LansdowneSt's Facegen Checklist

[AESP_pres]

Another smiling guy for you if you have some free time... Ben Johnson

There is a very good black and white picture of him in that article.

[AESP_pres]

Another smile challenge to add to the list... Jim Baxes

I don't want him to lose his glasses and it's the problem since I could do him if it wasn't for this. I think that picture is quite good to work with so I added it for you...

[hfield007]

any chance to get a Hector Espino, the Mexican League legend of the 60s and 70s?

[LansdowneSt]

Dimitrios Speros "Jim" Baxes (July 5, 1928 – November 14, 1996) was a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians for one season.

After a long and successful minor league career, 30-year-old Baxes finally made his major league debut April 11, 1959, for the Dodgers. He played in 11 games for Los Angeles, mostly at third base, and hit .303 with a .515 slugging percentage. When the Dodgers removed Baxes from their roster on cut-down day, he considered the idea of quitting baseball. Then, on May 22, Baxes was traded to Cleveland for $10,000 cash and a player.

Baxes played in 77 games for the Indians in 1959 – 48 at second base and 22 at third. He hit .239 for the Tribe and belted 15 home runs. Baxes finished with season and career totals of 17 home runs and a .246 batting average and was selected to the Topps All-Star Rookie Roster. However, it was his only major league season, as he was back in the minor leagues in 1960. After the 1961 campaign, he retired from organized baseball. - Wikipedia

AESP, I closed his mouth and did my best to keep the glasses which were fairly light and thin framed to begin with. The deep naso labial lines age him more than I'd like but losing them erases much of the character of the face. I kept some of that smile, so the lines make sense in context too. Certainly, a better representation of that photo than the current CUF one I saw in the "Before" screenshot.

Yup, I can add Hector to my list...

[AESP_pres]

Thanks! I knew the glasses would be a challenge to do, when the frame isn't dark they vanish easilly but they show just fine for the BB card.

This isn't an emergency it can wait so just put him in your list... Jose Pagan, I'm unable to do him without using a template and I have used every pictures I found to do him.

[LansdowneSt]

A .250 career hitter, Pagan went 7-for-19 (.368) in the 1962 World Series, which the Giants lost in seven games to the Yankees. He appeared in 164 regular-season games that year, including a tiebreaking series against the Dodgers. "People talk about shortstops and don't mention Jose Pagan," Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda said. "He was a hell of a shortstop, a hell of a ballplayer. Many times in '61 and '62, when myself, (Willie) McCovey or (Willie) Mays were going through tough times, Jose picked everybody up."

Mr. Pagan also drove in the deciding run in Game 7 of the 1971 World Series for the Pirates. His double in the eighth inning of Game 7 gave Pittsburgh a 2-0 lead over Baltimore, and the Pirates hung on to win 2-1. - sfgate.com & espn

As requested, AESP. I used the one on the ledt but actually turned it to B&W before I fg'ed it, so as to avoid some of the yellow discolorations in the original film

[LansdowneSt]

Héctor Espino's life in baseball is the stuff of folklore.

There's no disputing the monster home run numbers, countless accolades and absurd pace at which the native of Chihuahua, Mexico, broke records during an illustrious 24-year professional career. But that's just the tip of the iceberg in the story of the 5-foot-11, 185-pound slugger remembered fondly as “The Babe Ruth of Mexico.”

Today, 36 years after he swatted his last long ball, fans continue to share stories of how Espino put a different charge into the ball whenever he made contact, how infielders would drop line drives off his bat because they were hit so hard. You might even hear that he signed his first winter league contract with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo on a napkin in a Chihuahua restaurant.

According to a 1985 Sports Magazine story by Leo Banks, Espino once launched a 600-foot moonshot to dead center field that exited a ballpark in Guadalajara.

Still, one question hovers over Espino’s legacy while adding to its mythic quality.

What if?

Here's a link to the whole article which folks may enjoy:

https://www.milb.com/news/hector-esp...home-run-kings

I split the difference on heaviness/width of the face between various pics from his playing days. I didn't see a "before" in the CUF pack.

