EVE General Discussion

I kinda like how mine turned out except the lil kitty face from the shadows. I need to go back and adjust the eyes a lil

Males need a good faux-hawk so I can frat boy it up like a boss

Popped collar shirts would be appreciated too

Men roll out of bed looking good.

Women need tons of make-up and other bells and whistles.

Seems a perfect emulation of reality if you ask me.

Thank you.

I suppose this came out as acceptable.

The trick to avoiding the uncanny valley is to muck around with the skin features - tone, freckles, stuff like that. Real people don't have perfectly monotone skin. the forehead's generally paler, the cheeks are generally redder and the beard region is typically bluer.

Oh, and for male characters remember that in most men, beard hair is slightly more to the red than their scalp hair.

One request to CCP though - can we please get some body hair? I'm tired of my manly hirsute bearded chin guy having a chest and forearms that are as hairless as those of a Japanese pre-teen pop star.

I am surprised that most people don't change their portraits regularly. I think it is great when people do. I think I have resculpted this character 5 or 6 times since December with the most recent two basically toggling freckles on and off . I think my character's facial geometry changed a bit in the first two resculpts, but the changes in structure have now settled to my tastes. The results are a freakishly long nose, no brow ridge, deep, wide and high set eyes, non-existent cheekbones or cheeks, tiny jawline, very small ears, and a too wide mouth with a slight overbight over a pointed chin. Not traditional model "good looks" but my personal idea of perfection.

If you are having a hard time tweaking your character with a resculpt try this trick. Knock yourself out and experiment with the sliders in the character creator. Then when you are done click on the furthest left box on the "timeline" bar and go to the portrait screen. Hit print screen to get a screenshot. Go back to the the character creator screen and hit the furthest right box on the timeline. Go back to the portrait screen and take another screen shot. Reposition your character and repeat the above steps. When you are done and viewing the images as a slide show you will get very accurate before and after comparisons that will have the exact same pose (especially if you take the screenshot as soon as the portrait loads) and lighting. I have had some minor issues with this technique when the history bar is full, so I tend to first save a non-resculpt specific portrait for hair, clothes and makeup. This can be time consuming, but the end result should get you your perfect character.

I love seeing the wide range of avatars out there and want to see people achieve their ideals since the character creator can design punk, goth, glam, emo, and more.

One last tip is to crank up the brightness when taking a portrait since this will make your character's eyes, teeth and hair glow. This can be an issue if you have a skin tone lighter than the 4:00 position (the current setting for this avatar) but works great on anything darker. I think I will switch to the 7:00 Gallente skin tone setting later this month.

Houm, lighting is a delicate issue. To start it interacts dfferently with each skin tone and its natural shades. FAI, Ishtanchuk has got a one of the old skin types (a reddish one which was gone from the new palette) and it works better with medium to low lighting as her cheeks are naturally tan and look "too maked up" with full lighting; whereas my alt has got a fairer skin and she looks very good with full lighting to make her "shinier". But then, lighting also must match the background and also every light source will cast different shadow patterns and will change how the body and face are lit... and all is more critical with more light than with fewer.

So I would not suggest to pump up the lighting unless you're aware on how it will impact on the whole portrait -and IMHO, your protraits are overlit.

i totally agree. lol

i've seen any number of wretched examples.

The funny thing is how, at certain point, you must either choose to not make up your characters, or actually start reading on make up techniques and tips...

...and thx god i'm old enough to not doubt about my inclination just because I bothered to learn more making-up tips than I could imagine that existed.

(At some point, i would had asked to get make up foundation for our characters... but just asking to get plum/violet hues was odd enough).

ohhhhh!!!