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Facial Mapping/Design

flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
edited November 2014 in The Art of Star Trek Online
Lets take a look at a quick comparison...

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All those images are from cutscenes, except the one from GTA, that's in-game. Why is it that these other games can have near perfect facial features (in the case of WWE; matching that of the wrestler) when Cryptic can't get a face that resembles anything like Denise Crosby?

I'm puzzled. Someone help me understand this.
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  • gurluasgurluas Member Posts: 464 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I honestly do not know what happened.
    They had her right:

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    Now she's off, a bit like Seven of Nine.
  • tk79tk79 Member Posts: 1,020 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    To be honest the new version looks a lot more like the real picture in the previous post. Not saying it looks better though.
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  • adamkafeiadamkafei Member Posts: 6,539 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    To be fair she has been on an Elachi station for at least a few months with no protective equipment, that's bound to have an effect.
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  • gurluasgurluas Member Posts: 464 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    adamkafei wrote: »
    To be fair she has been on an Elachi station for at least a few months with no protective equipment, that's bound to have an effect.

    They retroactively changed her to look like that in all her appearances. And I've heard they changed Yar too.

    and I don't see how. The original Sela looks FAR more like Denise Crosby.
    For one the new one has a massive jaw, a very wide nose, overly chubby chins and a too dark skintone.

    The original could have better eyebrows, mouth, the correct hairstyle and such, but in general she looks far more like Crosby and Sela.
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    gurluas wrote: »
    They retroactively changed her to look like that in all her appearances. And I've heard they changed Yar too.

    and I don't see how. The original Sela looks FAR more like Denise Crosby.
    For one the new one has a massive jaw, a very wide nose, overly chubby chins and a too dark skintone.

    The original could have better eyebrows, mouth, the correct hairstyle and such, but in general she looks far more like Crosby and Sela.

    This.

    The new version of Sela looks like my grandmother. Definitely not like Denise Crosby. The original version was far better.
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  • adamkafeiadamkafei Member Posts: 6,539 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Ah, I didn't see that, seems odd though that they would purposefully make that radical a change, maybe somebody played with something in the tailor and it screwed with recently modified assets.
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  • lordkhoraklordkhorak Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I literally cannot understand how this got put in the game. Same as with Leela.

    I mean this genuinely. I do not understand. It is impossible to look at any reference picture of the actress in question, then at the in-game recreation, and consider it to be in any way acceptable; in general as a person at all, and certainly not as the person ostensibly being recreated.

    I will say it again, simply for emphasis. I do not understand. It seems so utterly elementary to me, and yet this has happened. This is a thing that has happened. How? Who created this? What decision making process implemented it? How many people saw this and wrote off on it?

    I. Do. Not. Understand.

    Yes, I am employing rhetoric, but my confusion and bafflement is utterly honest.
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    It is rather strange. Especially since they got Tuvok and Harry Kim pretty much spot on. Both Seven and now Sela look very strange. Not sure what happened with these two.
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  • gurluasgurluas Member Posts: 464 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I'm actually starting to think it's a rights issue. Maybe they do not own the rights to the likeness of Denise Crosby?
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