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Pokémon Champions - Character Creation Chat

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Today we take a look at the 2026 F2P Pokémon experience, Pokémon champions!

I've already covered the last main series entry and Even legends Z-A, So let's see if this nre entry adds anything new!

Just as before, We're given 8 presets,

and if this anything like the previous games, these are out only body type and skin tone options. Next up...

Oh wow, they actually combined hair style into the main selection, and they have not asked our name yet, They even give us a full body preview, so if we don't like it we only have to go back one page! A very small, but welcomed improvement! Next up is hair selection:

YES! FINALLY, we get actual image previews!

We have 23 options here, all available from the start!

The usability and options so far are a huge step up from Z-A, and we still get some Quality of life features (like instant try-on)

there's a pretty good mix of styles, but not as much for lengths, I decided to go with this:

Next up hair color:

This menu feels a bit bloated, as previous games used a list style menu, But it still gives us color previews and is probably shown this way for uniformity. I feel like a better compromise would be to have a sample hairstyle with each color show, just having dots in such a big square feels a bit odd.

Jet black is gone, and that makes me said, most these colors are kinda muted, but there are a few bight greens and blues though. I'll be sticking with black for now. Next up is eye shape:

The preview images here are a bit harder to see, as they just have outlines, The label also goes over the character, rather than the selection. I think it would have been better to go with a floating label when you're selecting them, and the preview images could either be zoomed in, or show actual pictures of eyes. Also, it makes it harder to judge when glasses (one of the last items in the list) are enabled by default. Any ways, here's what they offer, compared with Legends Z-A Pokémon Legends Z-A:

Pokémon Champions:

I think each one of these is an improvement, from slight improvement (top left) to more dramatic (bottom right) The new bottom right 'relaxed' just looks so much more natural, than the previous 'droopy'. I really like the sharp and angled look of the 'catlike' one:

Next up is eye color:

And hey, they actually show preview images for this one, And they're sorted by hue!

They offer 2-3 shades of each color, Red, brown, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, gray, gold, black, and even some colored pupils. 28 options total. Next up are lashes:

Much like Z-A this is paired back a ton, But I think the actual styling on them here is much better and cleaner:

Next we have eyelash colors:

This uses the same selection as hair color, and Ash purple is back! Next up are eyebrows, we get not just actual preview images, But much wider selection of heights lengths and angles!

There even labeled, and I think they look much better, for example:

This is EXACTLY what I was trying to look for in Z-A! Think brows that were not too high, with a slight angel to them

Brow color is next, again, shared pallet with hair color:

Lip customization is back as well:

We basically have 6 main styles each with a 'Larger' And 'Smaller' Variant. For example, really enjoyed 'faint smile', here's how it looks in both:

I ended up going with smaller. The next menu is a little confusing:

It's a single menu entry to turn on/off lip coloring, but you can't actually change the color here, you need to switch tabs for that, I assume this could be used for 'lipstick styles' down the road with microtransactions.

Next up is lip color: (assuming you opted-in on the last screen)

A bit of an odd selection here, 'White' it cut-off at the bottom, I would expect a few more basic colors, they have some natural shades like Burgundy, brown and red, but even an Ice blue, but not more colorful options like that, so I'll assume, those are also reserved for microtransactions. Beauty mark options are more limited as well:

7 options this time, unlike the previous 8, but one of these 7 is actually a dual mark option, meaning we technically lost 2. The freckles option returns again 100% unchanged:

The last option allows us to add glasses:

there are only two styles here, again, I'll assume this is an opting to add paid options down the line:

However, they're literally the same, but one has nose pads. (i'll be going without nosepads, but the glasses look nice) And yeah, that's about it, here's the final look:

Overall, I think this character creator was my favorite to work with of the 3. Sure, It lacked the variety compared to Pokémon Violet, A lot of the options on offer are designed much more competently. But I enjoy working with an older base character more, as it fits more styles better. Also, the quality of life changes that extend past even what Z-A offered, made the overall experience much more enjoyable. Any ways, thanks for Reading!

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Pokémon Legends Z-A - Character Creation Chat

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Today we take a look at a newer Pokémon entry:

If you missed it Last time we took a look at Pokémon Violet, And while I did have fun with that game, I found some of the selections limited, and the menu's annoying to navigate. (Both are being played on an original Nintendo switch) Once again we're thrown into a simple menu with 8 presets, but...

(Top:Scarlet/Violet, Bottom: Z-A) The character designs look quite a bit more mature, I'll assume this is because we're working with a city setting, rather then a school. We still have the very limited skin tone options, but they seem to be shifted a bit too. Here's a comparison of the two darker skin tone options in both games:

Z-A seems to have a bit more saturation, and better shading overall. I still would have preferred a full skin tone picker, or even just more presets, but I think it offers a nice upgrade to what we had before. So I think I'll go with the second darkest this time. And...

...It looks like the weirdly divided menu is back. No option to adjust skin tone without fully backing out, even past your name selection. (again) Let's start with hair, since that's a dedicated section, (once again.) And wait, this is Just hair color? We can't change the style anymore? (Edit: You can unlock other hairstyles later in the gamem not here tho.)

15 options, and they actually preview as you scroll through! No more manually clicking on each one, and they even have a color preview too! And a 'Jet Black' Option for people who prefer darker than the standard black tone. And what's this?

You can actually zoom out your camera now!

Now let's start working on our overall look, First up Eyes:

Wow, a much smaller section this time around From 9 shapes, down to only four in this game..

..And I have to say, I'm not very impressed with the options. Personally I only like the top two, I think the bottom left could work if we could make tweaks. Even for a 'spin-off' game, I find this fairly disappointing, I'll be going for number 2 (top-right) For it's more confident and mature look. Next up is eye color:

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention in the last post, is that the 'looks' tabs were navigated with the Left/Right D-Pad buttons, such an odd choice, where most games in the last decade or more had switched over to shoulder buttons (L/R) as it makes switching accidentally when your scrolling much less likely, Z-A makes this change, and it's a welcome one. We have 26 options for eye color this time around, with a wider selection of 'variant' colors. For example if I wanted to go with green, I could pick from, Olive, Lime, or Emerald.

