Still, a 10 minute shop of a stock photo is really an unbelievable lazy way to reveal one of the greatest mysteries in the ME universe. Tali's character deserved more.
Maybe. But at least it isn't a bad looking model. I wouldn't mind it if they found and hired that model to do a better job of actually creating Tali's face with her. I don't hear anyone complaining really about 'space elf' so much as 'shop job from stock photo'.
Then again, didn't Chris tell us plainly that they did not intend for Tali to become a full squadmate until the uproar was loud enough? This was probably done as a rush to fill in all the expectations of a full squad mate romance.
In the end my opinion is:
Model and appearance = ok
Using a Stock Photo and absolutely no in game model = not ok.
I'll forgive them if they come out with an in game model appearance of her with her face visible.
You can render Mark Vanderloo, but you can't find and model this gal?