Graphical Update Thread: Midlander Hyur

[Vanitax]

yeah I also noticed the cheekbones with a face 3 midlander I made once :'<

[eohippus]

I feel like I lucked out in that I don't mind face 5 looking a bit older for my guy specifically, and I don't mind his features being softened a little (even though I prefer harsher shading to define things like brows or noses stylistically). I came out more unscathed than my partner who plays as m!elezen. That said, there's still some things about the lighting that are really weird with darker skin tones. of course, it looked better in the trailer than the CC, but even just comparing between the CC....



(in case that link embed doesnt work, here's the image https://imgur.com/a/DWDbRkR )

like, the weird points of light at either side of his lips dont make sense to me, and he is overall a little more grayed out to the point where I'm going to consider taking him a shade darker and seeing if I like that more. (but that doesnt help anyone whose characters are already on the darkest settings they can use)

[eohippus]

having seen a lot of other folks' characters now it seems like a lot of the warmth got removed from darker skin tones. like, even the red-aspect of purple-y toned au ra and elezen. its weird.

[Heavenchild]

I think he looks much better now. I also tried with other cosmetics and the new hairstyle and I loved it.
But I wished that also the bodymodels would get a real improvement.

[cbanogueira]

It seems to me that the designers paid attention to isolated details of the characters' faces, individually analyzing eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, etc.
However, they forgot to analyze the entire work, the final face and how far it is from the original face. This can be seen in the links below. When seen up close, the face doesn't look that different, but from afar, when you look at it as a whole, it doesn't appear to be the same person.
I can't recognize my character after 9 years of playing Final Fantasy XIV. I'm very sad about this.

https://imgsli.com/MjU1ODQx

https://imgsli.com/MjU1ODQw

https://imgsli.com/MjU1ODM4

[hiedra]

I feel like I lucked out in that I don't mind face 5 looking a bit older for my guy specifically, and I don't mind his features being softened a little (even though I prefer harsher shading to define things like brows or noses stylistically). I came out more unscathed than my partner who plays as m!elezen. That said, there's still some things about the lighting that are really weird with darker skin tones. of course, it looked better in the trailer than the CC, but even just comparing between the CC....



(in case that link embed doesnt work, here's the image https://imgur.com/a/DWDbRkR )

like, the weird points of light at either side of his lips dont make sense to me, and he is overall a little more grayed out to the point where I'm going to consider taking him a shade darker and seeing if I like that more. (but that doesnt help anyone whose characters are already on the darkest settings they can use)

The highlights on the darkest skintones look kind of greasy to me and the shadows are not prominent enough so the face loses a lot of depth.