However the colors are sorted by saturation rather than base color, so all these 'greens' are fairly far apart. So while I live the wider selection of versions of each color, The navigation could have been better. The most ideal option would have been a color slider, But barring that, a simple color menu, with subcolors would have been nice. No pupal color options this time, just base colors. I ended up going with lime (middle) because it offers a good amount of green coloring without being overly bright or too dull for the look I'm aiming for. Next up is eyelash Shape:

And this menu is pretty spare as well,

I have a very hard time telling the first and second a part, And while the last game may have 'tripled up 'on the number of options, By only having 6, but with 3 variants of each. This honestly just looks like a single option from the previous game, with 4 variants rather than 3. Best guess, based on the description, and squinting really hard, the second one does look a little sharper than the first. So I'll go with that for the more subtle design, with a slight edge to it. Eyelash colors have been paired back as well:

15 options down from 21, This removes a lot of variants outside of the browns and blacks, other colors such seem to be replaced with the less intense 'ash' versions. I'd imagine this may disappoint those looking to go with a more loud and colorful look, but I still get my slight splash of color going with 'Violet',. Next up eyebrow shape:

Only one style/shape here, you can just choose the thickness. This is a tough one, I like the look of 'thin', But it just dose not seem to fit my character 'as is' Maybe it's the (static) hairstyle, or the fixed height of them, but 'average' just feels like the most balanced fit. Somehow my hair color got changed back to normal black, fixed it now.. Brow color selection is the same as hair color:

I generally prefer to match them. Beauty marks, is next, and...

This is also paired back significantly, only 8 options, and the dual marks have been removed. And I just realized, mouth shape and lip color options have been completely removed. It's really starting to feel like we're just giving a slight makeover to an already existing character.. but even if that was the case, lip coloring would seem like an obvious choice. They did bring back freckles though, but the options are the same:

Just like last time I'm going for #2 as I feel it kinda looks like they fade in and out. And now we've arrived at the final option...Dark circles?

It's a simple Yes/No option.

And I was hoping it would be closer to a bit of eyeliner or eye shadow, But it really just makes your character look tired, so I'll be opting out. So yeah, here's the final look:

And honestly, I was kinda expecting more options than Scarlet and Violet. Especially with it being a spin-off game, were less resources go into creating a massive world with hundred of creatures. But instead, seeing it not even just copy Pokémon S/V, but dial back just about every feature SIGNIFICANTLY, and outright removing the option to set your starting hair, is extremely disappointing! While the UI is still a bit rough, that has shown some clear improvement, But it feels like it's pretty much a step-down in every other aspect.

I had less fun this time, but it was still interesting to see all the changes. Thanks for reading!

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Pokémon Violet - Character Creation Chat

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It's been a while since I played a pokemon game, but after spending a few weeks in Pokemon Go and then a little bit of Pokemon champions, I found myself interested in Getting more free storage for pokemon home trying out one of the new game! Back when I last played, They did not have any form of character creation or customization, so I'm really interested to see what they have now!

From what I understand (outside spin-offs like pokemon go) Skin tones and outfits were introduced in the 3ds era. And sword and shield (2019) Introduced more detailed character customization with hairstyle and more.

I don't have any of the older titles, so let's just start with PokemonViolet Released in (2022) It's currently the newest main series entry:

Alright, So let's get started, you start the game, and after selecting your language, you're dropped right into the character creator. We start with 8 presets:

4 feminine, 4 masculine, and a variety of skin tones, I wish they offered a little more variety in how old they look, But we'll see if we can make some changes to get a more mature look. Next up:

It looks like hairstyle is it's own section, so lets see what they have. oh, uhh....

I do like that they offer a fair amount of options, (15) But why are they in a scrollable list? No preview images, and you can't even see them while you scroll. You need to manually scroll, and press 'A' on each and every one, if you want to see the options. Hair colors are handled the same way:

19 choices, no color slider, preview, highlights or blending. At this point, I can just rotate my character, no zooming, or lighting options, but I think this skin tone is a bit liter than I want for my design, so let's see if we can change that.. The next section covers.. 'looks' It's a single menu with... everything else..

Less descriptive options that you still can't easily preview, and... What no skin color options? I guess that means we really only get 4 choices? ... and there's no option to change it later, you literally have to back out PAST the 'set your name' menu if you want to get back to the presets For now I'll go with 'Long-bob' in Black:

We have 9 eye shapes, with a decent spread of looks:

Not all of them look childish We'll start with eyeshape 5, as it looks a bit more mature and confident. It may be a good start if we can find good lashes and brows to match:. Next up is eye color:

They're listed as 'color contacts' And you have all the basic colors here, as well as some special combinations such as blue-gray, and even some pupal colorings too. ..However these are not offered for every color, so if you wanted, say brown eyes with gold pupils your out of luck. Same for if you wanted normal blue+gold rather than light blue. Next up the eyelash menu is probably the messiest one yet:

But after clicking on them enough I figured out the Letter is the Style, and the 1/2/3 is the 'fullness' or volume' There are 6 in all, here's what they all look like at max (3):

The designs on some of these look a little blotchy, and TBH I don't see a lot of variety here, in a lot of other RPG's these would just be variants on 2-3 actual lash styles. I ended up Going with F2, as it looks a little flashy without being to over the top:

The Lash Color menu is equally frustrating to navigate:

You get 21 options here, and I appreciate the addition of lighter/desaturated versions of some of these colors. Many of the standard colors look a little too bright and stand out I was about to skip out and just go with black until I saw how nice, the 'ash' versions of some of the colors looked, normal violet looks 'too much'. But Ash purple on the other hand...

Just a dash of color, without being to distracting. Next up is brow shape, and... here we go again...

The same menu as before, I guess I should have expected this, Anyway, here are the options:

Not much in the way of shapes just your basic arches and bars with a few size and angle variants. I ended up going with D3,

But I really wish I could adjust the angle and height. Oh well, it still looks nice. Next up is brow color, it shares a selection with eyelashes, I tried going with ash purple again, but I kinda feel like that's a bit much:

So I'll be keeping them black,/

Nexup is mouth shape, and...

oh my god! 15 unlabeled options, not even a hint as to the shapes, widths, or even the overall attitudes. and some of them are literary the same just a bit wider, I can't go over all of them so I'll just say I went with 8.

It's a nice soft, small smile, with slightly more protruding lips. Next up, lip color:

Only 12 options here, some of the colors blend weirdly, like the above is supposed to be purple but it feels a bit too light imo. Also, like, what's with the tiny color selection? Above is pretty much all of them excluding 'pale pink, and 'coral'. I even considered going with Burgundy, but even that feels a little too bright:

I ended up going with brown, but even that looks more orange-y:

I would have preferred something a bit darker, but I'm pretty happy with this overall. Next up is beauty marks:

You pretty much just choose from a few pre-determined locations. But the last few options allow you to have two beaty marks. (Only in select locations) Next up is Freckles, (3 options)

All 3 look pretty cute, But they kinda collide with my beauty mark placement, so I'll move that.

I ended up going with #2 because of how it offers good coverage, and then fades towards the center of the face, #1 is cute too, but I wanted a bit more coverage, and #3 offers more than I was looking for. But I really think blending options would have benefited all three. And yeah that's all we really get for this game, but I'm pretty happy with how she turned out!

