Thread: Benchmark 1.1 Feedback - Viera

Originally Posted by Rudje

Face 3 Lip 3 at least is noticeably different and it's not just shadow. unredlined, as a base; the redlined comparison is below (don't use for color comparison, I forgot to fuck with the benchmark gamma); the alignment is slightly off, i think, but it's not so far off that the lip shape should be changed as drastically as it is. If it was the only thing that got skipped in editing over it would be acceptable, to be clear, since his resting severe depression face hasn't been impacted, but it looks slightly... thinner isn't the word, scrunched? in a way I'm not a fan of. It's clearest in the cupid's bow, the peaks are higher and the dip is lower which when combined with how the lip color has been drawn in makes his mouth seem slightly smaller in comparison even though looking at the actual corners it clearly isn't. Even at my most generous, it's a narrower shape (the lower lip is less offensive, since it seems to be an issue of the texture being less blended).

Also looking at this I'm being reminded of how much I hate how thinned out the thick eyelashes option has been made... but yeah, it's part of broader changes in how the lips are being drawn and is part of a stylistic shift I do not enjoy even if, standalone, it would be tolerable.


Not my best work, my hands kept spasming at bad times, but you can see the what i'm talking about a bit better re: lips. It's minor compared to a lot, it's just... symptom of a broader problem I've seen a lot elsewhere.

Hmm...

What's interesting is that mouth 1 doesn't seem to face the same issue, and as far as I understand they should all technically adjust from the same baseline model. Its cupid line is practically the same. Which makes the difference in mouth 3 a touch weird.
(Pardon me my slightly un-perfect drawing)