Spoilers DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6

So is that Matt Ryan with the beard? This is a case where I hope, at most. They make a quick joke about him looking like Constantine, and just roll with him as a new character

 

So, a special guest for episode 100 (the third episode of the season, "WVRDR_ERROR_100 <Oest-of-th3-Gs.gid30n> notFound") has been announced (beware minor 100th episode spoilers):

Spoiler: guest

Wentworth Miller reprising his role as Leonard Snart

 

saw that in another part of the internet that wasn’t so careful about spoilers.

 

Shrugs...

That’s nice I guess. Was hoping for someone to return who has not been back before.

 

Entertainment Weekly posted photos from the filming of the 100th episode... spoilers, if you don't want to know who will and who will not be appearing in the episode.

 

I find it amusing that they seem to still struggle with doing Steel FX after all this time. It doesn't even look like morphing, the steel effect just seems to splotch atop his face.

 

Why would it look like morphing? There's no change in his proportions, so what is there to morph?

 

Doesn't he turn to steel? I guess it's subjective, I personally didn't care for how it looked and it seems like it always just awkward looking with Nate and his powers. YMMV

 

Yes, but, again, why would that entail the morphing effect? Morphing is a digital transition between two different shapes, hence the name, but Nate's steel form has the exact same shape as his normal form. So what is there to morph? Aside from his hair smoothing out to solid metal, maybe.

 

I wasn't trying to wage a battle on the term but if you go to the dictionary or wikipedia it generally says from one image to another, not just shape.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/morphing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing

 

Yes, of course, since it's a 2-D process, but two images of different shapes. It's the process of calculating intermediate shapes between two different images to create a 2-dimensional approximation of one transforming into the other. My point is, when the starting shape and the finishing shape are both exactly the same -- where every point in the image ends up in the same place it started, just with a different color -- then what do you imagine morphing would look like that's different from what we got here? I genuinely don't understand what you're saying you wanted to see instead. Terminology aside, in your ideal vision, what would the effect actually look like?

 

Oh were off terminology and back to what it should look like? I'm afraid to even say the wrong word here, it just doesn't look smooth or seamless to me as a purely subjective thing, it looks like someone draws gray shapes on his face and then he's in full stiff CG form. Maybe that's fine, I don't know that I'm objectively *right*, it's just my perception while watching it.

End of the day, it's a half-second effect so I guess it doesn't really matter much in the scheme of things.

 

I'm not judging, I'm just trying to understand what you're saying. I agree it could be done more realistically with more time and budget, but I'm not sure what technique it would entail. I thought maybe it could be something like the T-1000 Terminator, but from the clips I can find, the effect they used was pretty much the same, just wiping between "liquid metal" shininess and realistic texture -- though that was the 1990s.

 

COOL! This is a great way to celebrate this oddball little show getting to 100 eps!