So yeah, some options were pretty spare, and some menus were frustrating, but I still had a lot of fun! Hopefully you had fun reading this as well!

Next time I'll be trying out Pokemon Z-A to see if it makes any improvements, but until then... Thanks for reading! Next CCC: Pokemon Legends Z-A

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Starsand Island- Character Creation Chat

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Back again, with yet another farming sim!

I've heard good things about this one, it's currently in early access! and I really like the art style! So let's see what we have in terms of character creation options! After your typical stardew style opening of seeing our character's mundane life...

We're treated to a cute little montage of their early life on a farm..

It's a bit odd that they did not make a version of this for both gender choices, but it's still a neat little touch, They start with a fairly typical 'character selection' option:

non labeled characters with clearly feminine or masculine designs, And the first thing we do is pick our outfit:

At this point I figured we'd not be able to edit our character's design at all, but apparently that comes later...

We don't have a ton of outfit options to start, the default is pretty cute, but I wanted to try something a little more to my typical style:

For bottoms, I was considering going with the 'paired' option a pleated skirt, but Idk.. maybe it's the style or length, but I think the pants look a little better:

Ok, I'm starting to think our character may look a little too trendy for the farm... XD

And actually these shoes are kinda perfect:

And NOW we get to actually design our character a bit. I'm really not a huge fan of picking an outfit before we design how they look..

But we get 6 hairstyles to start us out, and a proper color slider with a good selection of pre-sets!

(no option for highlights though :'(.......) Next we can adjust the eye designs, we get 8 styles, each with a starting colors that can be adjusted:

However, while they give us options to adjust both eyes individually, there's no simple option/toggle to use the same setting for both eyes, So you're stuck selecting the same pattern and dialing in the exact color tone you want...twice.

Eyebrows are up next..

10 style choices with no option other than color, buy they don't offer the option to sync up with your hair color... :'( Lashes are up next:

and Idk.. some of these just look a little odd.. Like what is this supposed to be?

You can also color them, but IDK, it's a little hard to see how they'll look without being able to set my skin tone first...

Next up lips:

8 options to choose from, not the most diverse selection, But we do have some fairly basic presets with a more glossy or matte appearance, but it would have been nice to offer more user customization, especially for a game releasing (early access) in 2026. I'd really like a few blending options and manual sliders for gloss/matte/metallic like some much older games have offered, but again, it's a farming game rather than a fashion game, and the presets are still 'solid'. Next up is face paint, and they have some super cute options like whiskers and scales...

Much, much like a few other games, they operate the same slot as skin effects such as freckles, so it's a little disappointing that we can't have both.

(And that I can paint my skin before coloring it) Ok, sorry, but this is all a little hard to judge without adjusting my skin tone first, so I'm going to jump ahead a little... Last option, skin tone:

A decent set of presets, all a bit desaturated,

But the color sliders give you more advanced options for dialing in your preferred look:

Next is options for blush, They don't really have color presets designed for this...

So, I tried my best to make my own, no blending options, so I tried to go with a warmer earthy tone that blends better with my skin tone. There are 11 patterns for, including some eye shadow like ones...

But they don't offer ones that are much wider or spaced out more on the cheeks, so your options for positioning are fairly limited. Next up is eyeshadow, and they have some really pretty options for these:

There are some really dramatic looks you can go for with the other options:

But after darkening up the lipstick a little, I think I'm happy with my final look:

so yeah, the creator was a little limited by most modern standards, but still a step up from other farming games, I had fun working with it, and hope it improves more when it leaves early access! Without it having to turn into a “fashion game”, the improvements I'd really like to see would be, -More streamlining of the menu's (make skin color earlier, and outfit last) -(at least)Blending or transparency options for the makeup/eyeshadow -Hair Highlights! -Option to zoom in/out during character creation -Just a little more variety in 'styles'/looks for starting outfit and hair.

Thanks for reading, see you next time!

Next CCC: Pokemon S/V

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My Time At Sandrock - Character Creation Chat

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Back with another farming sim!

I briefly tried their previous game "My Time at Portia" (2019) But I was not a huge fan for the character creation in that game:

The Art Style was not really to my preference, And it really felt like you were shoehorned into making a overly youthful character, Many of the default faces looked a bit unnatural, and did not allow for much tweaking:

On top of that the menu's were a bit of a mess:

And You could not even zoom the camera manually, but it would adjust based on the section your editing: With a lot of work, I was able to get closer to what I wanted, but I still felt held back by the options on offer:

as if I was tweaking pre-existing characters rather than creating my own.. Let's see if this new 2023, can impress me further...

And, right after booting it up, and I'm already liking this game's art style far more:

the age of the characters look a bit more ambitious, yet slightly more mature, and the human designs look far less odd this time around. The first page gives us the traditional gender toggle, however you can freely select between 3 masculine and 3 feminine voices. (or no voice) Also the male and female models have different outfits, that always slightly worries me this soon in, as clothing could end up being gender locked. (unconfirmed) Next up we have the main selection of creation sub-menu's and WOW, this is MUCH better:

It's by no means perfect, but it's pretty well organized, HUGE step up from Portia! First up is skin tone selection:

(We can also rotate our character and zoom in!) You have 5 presets, or you can use a color slider to select you ideal tone! Tho, the way it works is a little odd, 'secondary' is actually works more like your base skin tone, with the primary option blending in with it around your body contours.

So what I'll be doing is setting 'secondary' as my preferred skin tone, and making the 'primary' a little darker to add some nice blending and skin tone variety:

Next up is face shape, and much like the last game, the default options are... a choice:

I think the 1st and 3rd look the best,

But #1 seems to be the closets to what I'm looking for, so I'll use it as a starting point. The new options we're given for Face Roundness and Chin position really help me dial in a look, as I wanted to go for a slightly more angular face.

Next up is hair, and it's segmented this time:

It may seem like we get more variety this time, But in fact, only the top 9 options under 'hairstyle' are the actual main look of the hair, the other two sections are 'add-ons' And while that sounds like they're offering us a lot of customization, a lot of the choices just don't flow together very well:

I do like that you can adjust the lengths of the bangs and ponytail separate,

but the lack of a length slider for the base hair feels odd, especially with the total lack of longer hairstyles, On top of that, highlights tend to behave oddly on some hairstyles

(black hair, with purple highlights, supposedly)

And the fact that you can't manually blend the highlights of adjust the fade/length, means you kinda have to just pick something closer to your hair shade, unless you pick a style that works better with them

Next up are eyebrows:

The options here are a little misleading, 'Eyebrow shape' =Eyebrow rotation/angle 'Eyebrow Thickness' = Vertical Scaling 'Eyebrow Length' = horizontal scaling. There are no actual options to change the shape, style or color, They're colored based on your base hair color I believe.

