Attached Link: The Monster Mash, It Was A Graveyard Smash- The REAL Frank N. Stein

Here's the REAL Frank N. Stein, AKA Boris Karloff. I've seen some great Herman Munster versions, but now that Mike is out on the loose, hasn't any of the character designers been able to capture the REAL Frank?

Have you checked the free Zygote downloads lately? They have a fairly good start at it. That new morph would be a good starting point. I think they intentionally avoided a direct similarity for legal reasons.

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I will go take a look. Are you saying somebody can be sued for creating a likeness of Boris Karoff's "Frankenstein"? Here is a like in the U.K. to people providing various "lifemasks" of Boris Karloff. I don't know if this is "authorized" or not. http://www.hothouse.force9.co.uk/page20.html

(Sorry about the bad English. It has been mangled by about 5 Tequila Daquiri's)

Depends on how deep your pockets are as to the suit issue. People like me have little to worry about, a company like Zygote need to be more careful. I believe that most work done before 1942 (in U.S.) would be in the public domain by now but again that dosn't make much difference to hungry lawyers, it's a win-win situation for them regardless. That image looks good.

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Lawyers... Where's my tequila...

Universal Studios has gone to great pains to keep Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Dracula, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon as licensed properties. Even though Shelley and Stoker's books are in the public domain, the actors plus their makeup were properties of the movies Universal made, so they can do this. And believe me, they do. That "Monsters of Universal" logo is on EVERYTHING with them these days. In another example, when Spitting Image auctioned off their puppets for charity, it was with a clear proviso that SI still retained all rights for performance usage of those puppets, which meant you could hang them in a display case but not make commercials or movies or even public shows with them. Someone out there has an eight hundred dollar figurine of Prince Charles just ripe for razzing, but it ain't gonna happen. As I suspected, the lifecasts are from makeup artists (who probably shouldn't be selling them). All but that first one above are probably kosher as long as the actor doesn't mind.

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Boris Karloff doesn't mind, because he's dead. He made somewhere around $25,000 for playing Frankenstein (but Lon Chaney, Jr. played him in later films). Birth Name: William Henry Pratt Date of Birth: 23 November 1887 Place of Birth: Camberwell, London, England, UK Date of Death: 2 February 1969, Midhurst, Sussex, England, UK. (emphysema) Trivia: Boris was the original inspiration for the first illustrations of the Incredible Hulk. Interred at Mount Cemetery, Guilford, Surrey, England, in the Garden of Remembrance. Please- a moment of silence...