[hfield007]

Awesome stuff as always. he has a cool story.

[AESP_pres]

If you got some free time could you do Ron Piche for me? He's one of the few French Canadian who played in the MLB so I'd like a good FG for him, but I have a lot of difficulties with the smile he had on every pictures... Thanks!

[AESP_pres]

Could you remove the smile from that picture for me... no need to do the FG I'll do it. Thanks!

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by AESP_pres

Could you remove the smile from that picture for me... no need to do the FG I'll do it. Thanks!

Here's an enhanced one and one that's not. I took out some of the lighting issues too. You may need to address the lines from the smile. I didn't do the fg but that'd be something I suspect I'd have to mitigate in the source photo too a bit. I also took a lot of the green tint out, though some remains.

Also, since I'm on-line - Merry Christmas, all!

Also, AESP, I did Piche and will post him after I wrap some presents...

[AESP_pres]

Thanks! Merry Christmas to you and your familly!

[LansdowneSt]

It was Quebec baseball legend Roland Gladu who signed hard-throwing right-hander Ron Piche to a contract with the Milwaukee Braves in 1955. After minor league stops in Lawton, Eau Claire, Evansville, Jacksonville and Louisville, Piche made his big league debut on May 30, 1960.

The young French Canadian would excel in a relief role with the Braves in his rookie campaign. Suiting up alongside Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn and Eddie Mathews, Piche finished 27 games and notched nine saves (9th in National League) that season. He continued to be an effective option out of the Braves pen for the next three seasons. His finest season was in 1963, when he pitched in 37 games and recorded a career-best 3.40 ERA. He would also pitch for the California Angels (1965) and St. Louis Cardinals (1966). In parts of 16 minor league seasons, Piche recorded 130 wins and a 2.96 ERA. After retiring as a player, he became the Montreal Expos director of Canadian scouting from 1977 to 1985. More recently, his public relations work with the Expos earned him the nickname “Monsieur Baseball.” - Canadian Baseball HOF

Here you go, AESP.

[LansdowneSt]

The Holidays are over and I'm due to post another round of facegen updates via my Mediafire download site. Here it is via the link below (and my signature block link will also get you there). It's always the same link, I just swap the files out. Some of the 276 new MLB'ers and 35 MiLB'ers have had their facegen files posted but many have not. I don't have enough time to do individual posts for everyone but that doesn't mean I didn't try to improve their facegens. Here are the stats of where I stand on my checklist.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ox6gx..._Pack.zip/file

I'm pleased I have redone 23% of all the players that debuted from 1970 forward and more than 12% of all MLB players ever. Little by little moving forward to check facegens off my list. FancySkunk has been off-line since June but that's why I do these supplements... so you don't have to wait for new ones and what I deem to be improvements. Thx!

[diesel230]

Link not working for me

[hfield007]

File is missing when ya click the link!

[LansdowneSt]

Here are some examples of the new facegens in the pack:

[pstrickert]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

The Holidays are over and I'm due to post another round of facegen updates via my Mediafire download site. Here it is via the link below (and my signature block link will also get you there). It's always the same link, I just swap the files out. Some of the 276 new MLB'ers and 35 MiLB'ers have had their facegen files posted but many have not. I don't have enough time to do individual posts for everyone but that doesn't mean I didn't try to improve their facegens. Here are the stats of where I stand on my checklist.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ox6gx..._Pack.zip/file

I'm pleased I have redone 23% of all the players that debuted from 1970 forward and more than 12% of all MLB players ever. Little by little moving forward to check facegens off my list. FancySkunk has been off-line since June but that's why I do these supplements... so you don't have to wait for new ones and what I deem to be improvements. Thx!

Much appreciated!

[LansdowneSt]

And finally, a few more...

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by hfield007

File is missing when ya click the link!

Reposted it - give it another go. The readme of what comes down should be the new one as I put the date of the pack therein. The fact there are also 2,800 fg files in the MLB folder means the new link has taken and replaced the old.