Template for a good-looking ryder

Lol, yeah, male preset 6 (default preset 6, no alterations) looks pretty rough.. He looks like any number of guys aged 18-35 in my area who have been arrested for meth possession/selling/production...

Well, my trio of lovely ladies (my taste), one for each race are below. Each of tem took me less than 15 min to create. The top one is mostly my kid's doing, but I love her and might use her as my 3rd F!Ryder. EDIT: It goes w/o saying there is no photoshop on anything I do. IC an barely crop stuff in Paint, lol:

Yeah he's my fav of the presets, as well as preset 1, but the rest are harder to work with and I try to keep the numbers the same as my Sara, but the preset for the Sara that matches your Scott is a not one I'm fussy for.

That is a very handsome Scott I must add!

I used preset one. She looks great on the skills page. Not so much in cutscenes for some reason

I feel like that was the point. And I don't want this to degrade into some sort of SJW bullshit talk but I feel like they really wanted to go full on for the average looking person. All the heads, both male and female are terribly average if not outright ugly. As many have noted, even scott and sara non custom heads are kind of dorky looking based off models that are someone most would find attractive. They gave scott that prepubescent scruff that is an excuse for five o'clock shadow and dumbo ears. They gave sara those freaky big eyes, a horse mouth, massive cheeks that make her look a bit like a freak of nature. They all look whacked with an ugly stick. And I don't think this is SJW stuff. I think this is they trying so damn hard to make the ryder twins painfully average that it hurts. I think that is what they wanted for them. They make them average with dialogue. They make them average with who they were before they left for andromeda. I mean they are kids of a genius father and a mother that seems to be highly intelligent herself. The father was with N7 for a while and managed to practically head up the AI right behind Jien Garson. These people have a lot going for them and look at what the kids amounted to. They didn't even bother with college from what is said. They stumbled about just barely even having jobs let alone careers. And this was all around 20 years old because they are 22 when we get them. That took a lot of work on BW's part to make them such underachievers for a father who created SAM and a mother who clearly was doing well for herself. 

Lol. I found bring features up the face mitigates that to a degree, and while a lot of the hairdos look oddly disproportionate, some can work. I sort of like my last attempt. Never ended up using her though. I have serious character creator attachment issues. 

I actually love the way my Ryder looks, I think she's pretty attractive yet normal and approachable. Animates well too (which is sadly an important thing in this game. ) She seemed far more real to me and less of a supermodel, but I know many gamers want super hot characters and trying to do that with the CC is kinda difficult.

Admittedly if you asked me to make another femRyder I'd probably struggle, took me 2 days to perfect this one so I'd probably hate anything else I tried to make.
Anywho there's a link in my signature if you wanna steal her face.

Maybe. But my point is they are made painfully average. It's less about the degree and more about how they are these lost average kids. One was staring at a mass relay and I'm not even quite sure what the other was doing. Following a research team around to prothean ruins? Daddy calls and they come running. Daddy probably would not have even called if he did not get some specific news that concerned him. They are average, probably not even that, and they are made to look and sound it at every turn. Then people are shocked that there are those that don't like their ryders. Average usually doesn't captivate audiences. 

As far as looks are concerned, I prefer average to supermodel. I just wish some characters looked more realistic and less cartoonish - default Sara being probably the prime example of this.

In regards to their achievements and 20 year olds with careers, you're trying too hard. And personally, I find it more interesting to roleplay a relatively normal person with flaws and struggles, rather than the nth special snowflake chosen one super kid.

More nice Ryders
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