Character graphical changes are NOT in an acceptable state, please make it optional

[Iscah]

I feel like the current look is more natural, like your average person who cares about their image and puts some work into it but knows how not to overdo it. Meanwhile in the benchmark she looks like one of those girls on social media who try to look like a doll.

That's my feeling on particularly my Midlander girl as well. I quite deliberately picked the face that didn't look too dolled up, but now she does. The increased effect of the ambient colour scheme also makes her look sickly, while every other lighting gives her the awful illuminated effect that can be seen on some other images other people's images.



The list of issues is long but the biggest one is that the eyes have totally changed – the eyelashes and lids are lowered and she now has a strong crease in the upper eyelid, which some of the other Midlander faces have but she previously did not, or possibly had but was totally concealed behind her eyelashes.

The nose is larger, the mouth shape has changed and I think her jaw is less rounded.

Meanwhile from a profile view, it can be seen that the new model has a more deliberate smiling expression instead of actually having quite a neutral mouth position that somehow gives the feeling of a friendly expression regardless – while still serious enough to not look inappropriate.

I really don't want my character to be smiling when she shouldn't be.




Meanwhile I'm generally having issues in the opposite direction with my male characters looking angrier, except for my Miqo'te who looks spaced out. I've been posting those pictures on other threads but will bring them in here as well later.


Edit: On another look, I don't think the moth has changed position much and yet the expression has changed. I think it's the shadows around the mouth look changed in a way that happens when you draw back your cheek muscles to smile? I've never had to think about the technicalities of expressions so much before as I have in the last few weeks.