Character Kits (Jaal's kit is out)

You can definitely tell he's only 22, while Shepard was almost 30.

Yeah I think the ME3 engine was a bit more realistic when it came to human body shapes. Frostbite has a more toon-like feel.

Yeah....Shep's armor look better too. Maybe it's because Ryder and crew are explorers and everything, but idk....i'm glad you pointed that out, because while this game looks great, i couldn't help but notice that even the creatures in previous vids looked a bit.....plastic. While the creatures (at least from those in ME3) look and felt more organic.

I agree that it has something to do with the engine. Shep's face is crafted better than Ryder's as well....Ryder looks like a deer staring into headlights and his hair looks plastic like the oldschool Barbie "Ken" doll....Art design and direction goes a long way, but you also have to take into account of the engine that is being used. Which is a shame because i know initially they was talking up this frostbite engine like it was the greatest engine ever. If i had to choose, just looking at these two pics overall, i'd say just use the old ME3 engine, with some refinements and improvements for the xbox1/Ps4 systems.

That's it! omg, I couldn't name what I didn't like about it... toon-like. That perfectly describes it!! Smh.

Bring back the Unreal Engine. Leave Frostbite to DA and Battlefield. 

My reservations for the horrible marketing strategy aside, I've been an avid defender of this game from Day 1, and I'm still hyped for it. But there's no defending this, the proportions for the characters are laughable. I would even call it amatuer. This is not something that should come from a company as large and experienced as Bioware. 

It's an art direction (like how Deus Ex: Human Revolution went with tiny heads), character models and their proportions have nothing to do with the engine. Shepard doesn't exactly have the same body type or proportions as the guys in Gears of War.

Perspective seems a bit odd in these kits too, might play some tricks with the eyes. Looking at the three full front shots of Scott I'd say the "camera" was at height with and focused on the chest.

What people describe as being plasticy could have something to do with the engine though. Some weird "material" or shader, not that it couldn't be changed.

LOL! Somebody should tweet to them about Scott's.. proportions 
There is still some time, maybe they can improve it at least.. 

Shepard's head is actually too small. His body is 9 heads tall, when it really should be 8. His shoulders are also too broad compared to his head as well (should be 3 head lengths wide). Otherwise his proportions are OK.

Scott by comparison is 7.5 heads tall and a little under 3 heads wide. Scott's "out of proportion"ness is in his torso, which is too long, making his legs too small as a result

Huh.

Funko Pop Scott looks just creepy with that large torso and overly attached boyfriend expression.

I need to stop thinking about that black stripe\patch\detail\thing on Ryders'....lower back right now.
I don't want to know it's purpose and what would they use it for. I mean...I really don't.

Side note - aren't they supposed to use the highest possible details\textures and the most attractive angles in their promos? If that's the high\ultra, then I'm having hard time to imagine the low\medium.

What's that with the lighting and gloss? Scott looks sooo terribly plastic, practically a Ken-doll, nothing like the 'pretty face we've seen in one of those vids. And Sara has it the other way around, she looks prettier on her 'side view' picture, while most of the frontal randers make look almost ugly.

We've seen that stuff before (e.g. ME3 and DAI CC had lighting that was REALLY different from the in-game and cut-scenes), now the good question would be 'which angles are going to be used most during the gameplay'.

Hey, that's what our species does; no cause for embarrassment. We take food in from the hole at the top, process it, and then push it out from the hole down below. Earth-evolved vertebrate; that's what we do.