Forgive the title, I thought it would be cute. I also thought about calling this mod Epic Eyebrows. Cause, well, they are epic. Rest of the faces may or may not be.

This is my first attempt at making my own face textures. I'm humbly posting this to get feedback/criticism, because I'm not an artist and I don't actually know anything about texturing. With that said, these are 1024x1024 high quality faces (because we needed another face pack, right?) with emphasis on expressiveness and natural beauty. Sorry about the skin tone/necklace, I'm using my custom race to test it. Anyway, without further ado!

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ORIGINALS
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gentle eyes sunset stroll - http://i.imgur.com/8eR0H.jpg
gentle eyes different lighting comparison - http://i.imgur.com/5R8Jd.jpg
fierce eyes (with and without slight glowmapping) - http://imgur.com/SACmX
sweet face light comparison - http://i.imgur.com/2kidO.jpg
renders - http://i.imgur.com/hOUUc.jpg

Update: High Elf light comparison and render

http://i.imgur.com/AtNld.jpg
http://imgur.com/yTm9e

Update: another High Elf attempt + the render

http://i.imgur.com/g0Jbu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/V13Fc.jpg

Update: Dunmer. Will be updating with more variants/attempts

http://i.imgur.com/KwM8R.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cFy5k.jpg

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UPDATE 1/29/12
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"darker" Dunmer attempt (with high poly head) - http://i.imgur.com/7rqu8.jpg

darker attempt with gamma correction - http://i.imgur.com/wK4o0.jpg

dunmer eye color variants (for those of us who love playing genetic anomalies) - http://i.imgur.com/dO0bK.jpg
dunmer blue eyes - http://i.imgur.com/YA7ma.jpg
dunmer with "ashen" skin - http://i.imgur.com/mFLn9.jpg

^ Feedback needed on these. Need to know which ones to include in release if any.

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UPDATE DUNMER 1/29/12
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http://i.imgur.com/B5aCW.jpg Using the ashen skintone a few people told me they like.
http://i.imgur.com/PvNNd.jpg and the render (Going to touch this up, her mouth is a little crooked, just posting the prototype)

http://i.imgur.com/qpvdS.jpg some eye color variants (I'll fix this eye problem too)

http://i.imgur.com/opB71.jpg - Dunmer tweaks, trying to address some suggestions

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UPDATE NORD 1/29/12
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http://i.imgur.com/7mJYw.jpg - Won't be to everyone's taste. I myself love pale, delicate beauty. Have to refine this one a bit also.

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UPDATE NORD 1/30/12
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http://i.imgur.com/eYHm7.jpg - We can't all be supermodels. Variety is a good thing, though!

http://i.imgur.com/paqwt.jpg - I lied, we can be supermodels. Teehee.
http://i.imgur.com/sjKqm.jpg - Alternate lip style.

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UPDATE DUNMER 1/30/12
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http://i.imgur.com/74JWV.jpg - By special request. If people think it looks good, I can convert any of the other heads to Dunmer.. since everyone loves the Dunmer so much. @_@

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UPDATE CUSTOM RACE 1/30/12
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http://i.imgur.com/nu63g.jpg - My custom race. Their skin is pale enough that any face I make for them can be converted to another race with minimal effort. This will probably be my new main, I'm in love with her <3
http://i.imgur.com/B9J1x.jpg Some eye color variants.

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UPDATE DUNMER 1/31/12
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http://i.imgur.com/BG0t0.jpg - Would like opinions on this. I can dial back the glowmapping on the eyes if it's too bright. Also, do colored lips or dark lips look better? Let me know!

I think they're very impressive. They're very nicely detailed and look to be extremely high quality images.

There is always a market if it is good!

Personally I am pretty much a vanilla type of modder, so my opinion on your work would be misleading, but surely some can give you good comments or critisism.

Thanks Simbelmyne.

Praedator, can you elaborate? I'm perfectly open to criticism from any type of modder or just any person in general. Don't hold back!

