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[Sir DeLoria]

The art book one doesn't work - she's got no nose there and we've seen throughout the trilogy that quarians have noses. The starfish one isn't bad - not perfect, but hell of a lot more impressive than what they did.

Yes, the general face shape is heavily conflicting with the rough ingame model. Also notice how the body of the concept is actually less alien than the final product.

I liked the final look and also Deinon's pic, just wish they had given her an ingame model.

This BW promo art is great:



Shame they put more effort into an art work than the final ingame picture :/

[Mcfly616]

There's fan art where shes in her suit, but with her mask off....


She has matted down short hair and circuitry of some sort running up her face. I like that as well....

[Mcfly616]

Well that's assuming they have skin pigmentation like humans, they are alien so maybe their skin works differently.

Maybe....however, I wasn't the one that brought up skin-pigment or that it may not be conducive to their homeworld. You should take it up with Shotgun Julia...


I merely answered the OPs question. I'm not the one injecting random speculation into the thread.

[von uber]

I like this look

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Actually the more I think about it the more I like it. Just alien enough.

[Daemul]

I like this look

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Get rid of the eyelashes and the eyebrows and this is perfect.

[Cknarf]

I always liked this one.

http://img1.wikia.no...ali_ME_Core.jpg

[Baalzie]

I like this look

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Well. If You took away the "wet slimey" look of her skin and hair, since Rannoch is an ARID planet, they'd dehydrated and never evolved out of the wee pool of water they must have crawled out of... Not a single creature living in arid desert like environment has a "wet looking" skin. Not even one. So that kills the look entirely for me. Why someone thought "starfish face" when they imagine a race from a desert planet is beyond me...

Otherwise yeah I can totally see it. Especially since they (without biotic brainpowers) are seen as beautiful by Turians... And WAS seen as such already by the Prothean. And that look (sans slimeyness) lies close to the style of both those races... 
(Edit: That the look is TOTALLY stolen from Kerrigan in Star Craft 2 is not a bad thing really... It's a sassy look indeed...)

[AlanC9]

I thought the pic was supposed to look glossy, not slimy. Like nail polish.

[Sir DeLoria]

Not sure how those little horn-ish things would fit underneath the helmet though. I'd like the look if you got rid of the weird human ears and these appendages, they're just too similar to what the Asari and Turians already have.

I also agree that the slimy, aquatic look makes no sense for a species coming from a barely inhabitable desert planet.

[Noctis]

Not sure how those little horn-ish things would fit underneath the helmet though. I'd like the look if you got rid of the weird human ears and these appendages, they're just too similar to what the Asari and Turians already have.

I also agree that the slimy, aquatic look makes no sense for a species coming from a barely inhabitable desert planet.

I think it is gloss not slime

[Sir DeLoria]

I think it is gloss not slime

Doesn't make a lot of sense either way. Why would her skin be glossy?

[Reorte]

Not sure how those little horn-ish things would fit underneath the helmet though. I'd like the look if you got rid of the weird human ears and these appendages, they're just too similar to what the Asari and Turians already have.

I also agree that the slimy, aquatic look makes no sense for a species coming from a barely inhabitable desert planet.

I agree with the shiny, not slimy explanation. Also doesn't it say somewhere that the ears are about the least human-looking part of quarian faces? It also looks a bit like the face would peel off, which isn't nice. However those are to me relatively minor nitpicks, that picture doesn't look too human and is still overall attractive.

[Noctis]

Doesn't make a lot of sense either way. Why would her skin be glossy?

makeup maybe

[Sir DeLoria]

makeup maybe

Lipgloss sure, but not on the skin.

@Reorte Yeah, the the novels vaguely describe a Quarian face, saying it looks very human, except that the ears are small, pointy and non-human looking.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 Cthulu.

[Noctis]

Lipgloss sure, but not on the skin.

@Reorte Yeah, the the novels vaguely describe a Quarian face, saying it looks very human, except that the ears are small, pointy and non-human looking.

maybe is just the skin thats very smooth and shiny

[Sir DeLoria]

maybe is just the skin thats very smooth and shiny

Shiny stuff is pretty bad in the desert as well. But this debate is pretty pointless, as the artist probably just added it for visual effect.

[Noctis]

Shiny stuff is pretty bad in the desert as well. But this debate is pretty pointless, as the artist probably just added it for visual effect.

agreed

[Cainhurst Crow]

I still think this had the most potential for a love interest reveal.

 

[Han Shot First]

I think she should have been a bit more alien-looking. Obviously once the decision had been made to make Tali a potential LI, she was never going to be quite as alien in appearance as the Krogan or the Salarians. That just would have angered most of the players who had their character romance her. But in ME3 I think they strayed way too far in the other direction, by making the Quarians nearly identical to humans.

 

IMO they should have aimed for a middle ground between a human appearance and an alien one, so that she'd have just enough alien features that the Quarians would never be mistaken for humans and just enough human-like features that Tali's fans (or at least most of them) would still find the character attractive.

 

On that note I think this is probably the best fan concept I've seen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think it walks a fine line between not being so alien that the romance arc becomes weird, and not so human that the Quarians seem like they belong in Star Trek.

[The Sarendoctrinator]

I think these two pictures of Tali look cool, one without mask/hood and another with her face visible through the mask. 

 

 

 

[Farangbaa]

and since they haven't been on their world in nearly 300 years, but instead living every day in those suits on spaceships....that really doesn't matter.

Wouldn't be surprised if they got all pasty after numerous generations of living permanently within those form fitting suits.

 

You say that like 300 years are relevant on the evolutionary time scale of a creature that lives about a 100 years and starts reproducing in their 20s.

 

It's not. 300 years would be enough to warrant big ass changes in bacteria or other fast reproducing (i.e. days, not months/years) organisms, but for a species like the Quarians.

[Han Shot First]

I think the white pigment in the concept art would not be conducive to survival on their world. White tends to stand out and would have attracted predators during the early stages of their evolution.

 

I believe that concept was from prior to ME1, when Bioware didn't yet anticipate a horde of fans demanding that Tali be made a romance option in the sequel. Once Bioware made the decision to have Tali be one of the LIs, it was all but guaranteed that the Quarians would be a bit more human-looking than that concept art. 

 

That being said I think the devs went too far in the other direction and gave the Quarians too many human features, to the point where Tali now looks like a Star Trek alien. And by Star Trek alien I mean an alien that looks nearly identical to a human of caucasian ancestry with a one or two alien features slapped on. At the very least the Quarians probably should have been as an alien in appearance as the Asari or the Drell, which is admittedly still fairly human-looking. The Asari and the Drell have enough alien features however that they don't look like they share a common ancestry with humans.

[Wynterdust]

I agree with the OP, I've always found been a fan of the "starfish" version of her. Nice blend of human/inhuman and not unappealing to the eye. When I play the game, that's how I picture what she looks like.

The art that Nec posted is also another I've liked. I also like this one:

[TheOneTrueBioticGod]

The codex says Quarians have very similar bone structure and hair to humans, so I'd think of a bit like a younger, smaller, less regal Tolkien-esc elf. 

This would do to: