Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Kaziek]

The interval between the eyes and the skin is very wide and deep. The shadows around her eyes have been greatly reduced, and now it feels like her eyes blend into her face with a lot of lighting, without contrast. If there is a possibility that more shadows will be added, as in benchmark 1.0, her nose is also very pinched in the last update as well as her lips being plumped up a bit much. Her face looks completely different from the original.

Thank you for bringing up the benchmark again, it's actually crazy looking back on it and seeing how much nicer the lighting played with the new faces. I know this isn't a perfect comparison since they changed the time of day for each scene between the benchmarks, but this is with each one looking directly towards the sun.

6.x

Benchmark V1

Live

While there are still things that were definitely off with it (skin looking way too waxy, faces having freckles that didn't before etc.) it was overall much more flattering and felt more faithful to the original lighting. I hope they will reconsider the extremely harsh lighting that they went with in Benchmark v2 and Live, perhaps some sort of middle ground can be achieved.