I have to tell you, I LOVE the Nord faces so far. :D I'll be first in line to download those... even if I might have to dropkick other people first. >:} But really, they're all really good (and more than once I wondered if you used Natalie Portman as a base for I think two of the female faces).

OMG! He looks http://i26.tinypic.com/vgoghi.jpg!

It's like what happened with that face that looked like vtastek, crazy deja-vu. :wacko:

Your Nords are simply fantastic. I am [im]patiently awaiting a release. Keep upthe good work.

Woah! It's you SWG! I smell a giant conspiracy here. :ninja:

Who is Illuminiel? A sorcere(ss)r watching us from his/her glass orb and creating a dollhouse in the realms of Vvardenfell?!

Thanks jaxawier - probably before TESV is released anyway




Thanks Silver Dreamer - sorry Natalie hasn't made an appearance - I think she has been done before a few times.




Um... okay though the face was based on Ryan Reynolds so perhaps you look like Ryan - the hair was a good match you didn't do any modelling work for Ren did you?



LOL - a digital dollhouse maybe but no I'm not a member of the Psijic Order - you just happen to look like high res photos.

I wanted to make some more progress on the Nords so managed a few more.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1636/nof3.jpg
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2827/nof4.jpg
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2987/nof5.jpg
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4447/nof6.jpg

I'm not sure about #3 so will either replace her or try again - I resized the male mesh and am happy enough with it - it's still a different shape from the usual Nord mesh but consistent with the rest of my work

My goal is to do enough heads for a Vvardefell Visage style mod - which will be a pluginless replacer. In which case I'll need to revisit my Dunmer and add some scars and tattoos. Still lots of work to go but I feel like I'm over halfway there now which is cool.

I don't know about that. They are all wonderful but this one really caught my eye.Something about her just says 'Don't mess with me." Anyway, whatever you decide,keep it up.

Illumineil, I particularly like the faces on the Highelves.

Thankyou Dragon_Lance

I've finished off the Nord females and have 4 more Nord males to do then onto Imperials

There are 17 Male Dunmer faces in the vanilla game and I have 7 more to go

In this set I was looking for some craggy male faces - one of them made my day

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8683/demf08.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2032/demf09.jpg
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2307/demf10s.jpg
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/9562/demf11.jpg

these look great!
the one complaint I have is the Nord females look a little too "Girly".
I suggest more of a "I just rolled in the dirt" skin and the same goes for the hair.
other then that they're amazing

I've redone most of my Dunmer Females

Just wasn't happy with the previous versions, the skin was too flat or the eyes too big - sigh - am glad I didn't release them earlier

Here's the shots - clothing props by myself except for 2 kimono's by Plangkye

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9269/deff01.jpg
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/604/deff02.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8108/deff03.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6092/deff04.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8690/deff05.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4858/deff06.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/905/deff07.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/205/deff08.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/576/deff09.jpg
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9867/deff10.jpg

LOL! These are just gorgeous. I can't wait for them to be released!

Thank you Pyjamarama - I can't wait either

Have completed my set of Dunmer Males - though I cheated on one by reusing a face and just adding a tatoo (something Bethesda did as well with vanilla faces) and I'm unhappy with #17 so it might just be a place holder

I wanted to do a scar to replace the Jiub face but without mimicing what had already been done - the GIMP isn't really set up to do scars like PS can so I opted for something a bit different - works for me though

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6598/demf12.jpg
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/1605/demf13.jpg
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2372/demf14.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8231/demf15.jpg
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/967/demf16.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6541/demf17.jpg

I won't be touching the beast races as they require more artistic ability then I can be motivated to muster and I'm very happy with Westly's recent Orcs which stayed true to the Vanilla style - still have 4 Nords and the Imperials to go - I think I've completed the Bretons but will revisit them to make sure and a couple of Bosmer need redoing

The Dunmer have generally come out okay - reasonably gritty and at least the style is consistent for me

Illy

Wow. These textures are amazing. I've been a fan of your face textures since your first Fresh Faces mod (the blue eyed wood elf is still one of my favorite wood elf faces ^_^). The faces I'm quoting here are just a few of my favs, but I really like them all. There's a lot of variety in the expressions and facial features yet the style is, as you said, consistent. Wonderful work, I can't wait until next Summer to add them to my morrowind install!

(I was wondering... I've seen your Asian Bosmer replacer, and I like it, but I was wondering if you planned on doing a replacer for the wood elves with faces more like the ones you did in Fresh Faces I? As I said, that blue eyed wood elf is one of my favorites, that's why I'm asking. Just curious!)

Anyway, thanks for sharing these screenshots with us!

ps I also like the craggy male faces you posted earlier, #9 in particular: that tatoo is excellent!

Thank you Mandamus - for woodelves I'm using the same Rhedd head mesh as the blue eyed Bosmer of FF - I've got a very simple file structure that sorts the textures by race so if you want to swap one out it will be very easy - especially as it will be a pluginless replacer. However I'll trade you faces for hairs anyday

My goal for this mod is not too attempt to recreate the same face looks as vanilla nor Better Heads - um hence the working title Fresh Faces - I still need to match the relative age of the original faces - so I've tried to get similar match ups - though most of my males tend to be well worn in the face there are a few younger ones - and the females tend to be more youthful though as I work of high res photo sources I am trying to use ones at times without makeup to get a less airbrushed look.

