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[jwalker]

Hayley

My new shep from ME1.







She seem's sad here...



And she always gets nervous in front of a camera....

[Sable Phoenix]

Jane Shepard wrote...

My another attempt to create female Shepard... Not as good as I wanted...
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See, that whole "not as good as I wanted" feeling is something I experienced a lot when I was finalizing Jessica's design, and it always hinged on the nose. Most of the noses in the ME character creator are really wide. If you look at most of the human NPCs in the first game, you'll find a majority of them have an East Asian cast to their features or have a skin tone in the olive-or-darker range, and blondes are very rare (this is oddly absent from ME2, I guess all the white people headed to the Terminus Systems for some reason). I think BioWare is subscribing to the idea you find in a lot of science fiction, that humanity is homogenizing and that the Nordic and Anglo-European phenotypes are being bred out of the majority of the population (although realistically Mass Effect takes place too early for this to have started happening already, give it another three to five hundred years to really kick in).

Unfortunately, this creates difficulties with a lot of the facial structure choices, which already have wide noses built into them. On those faces, the majority of available noses are really really wide, and end up being too large for the rest of the face. This kind of restricts you to a choice between five (maybe seven, again depending on the facial structure) of the available noses, which is less than half of them and really heavily influences the look that so many Shepards seem to share. Sage's Kyrie Shepard is one of the few non-black Shepards to use this and make it look good, which is one reason I admire her design so.

Anyway, there's my rant on character design, at least for femShep. I think dudeShep has fewer nose choices overall, but they fall more into the median range. I don't know for sure, the few times I've tried making one I always end up with the same nose, there is only one that looks good to me in the entire male face creator. I do appreciate that femSheps get far more customization options, a small benefit thrown our way to make up for the fact that we don't have a default faced based on some real-life model.

Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 02 octobre 2010 - 08:05 .

[Sable Phoenix]

jwalker wrote...


Hayley

My new shep from ME1.







She seem's sad here...



And she always gets nervous in front of a camera....

Whoah, she looks a lot like my Renegade Adept Alexis.  Who is still sitting in Udina's office after Eden Prime.  Hrmm...

Anyway, very nice face!  The combination of that rarely-used brow choice with that mouth shape give her a unique expression.

Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 02 octobre 2010 - 08:08 .

[Jagged Orchid]

I think I need to get a second hard drive. I never realized how much space all these videos and images of Alexandra Shepard was going to take. I'm only through my first mission (rescuing Liara) and I already have over 100 gigs of video and about 1 gig of images




Edit: Hayley looks great. Those are some awesome images. I always wanted to try that renegade punch. Have yet to do it though.

Modifié par Valagil, 02 octobre 2010 - 08:21 .

[Chignon]

I finally got around to make my second FemShep. Devon's an Engineer - because the class needs more love, plus she can geek out with Kaidan over tech stuff.

 



(By the way, can I just say that I want the scars back for ME3? It added such a unique touch to the character you're playing.)

[Iwakura-Lain]

Valagil wrote...

Edit: Hayley looks great. Those are some awesome images. I always wanted to try that renegade punch. Have yet to do it though.

Hehe, I could never really bring myself to punch her lights out, either. I'm just a softie, LOL. Seriously, though, I thought the Paragon way out of that interview was very smooth; and not just slick, like a politician (think Udina), but genuinely a good and honest answer. In fact, I based an entire little work on it once:





I am at heart truly a Paragon. Hontou ni. But I love to watch you folks kick the occasional sh*t out of bad people.

Modifié par Iwakura-Lain, 02 octobre 2010 - 09:10 .

[Jagged Orchid]

Chignon wrote...



(By the way, can I just say that I want the scars back for ME3? It added such a unique touch to the character you're playing.)

I love giving my character's scars. I think it just adds so much more depth to the character etc. I'm a dork about it too and think up a whole story behind said scars. It was fun seeing the new scars in ME2 but since I've always been Paragon, they are generally non existant pretty early on in the game. I'm with you on the whole new scars for ME3.

Iwakura-Lain wrote...


Hehe, I could never really bring myself to punch her lights out, either. I'm just a softie, LOL. Seriously, though, I thought the Paragon way out of that interview was very smooth; and not just slick, like a politician (think Udina), but genuinely a good and honest answer. In fact, I based an entire little work on it once:





I am at heart truly a Paragon. Hontou ni. But I love to watch you folks kick the occasional sh*t out of bad people.

I really like that one...

Speaking of the interview scene. I also thought the paragon speech was well done. In ME2 as well. Especially if you saved the council. I love how Shep can name every Alliance ship that was destroyed. It was such an elegant way of putting Al-Jilani in her place.

Modifié par Valagil, 02 octobre 2010 - 09:36 .

[Iwakura-Lain]

rynluna wrote...

That is a beautiful wallpaper! Hale's delivery during I Remember Me is some of her best ME work, IMO.

I hope you added that piece to the Wallpaper gallery in the FemShep, DA group! : P

Yes, I Remember Me is one of the ME1 missions which touched me the most. I see it as being about making a real difference to people around you; not just about saving a nameless galaxy whole. Part of what I liked about that big TV interview is that it felt honest. And I think it's being held right after you successfully talked down Talitha (at least, it was so in my case). And I realized the great truth there: that being in the limelight is one thing (heck, every one-day fly artists are too); but to have it really mean something, and have it last, you have to be the genuine article. We see Femshep be in the spotlight, whilst Talitha dwelled in darkness; that's life. Yet Femshep does not squander her good fortune in vain. She uses honesty and kindness in her life, and so becomes a light herself. To Talitha, for one. Cardinal rule, though: no bull. You have to be real; otherwise it doesn't work.

