Character faces

[Akratus]

Does this look like the person I tried so very, very hard (and quite long) to replicate? I'd love to see if anyone guesses correctly, without looking at the spoiler below.

Here's who I tried to replicate:

Spoiler

Ellen Ripley as played by Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien.'

I also made one based off Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, but I've never seen the show and just used his face as inspiration for my unarmed character's look.

 

[Askorti]

Didn't recognize who it was supposed to be. Looked at the spoiler, and frankly, still didn't really see it.
Maybe because the hair is not curly enough.
I would say her mouth is too narrow and the jawline not prominent enough. Also the nostrils should be umm.. How to say it, flatter, but horizontally? If it makes any sense. Also, not pale enough. And too... smooth.
Edit, just realized how much the actress has changed with age. ^^

 

[zegh8578]

Make her lips pout a bit less, and like Askorti said, a more prominent jaw. She has a hint of masculinity to her jaw/mouth area

That said, it's very difficult to make these models look like anybody real...

 

[Akratus]

The jaw prominence is almost on maximum. :p
But the moment I found out there's no curly hair whatsoever . . . :'(

 

[Hassknecht]

The jaw prominence is almost on maximum. :p
But the moment I found out there's no curly hair whatsoever . . . :'(

There's always Alien 3-Ripley.
Also, is her nose extremely crooked to the side?

 

[Akratus]

Yep. I was mostly looking at it from the side. Took a look at the front. Nose tip, bridge and mouth were misaligned.

How about now?

I'm not giving up on her, 'Ripley' is voice acted!

 

[zegh8578]

I think you have to settle on a close-enough - eventually anyway! Simply because as flexible as it is - it simply can't create all-and-any kind of face, and you'll drive yourself crazy. Also, by slightly editing a facial design a little more - a little more - and a little more - you'll slowly shape a freakishness that you've "stared yourself blind" at, if you know what I mean

Facial traits are very subtle, it takes very little to give a completely new/wrong impression

I sometimes get overly perfectionist with facial designs, untill I've managed to make some horrible freak, and just have to start over.
And I'm good with face designs, if I may say so myself :I

 

[khain]

I'm not giving up on her, 'Ripley' is voice acted!

Like you, I spent a while picking a name that I knew would be voiced.

Until I realised that only one NPC in the whole game actually says said name. Then I realised that NPC was not one I would talk to much at all.

And then I was free.

 

[Akratus]

Yeah I don't know why I'm spending so much time on it. Close enough.

 

[zegh8578]

What the hell, I had no idea, that's so weird... the voiced names! They included both "Sex" and "Sexy" HAHAHA

I usually tend to "role-play" established characters of my own fictions, an ocd I rarely break out of - although I sometimes do. Obviously, it's only superficial, since the game and its story will play by its own rules, but I "feel safe" with that little selection of characters.
One of them is a crisp-white haired chick (a bit air-headed if possible, in NV I happily played IN1 for the purpose, since it would allow for a general gruntyness without the associated retardation. Wild Wasteland also fit the personality)
FO4 almost completely shattered this by forcing the whole parent-baby-miss-so-much crapola on me - but an upside was that the bright-white hair actually looked cool, as opposed to the black and gray streaks dominating "white" hair in the previous engine.

For male playthroughs I typically land on an equally grunty guy with a square jaw and a mustache
But I prefer female simply because it's nicer to look at I also feel a different sympathy for a female character, than a mustache-douche (even if he is my favorite mustache-douche)

Years ago I would play as "myself", and my first FO3 playthroughs I had the characters face carefully modelled after my own, with the good and the bad. I quickly grew bored with that..