I'm trying to match some specific hair needs as well - though by now it is blatantly obvious I have a preference for Ren's work I for one don't consider them anime style at all and after logging over a 100 hours on Mass effect recently I keep wishing Ren had been employed to do Biowares plastic scalps - (honestly that hair was awful) Anyway I knew I'd need some mohawks and remebered Korana had textured some of Roberberbil's work - so after adding an alpha property and modifying a Ren texture I managed to get something reasonable.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7352/redmohawk.jpg

One of the great moments for me in playing MW for the first time was waking up on the prison ship and seeing Jiub - he just blew me away with his distorted elf face and freaky scar

I didn't want to replicate him but still wanted some impact for my own game - being one of those players who's spent far too many hours in character generation than should be legally allowed

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/120/jiub.jpg You ...ah don't get out much in the sunlight do you?

Haha, same here unfortunately.

Glad to know that this will be a replacer -- these faces look way too good to be used just on the player! I hope you don't mind my asking, but is there an estimate on when this will see a release? Or is the release, as Mandamus said, happening this summer?

I think you should definitly make a head/face replacer.

Your work is inspiring Illuminiel! =)

Keep up the great work.

It's lovely to see the new faces - the textures look so real! :tops:

Oh WOOOOOW.
Man these are insane!
The detail is astounding really.
Exceptional job there. Not my particular style for heads but still an exquisite job.
:drool:

EDIT: Never mind, I see you kept the old wrinkly ugly faces old and wrinkly and ugly.
I may just download this if you make a replacer with them.

Decided to take a break from my other work in progress and finally do some Imperial faces

Opted for more expressive faces as Imperials are supposed to be full of personality in comparison to the Dunmer

Still haven't settled on a male mesh yet - which slows me down considerably I just havea couple of placeholdrs for the guard clone and the boat guard - purely because i see their faces so often in testing I just had to change them

So I think I still have the males to do for all the human races and some more Nords and then it might get done this year - many of these faces will be included as unique NPC's in my other work

As a pluginless replacer it seems to work ok so far - I try and match the age of major NPC's to the faces so it doesn't detract - however the voice actors can easily ruin immersion :violin:

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/4736/imfh01.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6317/imfh02.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/8075/imfh03.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7642/imfh04.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/115/imfh05a.jpg

DO WANT!

This is looking excellent, OP. I can't wait for the finished version.

Hmm.. not much for replacers really, because I get all sorts of styles from various modders mashed together and it kills my immersion. The basic MW skins bug me some, but I dunno, sometimes faces and the like seem more like glued on masks. Seams show vividly, pieces like ears don't always match up, actors are often used, and in the end I find myself suffering eye strain. Hair is like that too.. does't fit some heads right, and often looks too girly or anime styled to look great on a guy. :blink:

That said, I have looked often for replacers in the hopes that one day I will change my mind or see one that doesn't bug me so bad. And despite my basis, I am of the opinion there are just not enough character restyles out there. Ren's work is notable, as are others, but when all is said and done, the number of character models are quite lacking comparatively.

I am always happy to see good high quality work of this type making it's way out, and even kind of like a few of these enough that I am debating if I wish to use them. Weither I do or not, I can respect the effort that must have gone into these, especially if they can catch my picky eye. I must concur with a few of the comments made about the "cleanness" of some of your models. They seem a bit too smooth. :unsure:

Nonetheless, I do like your interpretation of the vanilla faces, and the variety offered. It leaves me lamenting that you can't have voice actors more available to you, as it's a shame to have such work experiencing such a basic hang up. I am sure that must be frustrating. So here's an ice cream for working so hard and since I see these as being on level with Ren's, I am sure they will get a good amount of dl's. :icecream:

Good work and thanks for adding to what I consider an under worked on area of modding. Lot's of mesh replacers, not even heads. lol

Im not sure what to think about these. On one hand they do look very detailed, and look really goo, although im not sure if they fit or not , but i'd like to see how well the eye's and mouths work. It would also be interesting the wireframe of these models too.

Keep up the good work

Any news on this? I am really looking forward to this. Especially the Dark Elf version. :drool:

Oh hi Nextmastermind :wave: - I'd forgotten you liked the faces - I completed all the elves and all the females of all the races - that leaves the male Nords, Imperials and Bretons to complete.

I need to settle on a head mesh that I feel comfortable with in order to complete it as a head replacer

I may pick out some favourites in the meantime and bundle them up as just another mixed head pack but I didn't think there was a lot of interest in my faces :shrug:

If there were a couple you were particularly interested in just let me know as they can go into the pack.

I think there is a lot more interest in your work than you think, just that most people don't take the trouble to compliment artists on their work.and there is little scope for constructive criticism because of the high quality of your work.

I have a placed lot of my personal photographs in the public domain for anyone to use as they wish, i get 1 comment/thankyou per 5,000 downloads , and i get an average of around 1 vote per 1,000 downloads of my mods on PES. If it were not for the download counts i would think there was little interest in my stuff either.

Anyway , add me to your list of 'silent' fans that sit quietly in the background eagerly awaiting your next release .