June Benchmark feedback - Miqo'te M dead eyes

[Iscah]

There has always been a weird visual trickery going on with male Miqo'te eyes, where there's a gap between the visible eye and the eyelid that you assume is shadow but on closer inspection is actually blank.



The upgrade has tried to obscure this by adding dark makeup to the eye and the lower edge of the eyelid so it all blurs together, but the end result is that it looks blurry, and that characters are wearing makeup where they weren't before.

I suspect that what actually needs to happen to make them look "right" in the new graphics is to fill that blank space with the rest of the visible eye that you naturally assume is there, and use either permanent shadowing or get the right amount of eyelashes to create the same impression as before.

I made this comparison a while back of (1) actual eye shape in the current game, (2) how it would look if you "made the illusion real" and filled in the rest of the eye and (3) how it actually looks in the benchmark.

(under a cut because the image came out quite big)

As a test, I also posted the full version of the altered image by itself to a group chat, and nobody could immediately identify what I had changed in the image.

Admittedly I may have inadvertently exaggerated the difference between game and benchmark because it's impossible to pick that vibrant red shade for a playable character, but you can still see that the shape is so changed from what it currently is.