Quote Originally Posted by CidHeiral View Post
I was struggling to see the difference as well so out of curiosity I took those images and made them into a gif.



Seeing them on top of the each other it looks like the eye itself is pretty much identical. The eyelash is a bit thicker and the outside upper right corner of the skin surrounding the eye is pointed slightly lower than it was before.

The OP calling that "not remotely close" to the original seems like a stretch but everyone is free to draw their own conclusions.
the new one the outer corner of the eye is lower (easy to tell looking at the space between the eyelashes and actual eyeball), and the inner corner is much more pointed and less rounded, and quite a bit shorter, and the actual eye is more open, leading it to look significantly larger and ovoid, if you aren't used to looking at the same character day in and day out, it might be harder to notice, but its not an "insignificant" change, because it affects the "mood" of the face, larger, more egg-shaped eyes give a different feeling than narrower sharper eyes.