Character Creation Tips (Sara Ryder)

Thanks.  I basically achieved what I was going for. If I could go back, I would make her chin slightly wider and longer, but overall I got the look I wanted. My goal in character creation is always to make a character that looks somewhat real. 

And I know what you mean about the creator. I think the Ryders have a touch of space flu, pregame. 

Thanks so much for the tips.  Very helpful!

Thanks for the tips, I'll try and put these to use.

I'd add that you'll probably love your face when you finally get it right, then when you start playing the game you will notice something you won't be able to live with. Happens to me in every Bioware game.

Mass Effect Archives is now running and lets you upload your face to import later. I don't know if it lets you then tweak it, but I would assume so.

masseffectarchives.com/en_US/heroes/mea

I've grown really fond of the face I ended up with and a lot of things in your list of tips were things I've been doing for FemShep as well. It would've been nice if we could get the face to move up and down as well to get more angles, because you're right about the face height. I made her face taller, but in the actual game I realized I didn't do it as much as I thought and went back.

You should start a new game and recreate that face and try again so you can upload the likeness and continue with the old one. Thats what I did when it didn't work the first time. 

I'd really like a CC tip to make a hot Scott. Codename: Operation Hot Scott

I haven't bought the game yet, but it'd be helpful for future reference. I'd like to make an attractive Caucasian Scott, not that men of color are unattractive (far from it!) - but I had a specific fanfic character in mind.

I think someone was influenced by "BS Beauty Advertising".

Female faces tend to not have had lots of "growth". Most women do not have heavy brow ridges, for example - despite how that can be useful in fights. But people talk about faces in terms of prominent features.

So, for example, people talk about full lips being attractive. Thus, botox (for example). But it's not really that women have overdeveloped lips. Instead, the surrounding skin did not develop so much (or, if it had, they would have thin lips). This pulls the lips out slightly and gives them a full appearance.

But you can't overdo this effect or you get an awful appearance. Most women train for years to look attractive, it is really that tricky: you do some physical exercise for your basic healthy appearance thing, and you do some additional artwork with makeup to compensate for facial issues. ...

Anyways, you can see this issue in the original post here - that flappy lip syndrome for example was probably because someone thought full lips were overdeveloped lips when actually its nearly the opposite.

Skin slider IS a mess
How can my character looks caucasic in the editor and from orange to Black brown in game?

Preset 9 can be considered bugged for how different looks in game.