Au ra Benchmark Feedback

[Ridel]

I got to take a quick look at my Au ra in the Dawntrail Benchmark and I am very happy with the new looks for the most part! I only have one small nitpick, and I know it's pretty damn trivial, but I'm gonna bring it up anyways cause why not. (YoshiP was allowed to be nitpicky with lalafell cheeks too, right?)

I have an au ra that uses Face Type#2 and Mouth Type#2, and I personally always loved the shape of his mouth, where the corners extended slightly past his lips (it sometimes gave a bit of an upturned smile-look to his mouth at certain angles, and his smiles looked very gleeful), but in the new update, they no longer have that characteristic, and now look a bit too much like Face Type#1, mouth Type#1. It kind of took away the characteristic of the specific mouth shape, for me, at least.

It's not the end of the world and I know it probably sounds like a really dumb nitpick to begin with, but I thought I would bring up that change anyways... I made photoshop edits below to try and show how I would make it look more accurate to the mouth shape in question (quite literally just pulling the corners out a tad more, disregard the hair since I had to use a default style in the benchmark).

In the end, I like how my character looks and I can live with the new change, it's simply something that I will miss about his face.



A look of my character in-game currently:


Dawntrail look:

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Dawntrail look:

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[Loggos]

There is a mega thread to compile au ra related feedback in case you want to post it there.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...Au-Ra-Feedback

[Morravn]

Reposting what I posted in https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...08#post6439108 in the hopes it'll get seen. Hope that's ok:

Just wanted to add my thoughts in the hopes that it'll get changed.

I use au ra face 4, mouth 2, eyebrows 3.

The shape of the mouth has completely changed, and it makes the character's whole face look different.

https://imgur.com/a/OgUjRo4

This makes it look like she's gone for a lip filler. It makes her face look puffy and fake. Honestly, it makes me feel kind of icky, because it's like she's been edited to adhere to some kind of doll-like beauty standard - like she's been made to seem more cutesy and rounded, as if a load of botox and filler has been forced on her.

Additionally, the angle of the eyebrows has been relaxed, making her look less stern.

https://imgur.com/9dKm71X

Also, her nose (nose 1) has been turned up.

Essentially it feels like the lips, nose, and eyebrows have been switched to another kind - the lips most of all. I'm very unhappy. I don't want to play a softened, beautified version of my au ra who's pouting at me all the time. I want the shapes of her features to remain consistent with those I originally chose.