Next up Eyes:

(I wish I could zoom in more...) We have 7 patterns here, I stuck with the first one, as I wanted a more natural look. The coloring labels are a little confusing, 'EyeColor' is basically coloring for the top half of the iris, and 'Eye highlight color' is for the bottom half. So while you can try to blend two different colors, I think just doing with a lighter tone and lower contrast for the 'highlight' looks very nice. We can further dial in our eyes look with this collection of sliders:

I tried to go for a slightly sharper design for a more mature look, So I made them slightly angled and more oblong to remove some of the rounding. Next up are ears:

Only two sliders here, 'size' adjusts both the x/y axis of the ears and height adjusts the position. I could have gone for a few more, like angle or sharpness, But for now I just moved them up a bit to line them up better with the nose. And speaking of noses, next up:

you can adjust the bridge and tip of the nose, but it's really hard to see much variance elsewhere, I wanted to go with a bit of a sharper/angular nose, but the tip was always very rounded. You also can't adjust slope. So I settled on making the nose tip a bit smaller, Next up is the mouth:

This selection also feels a bit spare, much like with the brows, we don't have any styles to choose from, just some slight scaling, and positioning. However strangely even if you max out all the sliders here, the lips will be much smaller than some presets. For my design, I made the mouth a little less wide, and made the lips slightly taller.

Next up is facial hair:

And we've run into our first gender locked option! This is fully locked out if you're designing a female character, I did not plan on using this myself, but it's still kinda sad to see artificial restrictions like this, even in 2023.

Face Tattoos are next:

These are mostly scars and such, but they do have a nice freckles option, and all these choices can be freely colored, but they they don't offer any additional adjustments, and you can only pick a single choice from the list. So I went with some freckles in dark brown, as I think they go well with the skin tone I chose.

Next up is eye shadow:

They only have 8 patterns here, and no blending options, Again a nice step up from the last game, but it still feels kinda restiveness, adding any color almost instantly feels like “too much”! I even tried adding my skin tone as a 'highlight" to it (shown above) And that helped, but it's still pretty intense!

Blush went much the same way:

still no blending, so I went with a darker red, mixed with my skin tone, and highlighted with my skin tone, it's still a hair too noticeable to my eyes, but I think it looks good enough for now. And the last option is lipstick:

We only had 5 options, and no finishes or cute patterns, so I just with with a maroon shade, with full coverage.

And yeah, that's it! Here's our final look:

And again, I wish they let us preview with normal game lighting..

Overall, while it still could use improvement, I had fun working in this new character creator, it's a huge step up from portia, and (aside from the makeup/eye shadow) I'm actually satisfied with how this turned out! Thanks for taking the time to read this, I'll see you in the next chat!

Next Chat: Starsand Island

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CODE VEIN II - Character Creation Chat (part 2)

[Previous Post] [First Post] [Next Post] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a continuation of my CODE VEIN II - Character Creation Chat if you have not already read part 1, you can do that here! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next option we have to work with you don't actually see in many character creation system, we can edit the eye highlights:

again, we''re given dozens of patterns to work with, we can change the colors, and even the intensity and position! But for some reason, changing this effects one of my eye colors as well, as you can see above. One of my eye color slots was overwritten with my highlight colors:

I can change it back without effecting my eye highlights, but it's kind of an annoying bug.

Next we can adjust how the eyeball looks, but the patterns and colors are fixed, so we just choose one of 32 presets:

(A little disappointing, why only these colors?

And the last eye options we have cover the shape and position of the iris:

There are a few interesting options here, but I every time I tried one of the shaping tools the iris just looked kinda distorted, so I left these alone. Next is the options for facial features like makeup and lipstick, Starting with lashes:

No settings here, just a mess of presets covering a few different lengths angles and volumes, I really feel a small handful if presets with sliders for adjustment could have been a better alternative, But the selection here is still fairly good. The next option is for nail polish, and I wish we had a dedicated camera for this, the game does not even, zoom/scroll to the hands.

We can't adjust the nail style or length, but we can pick from a few patterns. Next we can adjust the colors for the nails, but it dose not seem to be working right for me:

Next up is eyeshadow and lipstick, surprisingly no patterns here, Just colors and opacity:

Next up we have an option for scars/freckles and other skin effects:

As well as a dedicated option for 'gold filled scars':

Neither offers any color/blending options, just positioning.

Next up is 'face paint' and here we get 3 layers and this seems to be here the actual makeup and lipstick options hide:

There are quite a few shapes and patterns here, but only one for 'blush', but you can use the 'depth' sliders to adjust the transparency on each layer:

Next up are accessories, odd that this comes before clothing, so I'll come back to this, but I did feel the need to remove the headphones as I was tired of looking at them.

I replaced them with this cute little hat, and I like that they let you change out the pattern too, we'll look at positioning when we get back here, for now on to clothing... We have 21 outfits to try on:

And the quality seem to vary quite a bit...

The last one (not shown) is literally just a bath towel... But the neat part is you can actually customize these outfits!

You can swap out parts you may not like, or remove them entirely! And you can adjust the colors/patterns of individual components. However, it looks like the amount you can adjust varies quite a bit from outfit to outfit:

But I still like that I can tweak them as I was not a huge fan of the necklace that came with this outfit, so being able to turn it off was nice. Now back to accessories, After changing the hat color to better match the outfit, I went looking for better necklaces, and found this:

I then recolored it with a metallic red to make it stand out more, and made the chain a golden color:

And using the accessory editing mode, I was able to scale down the necklace so it looked less like it was floating on her neck.

There are a ton of accessories to try out, but I settled on just adding glasses with a chain:

And after coloring scaling and positioning, I think she looks pretty nice!

And here's the final look:

And here are a few In-game screenshots:

Overall, I had way more fun working with the outfits and accessories than the actual designing of the character, the menu's were poorly labeled, and some features were so oddly sparse while others were loaded with presets, and I wish the sliders offered a wider range of tweaks. Overall, I had fun, and I'd pretty happy with how the character turned out! Thanks for reading, see you next time!

#code vein #code vein 2 #demo #create a character #notstylesavvy

CODE VEIN II - Character Creation Chat (part 1)

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Hey gey's it's been a little while since I've done one of these, Today we're looking at the character creation demo for Code Vein 2! Now normally I try going into these blind, but when I went to store page to download I was greeted by this fairly noticeable negitive rating:

In general, it looks like people see this as a downgrade from the first game. I don't remember if I've covered the first CV game, if not maybe I should look at that next... Alright, let's get started...

