Why do the children in Horizon Zero Dawn look like they belong in a Resident Evil game?
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After seeing this from AC: Vallhala my standards changed
This is great. I'm imaging someone going like "Kid models? Just make them weird adults!".
Her eyes are kinda small and beady, I think that's where the shrunk adult face comes from. A head grows over time, but your eyes are pretty much fully formed from early on, so proportionally they should be bigger. Then again there are also kids with beady eyes, so I also get the ones complaining that this is just people shaming less good looking kids.
Another thing is that their faces are too shiny. Like the subsurface scattering doesn't account for the higher collagen.
Another thing is that their faces are too shiny. Like the subsurface scattering doesn't account for the higher collagen.
They don't look that much better in the game...
I don't know what happened between Odyssey and Valhalla but characters looked MUCH BETTER in Odyssey
Why Do Babies In Medieval Art Look Like Creepy Adults?
Infants in medieval art all have one thing in common: They don't look like babies. Instead, they resemble miniature versions of middle-aged men, sometimes complete with receding hairlines and ripped muscles. Depictions of weird, prematurely aged babies appeared throughout the medieval era and...
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Kid on the left about to light up a cigar and begin to tell me stories about how he chased a white whale for decades.Cyberpunk comes to mind
This is not what this means.
They look like children, who already look weird.
Aloy just looks weird... period 😂 Especially when you compare her current look to the original character design by the artist Loish.
But yes... the first time I saw child Aloy I thought to myself, she looks like young Clint Howard in a rockabilly wig. There's just something... off.
(Ok, maybe she's not that trippy looking lol)
As far as adult Aloy, maybe it's her hair that annoys me more than anything? It just looks like a poof of nonsense on the top.
Yeah... I think that's one of the issues.
But yes... the first time I saw child Aloy I thought to myself, she looks like young Clint Howard in a rockabilly wig. There's just something... off.
(Ok, maybe she's not that trippy looking lol)
As far as adult Aloy, maybe it's her hair that annoys me more than anything? It just looks like a poof of nonsense on the top.
Yeah... I think that's one of the issues.
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This image is hysterical lmao
The kids definitely have a bit of that medieval 'I don't understand how children are supposed to look' look.
well I am just glad they didn't go for comic accurate look based on this pannel. I happened to randomly catch the movie The House with Clocks in its Walls on tv last night and they did a gag where Jack Black's character gets de-aged except his head and it was a bit unsightly.
Most video games research into how children look appears to be from the Love Guru
I remember playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and every single male child seemed to be the same bald headed child who sounded exactly alike.
I remember playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and every single male child seemed to be the same bald headed child who sounded exactly alike.
I don't think the issue with HZD is the amount of time devs could dedicate to polish the art. That game's best assets are its graphics after all, and it's evident that a lot of work went into making characters, they're packing a lot of detail, but the results hit the uncanny valley for some people - me included -, which is why I think the games I posted look better despite not being as technically advanced as HZD.
To be fair, my babies definitely went through that period where they resembled bald middle aged men.Why Do Babies In Medieval Art Look Like Creepy Adults?
Infants in medieval art all have one thing in common: They don't look like babies. Instead, they resemble miniature versions of middle-aged men, sometimes complete with receding hairlines and ripped muscles. Depictions of weird, prematurely aged babies appeared throughout the medieval era and...
Jesus I thought that was a penis.well I am just glad they didn't go for comic accurate look based on this pannel. I happened to randomly catch the movie The House with Clocks in its Walls on tv last night and they did a gag where Jack Black's character gets de-aged except his head and it was a bit unsightly.
The kids definitely have a bit of that medieval 'I don't understand how children are supposed to look' look.
Aloy just looks weird... period 😂 Especially when you compare her current look to the original character design by the artist Loish.
But yes... the first time I saw child Aloy I thought to myself, she looks like young Clint Howard in a rockabilly wig. There's just something... off.
(Ok, maybe she's not that trippy looking lol)
As far as adult Aloy, maybe it's her hair that annoys me more than anything? It just looks like a poof of nonsense on the top.
Yeah... I think that's one of the issues.
Agreed, that ugly poof makes her look silly.
Agreed.
I noticed this in other games too, actually. The Witcher 3 I think for example.
Lmao
After seeing this from AC: Vallhala my standards changed
Ok, that's enough internet for me today.Cyberpunk comes to mind
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HZD does have an uncanny valley problem and imo it's more noticeable on the children for some reason.
Ugh. That was such a good book. They did not do it justice with that movie. :(well I am just glad they didn't go for comic accurate look based on this pannel. I happened to randomly catch the movie The House with Clocks in its Walls on tv last night and they did a gag where Jack Black's character gets de-aged except his head and it was a bit unsightly.
Why they all look like Chucky thoAfter seeing this from AC: Vallhala my standards changed
Yea base Ryder just looks super weird. My Ryder looked fineI wanted to understand what makes these kids so bad with some other interpretations of what constitutes a well animated/modelled child in a game - we make concessions on a per genre basis so I was narrowing it down to open world games, ultimately looking for some context. Personally when I make these forms of comparisons I tend to use like for like, hence the Mass Effect and Witcher comparisons. Ellie and Atreus are the main characters of their respective games, visible from start to end so Horizon's kids won't receive the same level of detail, exactly why I said Jack Marston is the gold standard (RDR2 is the gold standard with open world characters in animations overall no doubt). Completely forgot Ciri had scenes as a child in Witcher 3 but she looks great in comparison.
Btw I'm not interested in changing your opinion, I'm more interested in knowing more about your opinion and that usually involves comparisons to other games for me, especially successful attempts if we're to just say X game does thing wrong... Compared to what? You're clearly not the only poster here that thinks they look bad lol but your first response to me was just "yes" so I inquired further. I'm a curious boi.
Side note: Here's my Ryder, made it past most of the early sequences that people clowned OG Ryder for and she animates sooooo much better, I have no idea what they were doing with the base model, something with her cheeks just ain't right.
