identification
https://www.michael-myers.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=120213&start=30
This pic is not colorized or edited.
The hero and stunt masks featured a distinctive flesh pattern due to the high angle of the spray cans; the white acting almost as an above light source, contrasting with the darker tan base color. The neck was repainted when the rip was repaired. I encourage you to give this technique a try and see what you think.
Iām not sure if anyone has ever mentioned this, but Iāve always wondered that if when Tommy Lee Wallace first painted the mask, why would he just leave the neck and area under the chin flesh tone? Maybe I have OCD, but it just seems odd to me that they had this concept of a stark white mask with everything painted white, except the neck? Why not just go back and touch it up afterwards?
I think itās somewhere in the middle, as with most things. Just a hint of flesh showing through would look cool. Iād like to see a copy done up like that.
Thank u Jimmy thatās the shot I was looking for and the mask galleryā those are some cool
Shots with some flesh tones as well !!!
I am 100% in agreement with themaskgallery.
Iāve personally sprayed several masks from a downward angle and itās just amazing how accurate the flesh patterns are every single time. Once you try it yourself itās quite obvious the way certain things miss (flesh colored upper lip, jaw contour, cheek line, etc) vs what catches (white bottom lip, chin, etc).
Yeah a downward spray seems to work well. Id be curious if they did do this what kind of angle they did. Laying the mask in their lap and a downward angle of 45degrees perhaps
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One more thing I want to say isā¦ if don post did the masks why would they add sideburns ??! Just for the crew to rip them off ??? If they knew that they would cut the eyes and remove the sideburns why add them??? on every mask used in the film they have sideburn hair and a glue line on itā¦
I believe that there were some flesh tones on the neck of the mask as we see in the schoolyard sceneā¦and probably made more noticeable from hands constantly pulling the mask off between scenes. The paint would just wear off. By the time Halloween II came out, the where-a-bouts of the mask is speculative, and whether or not any repainting (for me) is irrelevant because i donāt give a shit about H2. If we are seriously only talking about H1ā¦there is enough proof in the actual movie about the fleshy neck issue just in the schoolyard scene, so what is the debate?
The schoolyard mask is a stunt mask though and not the hero
Personally i think the chin and neck area was spray painted really thin to begin with and then over time is started to fade of, resulting in some touch up post filming, and maybe under filming as well.
Not only that but the schoolyard mask really only had flesh on the back of the neck and on the jawline, the front of the neck is white. This is also consistent with how it shows up in all shots we have. Movie stills, BTS shots, Wrap party photo, etc. The flesh tones are where they are on each mask and donāt vary between BTS shots, lighting conditions, etc. I donāt believe the masks were all white at any point and that the neck paint rubbed off due to handling. The patterns are consistent all the way from H1-H2, only changing when they go back to all-white in 1985 for the first time, likely after being repainted/repaired between 1981 and 1985. The only thing that does vary prior to that is the color which makes sense given the variation in tone, contrast, etc between the photos we have.
TLW sprayed the mask from above, naturally the paint would land from above and leave under the chin etc bare or very faint. And Iāve worked with all kinds of Matte finishes, they do indeed sometimes, depending on the brand, mix with the white paint and cause discoloration. So the paint around the neck needs to be white, but so thin that certain lighting will make it look pink.
Are we all forgetting the TLW video where he does the mask in modern day? He literally said the crew would touch up the mask, meaning it probably got resprayed many times on set.