They give you a short little (narrated) story segment to introduce you to the world. They then start you with a VERY zoomed in look at both the masculine and feminine character designs:

You're then able to look at 16 presets for the body style you selected:

I started with the top right,

but she looks a little more boxy than I was looking to go for, so we'll make some changes along the way. Next up is Physique:

The layout is a little odd, here we have some basic height and width:

But the adjust he whole body at once, just slightly stretching or squishing, not really letting you adjust very linearly.. Here are the maximum settings for width:

Barely noticeable if you ask me.. But we do have more options we can adjust... The poorly labeled 'Base Appearance' allows you to (slightly) adjust the weight distribution:

The above shown two are supposed to be polar opposites, but again, the change is VERY hard to tell. 'Edit Base Body' actually gives us a good number of sliders, but sadly they're all as ineffective. Just for fun, I tried maxing out every other slider, normally that would create a monstrosity, but with the extremely limited variance, they still look fairly similar...

I started with a slimmed down (-8) version of the neutral body frame (base appearance), and chipped away at some features slightly, while keeping the shoulders broad, to attempt a slightly 'softer' look.

I'm not SUPER happy with it, but I think it's the best I can manage. Next up, is skin tones:

They have a better selection than some other Japanese games. A good selection of browns, but some of the darker 'chocolate brown' skin tones don't seem to match the preview very well...

Switching to Real game lighting does not really help much either:

Next up is hair: It's clear this is where a lot of the budget went!

We have 110 options to chose from with a wide range of style and lengths, from buzzcuts, and cute short style, bobs, and pigtails, to longer back length hairstyles as well! However, the adjustment sliders are just as disappointing as before:

Hair volume adjusts the height of the hair, and you have sliders for the main part of the hair, and bangs, but both can only be adjusted slightly. I do like the highlights options however:

56 patterns to choose from, and options to change their positioning! Next after adjusting the hair and highlights color, you have an option called, 'curl', I assume this is for straight hairstyles as none of them showed up on my character:

And lastly 'hair shine' makes your hair color and highlights just a bit brighter:

Next up is face editing, and we have 9 shapes:

Sadly you can't go back and tweak the face shape later, just the eyes, so I hope you like one of these:

Next up, we only get a few sliders for the face:

You can make slight tweaks to the eyes angle, size and spacing, And you can adjust the ears two, (not like you can even see them!)

You also have 7 'teeth styles'

The shark teeth are pretty neat, but I went with hangs instead.

Next up is eye lid-edness?

You can adjust them independently, but they really only offer open glaring, or closed. Originally I was going for more of a youthful and cute look, but since this is a souls-like game, maybe a more serious, yet elegant look would fit better... The final section for face is called "eye to mouth balance"

Basically you decide how far apart the eyes and mouth are. We have 21 presets here rather than just letting us adjust this manually. Next up are eye brows, and we have far too many options to count, well over 100..

But since we're stilling with an anime inspired look, most are fairly basic, they have a few that don't look like simple lines, however some look a bit scribbly

And I could not find any in this style with the arch, fullness and angle I was looking for. Going into the setting for this, we have some options to adjust the brows position and angle (+/- about 45 degrees) as well as the spacing, 'thickness' however just kinda stretches the eyebrow texture vertically, rather than adding to it or making them more dense,

You can also have your character have one eyebrow raised at all time, I'm not sure what styles this would suite, but it's there... (you can also have eyebrow colors separate from hair color, but I left them synced) Next up are the eye settings:

Starting with the pupils, you have dozens of patterns ranging from more realistic to very dramatic, and you have dozens of color presets to pick from, or you can even set your own colors:

OOPS, Ran out of image slots, Check out Part 2 for more!

#code vein #code vein 2 #demo #create a character #notstylesavvy

Making my dreams come true! The First ever MODEL Debut3 Mod! (wip)

I actually repurchased md3 on steam for the express purpose of learning how to mod it. (yes, I know md4 has dark skinned options, and I plan to a CCC on that soon) But, I still really enjoyed MD3, and spent a lot of time wishing I had more skin tone options, so after spending many hours looking into how to make texture mods and inject them into the game, I finally got this proof of concept:

As you can see it still needs work, and I'm not sure how to adjust the highlights, but I still think it's a good start! If anyone else knows about modding, textures, mipmaps and overlays, feel free to reach out! I do plan to release this, if I can get it working properly! (PC only, easy to install, but can't be ported to switch sadly)

#fashion game #notstylesavvy #md3 nicola #md3 #model debut #model debut 3

learn-to-draw-challenge

Art Recap 2025

It's been quite the year, I still don't know what I'm doing or where I'm going, but I had a lot of fun! And I hope to improve even more in 2026!

cidthesquid

If you've been wondering why I have not posted much here, it's because I've spent a lot of time trying my hand at art, over at @learn-to-draw-challenge

Sims 3 - Cid

I played some sims 3 today, here's my character, I learned from sims 4, that these games have a TON of options, so I don't think I'll do a CCC for this, but still wanted to share my design!

And here are the traits/stats:

Well, that was a lot of fun, Thanks for reading!

#sims 3

Also want to mention that when people send asks, they already get the option to send it anonymously. I didn’t select it because I didn’t mind, but no need to revise your posts. <-

Oh, sorry for taking so long to respond, apparently Tumblr did not notify me of any of the messages, I just saw them today when I miss clicked on something else, I've started reading through them now, however, and thanks so much for the encouragement! it means a lot! I'll keep posting about design/fashion, but it I'm still a little burnt out on style savvy, afer playing two full games back to back within a few months. (and styling star has a lot of reused outfits) But don't worry, I plan to keep at what I'm doing now, but I've also been learning to draw (slowly) so that's also started to each up a fair amount of my free time:)

Character Creator Chat: Palia!

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hey People, we're back with another farming game!

I tried this for a while when it was still in beta, but was not super impressed with how it lined up with it's 'Farming MMO' claims. But now a few years later, And we'll be evaluating it's character creation options, so let's see what we have to work with.. Some goddess-like voice says "so, where should I start?" And we're given the first question:

And admitidly, at first I was not 100% sure what these were referring to. I figured it could mean like top heavy/bottom heavy, or even feminine/masculine, but I just did not really feel these icons give you enough to go on, lucky clicking on one, will generate a preview:

And yeah, okay. it looks like they were going with the 'restroom' style icons. After clicking confirm, we're dropped in to the character creator proper:

We can change our body type at any time, and while this does not limit our options, the preview icons actually change to match our choice, that's pretty neat!

Anyway, we'll go with the more feminine body style, Now to get started with the face shape, We have 18 choices here:

...Not the most variety for a fantasy style game, especially considering this affect every single aspect of the face, overall shape, along with eyes, nose and mouth, and even eyebrows! With so many facial options being lumped together, it was a little hard to pick, but I ended up going with the second to the last:

Mainly for the 'Cool' and 'mature' vibe I think it gives off, without being 'overly serious'. Skin tone is up next: ...Again, these really need to have a 'preview' option using the game's natural light.

