I have an interesting theory which may be complete crap but here it goes. Toshihiro Nagashi( creator of Yakuza series and one of SEGA's most important people) has said that 26th August they will anounnce a new game. 26th of August is within the Gamescon timeline so assuming there have been talks be...

Shenmue III would not live up to expectations even with a 500 milion dollars budget

sutoji wrote: For Ryo..



I find that this was the only one they got right as of yet in my opinion.

Again, this is 100% about lighting.

We're here talking so much about why these model are so funky looking because YSNet doesn't have any budget to invest in professional marketing and pr. This is why they can't afford to make a demo build for E3, or some good-looking promotional cg art like in the Dreamcast days. This is why that ankw...

we need to see it in its proper context. An android factory ? :lol: :lol: I'll stop shitposting for now, I need more perspective. Heh, it's a fair enough shitpost i guess. My point is that, imho, stating that this model is an abomination, the ugliest thing ever or even just that it doesn't look tha...

Talking about Shenhua, when i saw the new model i thought that she kinda looked like this cg render in particular: https://s18.postimg.org/laerwa6vt/shenh.png Major off-putting elements: lighter hairs, cheaper/plain/poorer (also less cartoonish, tho) looking shadows and shaders in general, deader ey...

I think that most of the people that are now saying that the new Shenhua doesn't look like her (wich one of the three thousand all-different looking promotional renders available around we've talking about, by the way?) will eventually change their mind when they'll show her in-game, with her proper...

An old classic about how much lighting angle can vastly change face's shape perception

Exactly, the point here is that i didn't had to actually tweak anything (i am a gal anyway :mrgreen: ), outside of the color balance :mrgreen: I think we can safely say at this point that the real culprit is just the generic and still not accurately modeled hairstyle. That and maybe the a bit more d...

Ok, this is last time, i promise just a more complete comparison:

Shenmue 3 Ryo's face with Passport Ryo's hairstyle and adjusted coloration comparison #2:



So uhm...? This seems pretty good to me?

Upon closer inspection it looks that the models are based off the Passports ones.... http://i.imgur.com/7sQWSgl.jpg Yet they somehow managed to make them look ugly, maybe are those dead eyes, maybe in motion they will look fine, time will tell. Like i said, 95% of the problems of these models are b...

I think they mostly need to get Ryo's forehead and hairline, and then it will be fine. I'm eager to see these models in some actual gameplay footage, i think people are getting a bit too much worked up for a couple of ankwardly cropped out, bad lighted, terribly compressed images (so much that every...

My quickly slapped-together "Shenmue 3 Ryo with Passsport hairstyle and less godawful oversaturation" pic

I think that this comparison that someone posted on Neogaf is actually pretty good:



I think it shows that they kinda nailed Ryo pretty good and that it's almost everything about lighting.