Thankfully, the benchmark is a self-admitted work in progress. This is why the forums are so important. I have posted the very obvious, grating changes to my characters in other threads, but reading through this one I see that I'm not alone. I also see that many people were lucky enough to not have their characters drastically altered, or are indifferent to the changes! I would say to all of the people saying "just use the free fantasia" to please remember that some of us are playing characters with the darkest skintone, the fullest lips, the darkest hair. We have no where to "change" to.

There is no reason that jet black hair should be grey (and in the effort of arguing realism, I have black hair in real life ; it's not grey in the sunlight, and it's not grey at dusk) just as there is no reason to lighten skintones. Even most of the lip textures seemed to be placed wrong, either thinning lips or making them fuller (in the case of femra)

I do hope the team gets in here and sees complaints. There's some serious issues going on with lighting, and when it's egregious, it's (really) egregious. I'm trying to stay positive, though!