Oops, that was perhaps a bit TMI (it's all part of my internal 'canon', though). Anyway, hadn't submitted it. Didn't want to overflow the group. But it's on its way now. Thanks.

[Chignon]

Valagil wrote...

Chignon wrote...

(By the way, can I just say that I want the scars back for ME3? It added such a unique touch to the character you're playing.)

I love giving my character's scars. I think it just adds so much more depth to the character etc. I'm a dork about it too and think up a whole story behind said scars. It was fun seeing the new scars in ME2 but since I've always been Paragon, they are generally non existant pretty early on in the game. I'm with you on the whole new scars for ME3.

Same here.

And I have to admit, I'm not very impressed with the ME2 "scars". At first I thought they looked pretty cool but then it just fell in with the superhero costumes of most of the squad members and it was just meh.

I want the ME1 scars back for my FemShep.

Modifié par Chignon, 02 octobre 2010 - 09:47 .

[Jagged Orchid]

Chignon wrote...

Same here.

And I have to admit, I'm not very impressed with the ME2 "scars". At first I thought they looked pretty cool but then it just fell in with the superhero costumes of most of the squad members and it was just meh.

I want the ME1 scars back for my FemShep.

Well think about it, I don't know about you, but I think my Alexandra easily picked up a few Scars between waking up and destroying the Collector base. Heck even between the Collecter base and wherever we start ME3. Obviously her old scars are gone, but I'd be beyond thrilled to come up with a story behind how she got her her scars

Modifié par Valagil, 02 octobre 2010 - 09:51 .

[Chignon]

Valagil wrote...

Well think about it, I don't know about you, but I think my Alexandra easily picked up a few Scars between waking up and destroying the Collector base. Heck even between the Collecter base and wherever we start ME3. Obviously her old scars are gone, but I'd be beyond thrilled to come up with a story behind how she got her her scars

 You're absolutely right. Though, my Noah probably got the deepest on Horizon.

[Captain Crash]

Iwakura-Lain wrote...

Yes, I Remember Me is one of the ME1 missions which touched me the most. I see it as being about making a real difference to people around you; not just about saving a nameless galaxy whole. Part of what I liked about that big TV interview is that it felt honest. And I think it's being held right after you successfully talked down Talitha (at least, it was so in my case). And I realized the great truth there: that being in the limelight is one thing (heck, every one-day fly artists are too); but to have it really mean something, and have it last, you have to be the genuine article. We see Femshep be in the spotlight, whilst Talitha dwelled in darkness; that's life. Yet Femshep does not squander her good fortune in vain. She uses honesty and kindness in her life, and so becomes a light herself. To Talitha, for one. Cardinal rule, though: no bull. You have to be real; otherwise it doesn't work.

I did 'I remember me' yesterday.   I only did it once before and forgot how emotional that scene was.   It was dark and powerful in showing with words the clear and obvious abuse Talitha had.  So much so you knew that she would never again have a normal life.    Really sad 

[sagefic]

@ jt walker - i like. those eyebrows always make shep look very sympathetic...like "i understand - it will all be okay."

@ jane/sable - noses are HARD in ME. i always had to go with the first one or two on the slider to make them look reasonable.

part of why i settled on my blonde femshep being a colonist was just for that "all the white people went to the terminus" reason. kind of like how there's such a disproportionate number of blondes out in US farm country - same idea.

@ chignon. that is lovely. it is making me totally nostalgic.

[ADLegend21]

"I remember me" gave me chills because I thought of what could realistically have happened to that girl...I was aiming for a renegade since it was a colonist sole survivor shep I was playing with but I couldn't in my right mind use the renegade options on that girl.

[ADLegend21]

jwalker wrote...

ADLegend21 wrote...

Hey Femshep fans!

hehe... what do they say about payback ?

Payback is Angela Shepard.

And next time in SB base, I want that footage, uncut :blink:




Edit: Great work AD!

you and me both. it'd take some stones for bioware to put that in there....and we all know how bioware lacks in the romance department.

[jwalker]

Thanks sagequeen, Sable , Valagil

It was hard making Hayley. It took 3 attempts.
I used ME2 char creator, so I get a face code, and then used the ME2 - > ME1 converter. I even played Lazarus project and Fredom's progress. I decided once I got on the Normandy. There you have several cutscenes, only then you really see if the face is really "working"....

[TheSweetGirl]

I don't know if you guys noticed this or maybe it is just me.



Does ME1 Shepard look older than in ME2? Some don't but some do.

[adneate]

TheSweetGirl wrote...

I don't know if you guys noticed this or maybe it is just me.

Does ME1 Shepard look older than in ME2? Some don't but some do.

It's likely just the differences between the two builds of the UE3 engine that Mass Effect uses. The first Mass Effect had a really terrible lighting system and some very low resolution textures, BioWare seemed a bit out of their element working with Unreal Engine. In ME2 the lighting system is radically overhauled and the average size of the textures is double or quadruple the size of the ME1 counter-part. For some Shepard designs the difference between ME1 and ME2 can be dramatic others not so much it just depends on how the lighting and texture systems interact.

This is my character Danielle in ME1


And Her in ME2


Not a big difference I suppose she seems a little younger in ME1 but It probably has more to do with the hair cut than the differences between the two engine builds.

[NanQuan]

I just wanted to say congrats to Rynluna for succeeding in getting Bioware's attention on behalf of femsheps. Kudos to you and your hard work



@adneate: the above pics are really cool. nice to see how a character changes between the two games.