7.0 Graphic Update - Elezen feedback

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Post here your elezen before and after!

Edit: Compiled a list of all the feedback, organized into groups with links to examples. Links can be found starting from here.

Overall
- Faces are too rounded and smooth, and have lost definition of chins and cheekbones. Wrinkles have also been smoothed out too much.
- Facial expressions and 'feeling' of many characters have changed significantly due to these changes in features.

Hair
- Hair colour has been washed out and becauase of this, some original colours are unable to be replicated now. Some hair colours have also been strangely darkened.
- Hair has lost its shine, looks more flat.
- Some hairstyles are no longer 'fitted' to the face, causing clipping issues.
- Some hairstyles are completely broken, or have strange shadows.
- Strange lighter-toned highlights that look like tinsel visible on some hairstyles, especially with darker hair.

Eyebrows
- Some eyebrow shapes changed, either in shape or thickness, which makes the 'feeling' of a character massively different. Some of the new eyebrows make the character look more aggressive or angry rather than gentle, friendly, kind, solemn, or thoughtful. Others have weird smudges underneath them.
- Some eyebrows look faded.

Eyes
- Duskwight drawn using Wildwood face textures, giving them dark eye circles that they didn't have before.
- Wildwood dark eyecircles decreased.
- Lack of eye highlights and/or eyes now having pupils that are too dark at the top is causing a dead look in the eyes. It also makes the eyes look half close and lidded, which impacts the character's neutral expression significantly.
- Eyelashes are longer and thicker, changing the visible shape of eyes and also contributing to the dead eye look by covering any highlights that may be there. Eyelashes also seem to pop in and out of existence depending on distance of camera to the face.
- Texture issues in eyelid region (very visible during blink).
- Some eyes have changed shape.

Lips
- Some lips have been turned up at the corners creating a 'smiling' effect that wasn't there before. Others had corners of the lips faded away, changing the expression.
- Some lips have completely changed shape.
- Lips have a harsh line now, are less blended.
- Flat colour of the lips it makes the lips look painted on rather than full, like before. Lips lost their shine. Also 'light' lipstick doesn't exist anymore.
- However some are happy with lipstick colour coming through better.
- Some lips have an odd stripe of light added above or below them, creating a 'milk moustache' effect.
- Female elezen's mouth animations seems to be broken, with the bottom lip curving upward unnaturally in emotes.

Noses and Ears
- Some noses have been made straighter, narrower, less pointy, or otherwise had their shape changed drastically (bridge bump removed etc). Others have become rounded and softer.
- Ear 3 seems to be smaller than before.
- Ears are too different. Some are fatter and rounder. Strange crease at the back of ears.
- Translucent ears do not match the colour of the skin, staying a bright peach/pink no matter what. They seem to be only tuned for lighter, warmer skin tones.

Skin
- However, for skin tones that match (lighter, warmer skin tones), overall most seem to enjoy the translucent ears.
- Skin looks strangely shiny, like wax. This is especially noticeable in darker skin tones, with some lighting situations making the skin appear as if wet or glossy.
- Skin tone has changed significantly for some characters with no way to update it to match the original, especially for duskwight.
- Skin looks oddly mottled.
- Skin is now unnaturally one-toned and more lacking in natural hue variation of living skin, e.g. eyelids are no longer pinker.

Makeup/Facepaint/Scars
- Light makeup is barely noticeable now, and dark makeup is too heavy. Eyeshadow behaves differently
- Facepaint seems to look low res or washed out. Female duskwight facepaint, especially when darkened, show a strange visual bug.
- Lack of details on scars make them look more like a dark line painted on rather than a scar.
- Eyebrow paint no longer sits on the eyebrows.

Other
- Earclasps shape and colour has changed drastically.
- Beards are less thick and have obvious mesh holes where they are not even touching the face.
- Dirty texture on female elezen starting clothes, and left thumb mysteriously blackened. Racial starter gear low rez.