(Above is the one I chose) The selection is not the worst here, but the range on offer seems a bit skewed toward the middle of tones,

Both the lightest (left) and darkest (right) don't really offer a range that I've seen from people in real life have. Also this is a fantasy game, where other characters have non-natural skin tones, why can't I have purple skin? Next up Eye color:

Again, a fairly expected selection, I would have loved a few 'in-between options' even if they did not give us a full color slider, but again, not a bad showing. Next up is voice:

This is also not gender locked, they offer about 5 masculine voices and 5 feminine ones. TBH many of the masculine voices felt a bit more aggressive than I'd like. And some of the female ones a little on the silly side, but it may have just been the preview lines they chose, (I ended up going with voice 4) Next up is Hair: 48 choices, and the 'chunky clay' style, makes some of them look a little .. odd. (But some look better than others:)

(Also, some of the preview pictures seem to have a different lighting/model style?)

They have a lot of options, but like the one above, some of them have kind odd 'twists' to them, so I found it hard to find a lot of my standard go-to choices. You also have the option for changing the hair color, eyebrow color,and the highlights color and 'Color patterns?'

But again, I feel the color selection is too limited, and without the brightness and blending options, it's really hard to make them look the way you want. ...But seeing how this is listed as the 'back to basics' classic hair color pack, this may be one way they plan to monetize in the future, this is a f2p game after all.. Strangely, the Color patterns option works in an unexpected way...

It just selects what part of the hair is colored, For this hairstyle 'Pattern 1' is a fading highlight, 'Pattern 2' has parts of the front colored brightly And 'Pattern 3' only colors the hair tie? I'm sure other hair styles work a bit different, but it's an odd choice to say for sure..

Next up is 'Face Coverings', I expected this to be masks...

And maybe those will be options in the future (dlc), but for now, it's just facial hair. 9 choices here, no adjustments other than color, with the same limitations as hair color.

Next up is Face Accessories:

We have a few glasses option, I'm a sucker for some stylish slim rimless ones like these, so we'll give them a shot. I would have like to see more styles, like some slim frame ones, or at least other shapes to better complement other face shapes, but again, it's not the restrictive 'Glasses? yes/no' that even some premium games offer

And after that we get to pick out the starting outfit, Let's look at the tops:

I have 33 options to choose from, and it seems like the styles are kinda like fairly eastern inspired, with a fantasy twist. Let's look at the bottoms first before deciding:

Ok, so arguably even less options here, (but again, f2p makes sense) Mostly simple pants, and shorts, with two skits options. Some are pretty much the same as others, but with a slight pattern on the sides. And sadly these have the shoes/boots bundled in, meaning less we can chance. Although, it's been a while since a game let me use thigh high boots, so let's see if we can do something with that. I think this looks okay:

each of the outfits is clearly marked as part of a 'set' so I assume there will be lots of DLC, and you can actually change the color, however you pretty much can only select a 2 color palette, ..And not all the outfits have the same color palettes, so this can make coming up with combos a little difficult, Additionally, the palette options don't seem to make the most sense, for the top I picked Pink/Purple, but the designs are feels more like shades of purple with gray. And for the bottoms I picked light gray/gray, and it came out making the boots purple?

This ended up working out for me, as I think the 'purple' bottoms looked like it had a little 'too much' purple. Next up is Eyeliner. I was excited to adjust this, as I felt like the starting look was a bit more intense than I wanted, however:

..Turns out, you can't actually change the stock eyeliner, anything you add just goes under it:

There are some nice eye-shadow options, but the fact that these are locked behind color sets too is, is kinda frustrating:

But it looks like they're paired with lipstick colors, so sounds like you may not need to buy a color you like multiple times to use in other areas on the face. Lipstick is up next:

You have a few application presets, but only a few patterns, But aside from setting a fixed color, you can tweak the transparency 'application' and glossiness in 10% increments. I would have preferred 5% for a bit more granularity, but this still offers a decent range. Since there are no clearly defined 'sub-categories' for this, I don't expect there will be DLC 'patterns' in the shop at the moment, but I hope more get added as free updates And the lats option is blush:

This is where I REALLY wish the character creator offered an option to zoom in. But just we have the same options as before, same colors, 'application' and 'gloss', we have a few decent patterns, including some fun extra ones, for the last two, but I really wish I could adjust the placement or size myself... But yeah, that's it, here's the final look:

(you can go back and make changes later in-game)

And Cid-TS is born!

And yeah, I guess it's because of the more simple graphical style, but they actually look pretty similar in-game! I also learned that in-game were canonically human, so I guess no alien skin tones makes sense, but I think at least one shade darker and lighter would be nice! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any ways, final thoughts... I thought the outfit options were pretty good for a f2p game's starter offerings, but I did find some other options a bit too limiting. Aside from a few minor glitches, a lack of manual zoom and lighting options were really the main point of frustration. But I also hope more skin tones are added down the line. Anyways, that's all for today, thanks for reading!

Next CCC: Code Vein 2!

#create a character #palia game #palia oc #notstylesavvy

Shiki and Mikiya - Kara No Kyoukai

I finished up a new drawing practice today.My first time doing fan art!

I started by downloading and modifying this Pose from CSP:

I traced the silhouette, and reworked it quite a bit to fit these characters, You can see the time-lapse here:

I'm still pretty new to drawing, but I'm looking to get better each day!

#Mikiya #shiki ryougi #garden of sinners #Youtube #空の境界 #Kara No Kyoukai #kara no kyokai

Character Creator Chat: Baldurs Gate 3!

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time to play a game from one of the oldest 'Create your own character' world. From the D&D Universe, today we look at BG3!

While I did not cover it in this video, I was kinda disappointed by the options in Larian Studios's previous title, "Divinity: Original Sin 2" While it's a very cool D&D style game, I found the creation aspects extremely underwhelming even for a game of it's time. (2017) They're a pretty small studio compared to most, But I can't help but feel the options of human, elf, dwarf or lizard with undead variants of each felt just a bit too limiting, And I was not a huge fan of the chosen art style: (DOS2 - Definitive edition)

And then when you got around to choosing your base, there addition options were even more lack luster:

Only 5 options to adjust? and one of them, 'facial features' is just locked out for elves? I know This is the type of game where you don't see your character close up, but I was still a bit disappointed. So lets see what they could manage 6 years later, a bigger budget, and the d&d license!