If this your first attempt to create a face texture mod and I'm impressed of what you did this far so keep up the good work. I'll keep this thread under surveillance as long it's a WIP and waiting for a release later hopefully this year.

I like most screens for what you try to depict, except the middle face in last screen, that is just a bit too plain for what you try to achieve imo. Also the brown eyes do that I think.

Thanks for your honesty. That's actually my favorite, probably because I'm used to looking at my evil badass punk rocker main character. x.x

I like em all. Really nice work for not being an "artist". Keep it up

They look good...but also kinda creepy at the same time

Great!, but your lady seems like she was beaten by somes people

Nice work on these faces and yes there is most definitely a market for them so feel free to produce these on an industrial scale,in fact we need all the new faces we can get. The total number of unique heads made for Morrowind is somewhere in the region of 2,000, Morrowind + expansions has around 3000 NPC's so there is not enough to give each NPC in Vanilla Morrowind GOTY a unique face let alone a heavily modded morrowind in which case we could do with a few thousand more.The 2,000 figure does not include a few hundred heads which are minor variants of one another which i do not class as unique.

Please consider releasing all that you make as a resource so that your heads may be included in head relacers.

Good faces are always wanted and welcome, and those are great. On a side note, where does that lovely necklace come from?

Trance - Means a lot coming from a real modder.

Cider - I love creepy, so it works.

Papillon - Mudcrabs are vicious this time of year! But i see what you mean. I can adjust it maybe, I kinda like it though.

Slarti - That would be cool, is there a big one coming out soon or something that I could maybe be a part of?

Rave - The necklace is from Xia's Amulets, which was an Oblivion mod. I ported the necklace into the game, it's actually attached to my character's neck so there's no clipping or anything. There's another version of it with 2 smaller rubies on either side, and there's a ton of other necklaces in the pack. If you want the files or you want the necklaces added to your game, let me know which ones and I'll convert them for you sometime this weekend.

Lovely faces, these we'll certainly be downloaded a lot. Great work

Yes I talk about the sort of shadows on his body. ^^

We'd probably download this. Personally, I'd like new female Dunmer faces.

Beautiful! Always looking for new faces. It's odd how quickly one can get tired of faces in a game.

Really astonishing beautiful faces. Could you make then compatible with the Better-Eyes-like mods? Just will give her a life touch.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=mods.detail&id=9177
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=mods.detail&id=7710

And the Better Eyes strikes again!

Did you have a tinker with the skin blemishes? Would be great to see how they go with them.

Nice, thank you.

Actually I'm trying an Altmer face. It's BRUTAL getting that skin tone right when starting from scratch. How they arrived at this strange pea soup mix that somehow looks golden in game, I'll never know, but it's almost done so I'll post pics soon. Dunmer might be easier. I'll try to throw in a couple for you, how's that? Each one takes a couple to a few hours but I'm feeling motivated so look for them this weekend.

Agreed 100%.

I would have to pick this apart and see how it works.. and maybe hit up someone for some advice *nudge Hicks*
I'm not 100% sure what you mean, can you give me an example on google?

I've got some brushes that you can use, I'll send them your way next time you're on skype. It's mostly dimples, pores, freckles that kind of thing. It's worth having an experiment with overlaying skin texture images as well and tinkering with the opacity. Best thing to do is simply experiment.

Thanks I'd appreciate that a lot. Can you send it to my email? Meldiocre@gmail.com <3 ! If not it's ok.

But this real eyes mod, um.. maybe I did something wrong.. seems like in order to not have their eyes roll up in their heads, you have to pan the camera down at an angle.. cause if it's straight they don't have eyes anymore..

edit - Just read some of the comments and the readme. This is an awesome idea but it doesn't work for me personally because I'm one of those people who has an "eye thing," like when you see creepy eyes you get really really unsettled and freaked out. So while I'm not opposed to someone converting these faces to have animated eyes, I won't be working with it myself.

Brushes sent.

You're so the best. My god it's pants on head [censored] trying to get this high elf to look right.. I may bug you in a little bit to give sage advice..

I'll be around for a while yet so you can reach me by email or skype. Pants on head indeed!