Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Louhikko]

Watching a lot of these comparison images, from midlander to lalafell and elezen, it seems for some reason, they decided to position the mouths higher up on the models...
I don't see the reason for such a weird change.

I know some people may not agree with me here because they dislike their characters changing but my bigger issue with midlander and elezen is that most of the noses are too high up/too short leaving an unnecessarily big gap between the mouth and the nose and I always saw this as a product of the models being so old (remember older races like hyur are like decade old at this point) either forcing the modelers to basically create character with (imo) bad anatomy due to technical limitations or the modelers at the time just not being up to task and I hoped they would fix these anatomy issues in the update.

Not just noses as well but a lot of the chins are kinda tucked in weirdly and especially elezens' body proportions are pretty horrific. I know people meme elezen necks but they got more issues with things like the shoulders being sort of detached from the torso and the upper chest being too wide, the head being too small for the bodies overall, as well as other small stuff, especially when the concept art actually had proper accurate proportions.

I think the raising of the lips was a half-hearted attempt to slighly fix the anatomy and proportions without fully commiting to it.

My point is that personally I would've been fine with them altering the models more radically for the sake of objectively fixing past issues with anatomy and proportions even if it came at the cost of altering the characters appearance but I also know it's not a very popular opinion here and I understand it. I think part of the dissatisfaction is due to the fact that they're trying to do both at the same time making things look even more jarring.

[MagicMush00]

I know some people may not agree with me here because they dislike their characters changing but my bigger issue with midlander and elezen is that most of the noses are too high up/too short leaving an unnecessarily big gap between the mouth and the nose and I always saw this as a product of the models being so old (remember older races like hyur are like decade old at this point) either forcing the modelers to basically create character with (imo) bad anatomy due to technical limitations or the modelers at the time just not being up to task and I hoped they would fix these anatomy issues in the update.

Not just noses as well but a lot of the chins are kinda tucked in weirdly and especially elezens' body proportions are pretty horrific. I know people meme elezen necks but they got more issues with things like the shoulders being sort of detached from the torso and the upper chest being too wide, the head being too small for the bodies overall, as well as other small stuff, especially when the concept art actually had proper accurate proportions.

I think the raising of the lips was a half-hearted attempt to slighly fix the anatomy and proportions without fully commiting to it.

My point is that personally I would've been fine with them altering the models more radically for the sake of objectively fixing past issues with anatomy and proportions even if it came at the cost of altering the characters appearance but I also know it's not a very popular opinion here and I understand it. I think part of the dissatisfaction is due to the fact that they're trying to do both at the same time making things look even more jarring.

I actually think the same too, i would have been happy if they took this opportunity to (properly) fix some of the issues the old models had, but right now, it seems that for like each thing that got slightly improved, they added or worsened another 2 or more.
Overall i think the new models (and some areas too) lost a lot of the appeal they used to have.