So the first thing I noticed(aside from the models looking much nicer) Was a HUGE improvement was Significantly more Race options:

Sure a lot of them fall into similar categories, Human-like, Elf-like, small-folk, and reptilian. But I think the dragon born are much more visually interesting than the previous game's lizard, and even the similar sounding races still have a fair amount of visual contrast:

(Elf/Drow/Half-elf) (Halfling/Gnome/Dwarf) I'm going to attempt to recreate one of my ff14 characters this time around, So let's try to make Lilith!

I know BG3 has much better options for tweaking your characters look So lets see if we can capture Lilith's cool and confidant air! And this time after clicking 'Edit Appearance' we're greeted with more tabs than the last game had options:

I'm starting with the last one 'horns' first, this time. I think toning this down is essential to nailing the look. Despite the more flashy Halloween look of the outfit shown above, As I've started to white a bit more character lore for Lilith, for potential RP, I've started to write her as a bit more introverted, So I think the large stock horns may be a bit much, My ideal interperation of the character is she like to “look nice” but at the same time, if she's around a lot of new people she would not want to draw a ton of attention to herself. So while I could not match the xaela horn look or color, I think this is a pretty good compromise:

Next we move back to the first tab, and we get a good look at the 'general options':

We have body type presets, gender identity (w/ a non-binary option!) We can choose from 8 voice presets (4 feminine, 4 masculine) 6 Face presets, and Skin tones, scaring and more! Let's start with body types: (1/3/2/4)

One and 3 are more feminine and 2/4 are more masculine, and 2/4 look to be mostly just 'larger frame versions of 1/2. I'll stick with 'type 1' for now, I do like the 'stronger look' of '3', But I think '1' matches ff14's limitations

Next up is Face Presets:

This seems too kinda lump together face shape, ear size, eyebrows, lip shape and tons more into just 6 presets, with no options for advanced editing, still a HUGE step up from DOS2, but I wish we could just dial in a little more for maybe the brows, or eyeshape, so we could add in a bit more personality, I'd imagine someone wanting to make a 'cuter looking' character for example may leave a little disappointed. I'm sticking with the second preset as it seems to offer the more mature (early 30's) and mildly serious look I'm going for. For skin colors, you're givena good number of presets, based on your characters race, with the option to unlock this setting for dozen more colors:

But sadly there's no color slide, or brightness/saturation adjustment, so you can't dial in Any color you want, but they still give you a ton of variety, But I like the look of Red4, so I'm sticking with that. They have a number of options for scaring too, But there all a bit (pardon the pun) in your face,

I may have opted for a more subtle one, But since they don't even have a transparency/blending sliders, I'll be going without.

The last few options are pretty self-explanatory:

"Maturity" is a simple wrinkle slider, Freckle quantity and intensity allow you to give your character more wrinkles, and Vitiligo Pigmentation, allows you to give your character variations in their shin color. Next up is body art! Tattoos and piercings:

There are a few different tattoo patterns, There's all a little on the intense side, but you can adjust the color and transparency, Though only 62 colors are offered. a good number for sure, but I feela simple RGB slider would have been a better choice. The piercing options are also presets, a lot of them are a bit on the aggressive side:

But there are some a bit more on the subtle side, I ended up liking the 'Lappis Studmuffins' more than the rest, But wish I could remove the chain:

Next up is Eyes:

Pretty much all you get here is a heterochromia/dichromatic eyes option, and colors, and with 'all eye colors' enabled, above shows all the options. Next up is makeup:

We have 16 patterns to choose from, I find the styles of offer a little limiting, a few of them feel a bit heavy on the contouring (I think it's called) You can set the eyes and lips separate, each with their own color selection, along with intensity, and option for a gloss or metallic finish:

Next up is hairstyles, And they really went all out for this:

87 different options, with a good selection of styles and lengths, You can set the base color, highlight and even graying, You can also dial in an intensity level for the highlights, but not the start/stop point, fade or any other settings:

Greyng also has an intensity option, you can use this for a secondary tint, that encopreses all the hair, such as setting this to darker colors to get a normally unavailable 'jet black' option

Facial hair is also an option with 18 options for styles:

a good mix of mustaches and beards, with a simple color and greying (blending in grey/white) option

And yeah, that's it, horns would have been last for us, After going back, and trying some new hair styles, here's what we have:

I think it's pretty close given the limitations.

----------------- So final thoughts: Overall a HUGE improvement over their last game, and still not bad for a top-down RPG overall, There are still areas I think could be improved without using up a lot of resources, but I'm still pretty happy with how she turned out, and I had fun working with this character creator! Thanks for reading, and see you next time!

Next CCC: Palia!

#bg3 #create a character #baldurs gate 3 #ccc

Style Savvy Screenshot Remake!

I went back and remade one of my style savvy screenshots in krita Here's the starting point:

I made this time-lapse showing the whole process,

This was made 99% using vector art! only the eyes and background are raster. I'm still pretty new to this, but I've been having a lot of fun! Here's the final product:

I know I still have a lot to learn, and my shadows could still use a lot of work, but I really enjoyed it, and am happy with how it turned out, so I figured it was worth sharing! If for some reason you want to read my liveblog of designing this, you can find that here!

#create a character #vector art

Character Creator Chat: PSO2 NG!

[Previous Post] [First Post] [Next Post] Wow, it's been a while since I've done one of these, but were back! Lets take a look at the character creator for Phantasy star online 2:

The first thing you need to to when starting is to select a server (ship) I've played this game before, and used up all 3 of my f2p character slots

(And wow, my design choices were...interesting back then XD)

anyways, I've removed all her items, and now we'll delete her and start anew: ...and this is when I learned, there's a 24 hour wait for your character to actually be removed, and the slot will not open until that time:

Great for preventing accidental removals, but kinda annoying for me right now. So I'll be back tomorrow... ----- Ok, well it's been a few days, but now I'm back, let's get started!

Our first choice is if we want to enable the cell shading feature:

I do think it looks a little better, but as it's just post-processing and PSO2 did not originally include it, we'll go without. We have a 24 presets with a bunch of style for the games 4 races:

And while there are 4 races, they're pretty much split into two groups:

Humans, Newmans and Deumans are in the 'humanoid' categories, able to wear all standard fashion without issue, However, Casts are syentic lifeforms, and have to 'adopt a human form' that changes their appearance in order to wear humanoid outfits, Additionally, I believe their limited to wearing full (pre-made) outfits, rather than being able to mix and match with outfit parts. Instead of being able to use outfit parts, they have mechanical looking cast parts exclusive to their race that can change up their look. These races also had specific abilities back in original PSO2, But in New Genesis the races are functionally identical. After selecting a preset, you then have the option to just stick with the preset, or to move on to a detailed or simplified character creation process: (Left Simplified / Right Detailed)

The 'Simplified' option still offers a fair amount of options to adjust, As well as warping for body proportions. But the 'detailed' section offer extra sections to work with as well as sliders for precise adjustments. We'll be going with Detailed today, And with how many options I see this may be another 2-part post. So let's take it from the top, starting with head options:

Starting with the face:

We have three pages of presets comprising both humanoid and cast style faces, with both feminine and masculine styling. You may notice that some of these look a lot more modern than others,the leaner ones with the 'N' in the bottom right cornder are ones made for the game's 2021 refresh 'New Genesis' (NG) While the other ones are designed for the base 2012 Phantasy Star online experience. Since people could import their character, and can travel between both versions of the game, all the legacy cosmetics and character features are kept. However, using I believe there are some restrictions, such as using a pso2 body or face will restrict you from trying new eyes or other cosmetic features from NG, and if you put an original PSO2 outfit on a NG body, you'll be switched to a compatible base pso2 body It's a little confusing, so we'll just stick to all NG stuff today. (I picked the head model highlighted above) I'll leave the head morphing alone for now, Lets check out the hairstyles:

Wow, is that it for starter NG options? even after multiple years? only 10 choices with 4 of them being pretty cast exclusive. Sure we still have legacy hair to consider, but the quality is lower:

(It's more noticeable on some compared to others) So I'll stick with the one of the left. Next up is neck options:

I selected black hair with purple highlight, no idea why it's pure black Anyways, I tried adjusting the 'neck area' to make her neck less slanted to the left. But all this really did was resize her head. The Neck angle slider, was surprising more of a posture modifier, as it clearly adjusts more than just the neck:

I ended up going with about 75% up for a more 'confident' and less 'edgy' look. Next up is eyes:

Again a fairly disappointing turn out for NG options, and since we're sticking with a NG face we're locked out of the classics. I think this far right one is okay, and I went with the darker shade of green shown above. Next up is eye detail:

I actually tried using the morph this time and had a little trouble with it, you can't simply move each point inidually to get your desired look, each point directly effects it's parallel point, so you can't simply scale or reshape one side. I like the eyelid position option, as you can adjust them from fully open to fully closed, but until we finish up the eye details, I'm not sure what I want to do with these, so I'll come back to it. Next up is eyebrows:

This selection is also a little spare, but they have the basics, I went with a simple lined selection, after increasing the thickness, I found something I was fairly happy with, you can adjust the spacing, but sadly no angling or other adjustment options.

Next up is eyelashes:

And I think I'm actually disappointed with the selection here, sure most of the 'classic' options are just recolors, so I'm glad we can color directly now, but I really find it lacking in variation for styles, Also, a 'fullness' option as well as rotations sizing or even transparency would have been nice.

I Went and retouched my eye details and I think I found a better fit:

Nose is next:

We have those weird 2D sliders again, we have options for the length and width, I'm leaving these alone for now, as I'm pretty happy with the stock look. Next up is mouth: I wish I knew what I did, but after messing around long enough with moth position and shaping, I got a happy with:

(Turns out this is controlled by 'vertical position' rather than shape) (and then the server disconnected, so I had to start over from scratch, sorry there will be some variance in my design going forward)

Next up TEETH!

Basically it's just 'do you want fangs?" They're pretty cute imo, so why not! The 'tongue settings' are only for if you want your character to have their tongue permanently sticking out. You can adjust how much it sticks out, and and at what angle. (not for me) Next up is ears: ...and again we have these 2d-sliders:

I find them especially frustrating here, as we're deciding the length and depth of the ears, We're adjusting two different 3D options on a 2d Plane. You can also select your preference ears and horns, even if you've not been designing for that race thus far:

So you really can just mix and match racial elements, very cool! Next up makeup:

and wow, this has got to be the most disappointing thus far! When using a NG face, you're pretty much limited to either 'Snipt' extremely light makeup, or 'cordal' that I showed here. The third option is just clear lip gloss? We can't even use colors? Sure the PSo2 classic designs were a little 'dramatic'. But this is really unacceptable, at least give us basic colors for gloss. Next up we're given the option to customize each of our character expressions:

Now this is actually really neat, you can adjust so many points here, from iris size, and eyebrows, to custom mouth shapes and so much more! I really wish more games offered this, as I'll often times design a neutral face with a slight smile, then when I see them smile in game it grows to wide, and they look like a maniac! XD Next up is body, here is where we find 'Body type selection' Where we can be a humanoid or cast, and we can select between a more feminine or masculine body style for humanoid or cast.

I don't know about PSO2 NG, but the classic version had a fair amount of gender locked items. (iirc) But on to body editing, they have the multi point morph tool we've seen in other games:

unfoutently the labels they offer kinda feel vague, but messing around with this a bit can give you a pretty good starting point, meaning less adjustments will be required later. The first option allows you to adjust the body and bust proportions. Again in only two dimensions:

I again found these sliders hard to use, even small changes seem to change too much, and it's kinda odd being only angle to scale a body by stretching it horizontal and vertical, without being able to adjust the depth at the same time. I'll leave this alone for now, it seems a bit too volatile. Next up are arms:

Finally, normal sliders are back, I'm just much more comfortable with them! We can easily adjust the shoulders and forearms, However, for some reason, the upper part of the arms is only controllable via 2-d slider. So I carefully adjusted it as shown, adding a little muscle, to the upper and lower parts of the arm, and I reduce the hand size a little, to make everything look uniform. Next up is Waist:

Waist controls quite a bit it's not a simple 'butt slider' I'm aiming to go for a slightly athletic build, rather than a pinup model, but I can't really find the arguments I'd like for things like muscle mass, leg spacing, etc. Last up is skin tone, and outfit:

You only have one body type, based on your previous selections, But you have a full RGB slider for colors for both skin, and what I'd assume is an undertone. From there you can pick from a few starter outfits, (with 2 color channels) there are far more in the 'classic PSO2 style' but again that will revert you to a classic body as well. So here's the final look with/without cell shading:

I kinda think both look good in there own way! And we can turn on/off cell shading at any time. Afterward, you just name your character and select a class, and you're all set! (You can make additional changes for up to 3 days, but after that you need to pay to make edits)

Alright so final thoughts! Som, this is VERY CLEARLY a f2p game, a lot of the early cosmetic options were pretty spare, but I think the makeup and lipstick options were kinda unforgivable. I wish they found a better way for us to make adjustment, as I found the 2d sliders much harder to use than in other games. But I really enjoyed the creation process overall, and the stand-out feature was the expression editor. Anyways, if you want to see a clip of the opening you can do so below, I'll see you all next time!

Next CCC: BG3!

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First time designing a chibi!

I know this blog is more for fasion stuff, but I'm still sharing a game screenshot so it counts! As part of today's art practice, I decided to try designing a Chibi version of Lilith! Using Inkscape and Krita!

I had a lot of fun working on this, but I still know I have a lot of practice ahead of me!

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