Current Events > New anime figure line boasts hyper-realistic skin, super-shapely butt

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Clever production innovation lets designers create amazingly convincing contrast between skin and other textures.

The anime figure business might seem simple. All you have to do is wait for the new season of shows to start, see which series are hits, and then fire up your plastic molds and make figures of their most popular characters, right?

But otaku are sticklers for visual quality, and just as anime artwork itself has gotten more polished in the modern era, so too must figures be a better match for the 3-D vision of the character that fans have in their minds eye. To that end, anime merchandiser extraordinaire Bandai has announced a new figure line, called Figure-rise Labo, thats the result of some very cool innovation.



The primary theme of Figure-rise Labo is skin, and not in the sense that the debut figure, Gundam Build Fighters Trys Fumina Hoshino, is showing a lot of it. Rather than apply coloring directly to the figures skin to create rosy cheeks and other natural-looking color variations, Bandai uses two layers of material, with differing thicknesses of the paler, semi-translucent top layer allowing a greater or lesser amount of the brighter lower layer to show through.



Not only does this more closely match the look of actual skin tone, not having to add different colors to the top layer lets designers leave it with a low-gloss matte finish. That, in turn, helps emphasize the shine on materials that should be reflective, such as Fuminas swimwear, which would be made out of some sort of sleek, shimmering fabric.



The contrasting effect is especially noticeable in the video below, where the figure rotates as the surrounding light sources cycle through various settings and the figures skin and swimwear look uncannily like their real-life counterparts would, as opposed to the pure plastic aesthetics of figures made with less-advanced figures.

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Of course, its likely no coincidence that Bandai has put so much effort into developing and showcasing how well the Figure-rise Labo line can handle skin and swimwear, considering that figures of bikini-clad anime ladies have always been a sure-fire way to get shoppers to open their wallets.




Whats surprising is that the Fumina figures flesh tones are arguably closer to that of a real humans than the super-shiny skin seen in many anime. Still, Bandai is likely to have plenty of interested buyers when the figure goes on sale in June, priced at 5,940 yen (US$56).

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50 bucks for a figure of that quality aint that bad

Dat face tho
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Make one with a good design and I will preorder instantly

Lorcus posted...

50 bucks for a figure of that quality aint that bad

This. I'm not a figure buyer, but if I was, that would be a great deal if they made one of a character I know and like.
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Has science gone too far?
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MacadamianNut3 posted...

Dat face tho

Yeah shame, she has very detailed body, specially the abdomen, and then the cartooney face with those ugly alien eyes.

Pedo shit
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Why are anime girls always like 12 years old?

I get that there's a... culture... that likes that kind of look but it feels like they ALL are fucking 12 years old.

It's creepy as fuck. Why can't you people find adults attractive?
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That's as impressive as it is creepy.
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TheMarthKoopa posted...

Make one with a good design and I will preorder instantly

you dont know whar good design is since you just collect lolis
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ModLogic posted...

you dont know whar good design is since you just collect lolis

I don't have any loli figures

Majority of them have huge boobs

That's actually pretty impressive. Too bad it's wasted on trash like this.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Why are anime girls always like 12 years old?

I get that there's a... culture... that likes that kind of look but it feels like they ALL are fucking 12 years old.

It's creepy as fuck. Why can't you people find adults attractive?

Is this a joke or do you really think the girl in the OP looks 12 years old?

lmao people really buy this weeb shit
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I'm not usually a fan of this kind of thing but it does look amazing.
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