Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

After having seen really great preset tweaks I wonder... how the hell did default Sara end up looking so derpy and creepy?!
Most of the results from players look a hundred times better. Maybe it's seeing faces in motion that makes them ugly? But then again Scott looks fine!

The CC seems best suited for making non-white characters. Despite it being so restrictive, the results can still be really good. Even if strong similarities between Ryders of a certain preset are inevitable. Then again most female Shepards kind of looked like they're related. This phenomenon was worst in DA2 where they all looked like Natalie Portman. I could get a pretty good resemblance to myself in ME2, but no Hawke looked even remotely like me. Didn't try to recreate myself in DAI. I highly doubt it would be possible in MEA.

Judging from what I've seen, the results are more diverse than the CC limitations suggest. It's still a huge step backwards, of course. And there is no logical reason not to offer an eyebrow color slider. Same thing as taking out purple eyes in ME3. No matter the studio, Bioware is keeping true to nonsensical design choices. Do they make potential employees take a test to determine their level of illogical thinking, and if they score high enough they hire, or what?

Yes, I was just wondering couple days why blond eyebrowns looked so bad and went with brown eyebrowns for my blond character instead.

You misunderstood. Not prerender - mocap. They used 20 faces (10 male, 10 female) to mocap face movements. These are the very faces we have in CC. And now it is impossible to make any changes to those facescans-presets without ruining animation in cutscenes. Hence, there will be no changes to CC we have now. (Still hope for at least better skin color variety and some skin texture)

Right, I see. I think you might be right about that. There are probably technical limitations from the way they decided to use the facescans and mocap that led to the limitations we see in the CC (which was obviously a bad idea in the first place — they just shouldn't have used facescans and/or mocap if it was going to make the CC so restrictive). And I also think you're right that any changes we see to the CC in patches might therefore be quite superficial.

But it still doesn't explain to me the mystery Ryder in the video. It doesn't look to me like it's simply an existing preset with the default Ryder's textures mistakingly applied. The whole face structure seems different than any one the presets we have. And it's too pretty and aesthetically pleasing to be a fluke glitch, at least in my eyes.

Just saw this:



Well, this is the guy that said DAI was primarily a PC game...

*KNEE slap !! Lol... Yeah that's all we got from from DAI, the color wheel.

Same, I had planned that I'd pick dark purple if that was option. The purple itself is just way too pastel-like to me.

so, have any devs responded to questions about the mystery Sara face?

ah.  well I hope we hear something from them soon.  they've got to be aware of it by now.  if it's a glitch/bug then they should just come out and squash any rumors of an update Sara model.

though it would be interesting to hear their explanation for it.

Someone on NeoGAF said that it's the face that's included on the disc, whereas the new face (the one with the blue eyes that's been shown in all the promo stuff) is added in via patch:
www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=232337072&postcount=3439

I actually like the default Sara Ryder as it is now, but the animations are off in several scenes and that doesnt help. It is why we are now associating that face with those terrible memes flying around. Still more presets and way to customise our characters could remove a lot of complaints about default Sara.

OHHHH! So mystery solved. Well shit.