Character Kits (Jaal's kit is out)

I was inclined to prefer #2, but then I realized it wasn't the face in #1 that was the issue, it was the eyes. Those flat, staring, horrifying, soulless eyes. O_O They make the whole thing look unnatural, even though the facial structure actually looks realistic.

That said, I've seen faces that do look like the one in #2, too. It's definitely idealized, but I wouldn't call it cartoony or unrealistic. Except that neck. What the hell.

Also, I wonder if they've de-boobed the female turians? There is no reason for them to have boobs. They're frickin' reptile birds.

They could always say that they're fat deposits, like a camel's humps. I mean, the Asari, the Twileks, or Orion Slave Girls aren't mammals either, but they all have very nice 'humps', you know.

Do we know if Salarian females look any different from the males? Have we met any female Salarians?

No, but I think it's pretty safe to say that an organism that's not part of Earth's evolutionary history shouldn't be described using Earth's biological categories. On the other hand Turians are sometimes referred to as bird-like, the Krogan are reptile-like, and the Salarians are amphibian-like (certainly the designers took those as their inspiration); so I guess Asari could be called 'mammal-like', though we don't know if they suckle their young, grow the embryo in their wombs, etc. They magically look like women; but has convergent evolution seen to it that they also function like women? Given their magical reproductive systems, they should be wholly different.

In the new game we might discover whether they have nipples, finally.

I wasn't sure of this, but Peebees' headfolds look slightly different from the Asari headfolds from ME1 and ME2? (also not totaly sure about the ME3 character model, but that's because the lighting and shading also messed up their appearance)
Somehow the headfolds seem wider and more flat, and the ridge in the middle became less pronounced.

From what I (rather strongly) recall, the cut-through used to show two mirroring 60 degree arcs, slightly placed apart but not so far that the two arcs could be filled to a full circle, and then a round ridge on top. And the arc was a very important theme throughout ME1 design, returning in almost EVERY asset in game, from character design through architecture to weapon design. It would really be a big shame if the headfolds were flattened and "organic-ated" just to save a couple of polys or whatever. The consistently recurring arc-theme, as subtle as it was, was really something that gave the previous Mass Effect games their own recognizable style.

Colour me very impressed with the texture work on Drack. Cool stuff.

Updated Sara Ryder

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Updated Scott Ryder


lvlt.bioware.cdn.ea.com/bioware/u/f/eagames/bioware/blog/andromeda/kits/ScottRyderCharacterKit.pdf

What's the difference between these and previous versions?

Wow Scott is a manlet.