Soul Calibur: 3D Model Review/Rant

Xiba does not need to be Talim's height just because their age is nearly the same. I was 6'1 in the 10th grade while all of the other kids were 5'9 and shorter.
 
SCIV Nightmare was the worst ever IMO, I think he looks great in SCV.

I miss this Soul Edge though: (and Cervantes' too)

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Ninjaguy446 said:
My beautiful Viola was promised a formidable sized bosom.... but was given..... nothing...View attachment 22593LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE! The renders in terms of bust size for Viola and Tira are horribly wrong. Also, in Viola's art, she looks older than in her render. Just look at the difference... it's huge, isn't it (lol)? I mean, seriously, I could understand if the art were smaller but that's a really big difference between the art and the render. I demand her breast to be re-sized in SCVI/SSCV/SCTT2. >:[ I mean, come on Project Soul. At least Pyrrha's render's size would be fine.
KeigoNiwa said:
lolz, i should've known this subject would have come up XD
WHERE DID IT GO XD *Actually i prefer her rendered size as oppose to her artwork size o.o*
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Not to mention Tira's strange and very obvious Breast-liposuction. I actually would have liked to seen some bust on Tira for once to show her maturity... but I get she overspoiled us already wit her SC3 nipples. aww. Voila on the otherhand would have looked much older and mature if she had something... I'm getting a bit tired of Ivy getting all that attention.
Talisman said:
Xiba does not need to be Talim's height just because their age is nearly the same. I was 6'1 in the 10th grade while all of the other kids were 5'9 and shorter.
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He should be to show that he is a kid at least, with those people you claim you can actually talk to and ask, not to mention realistic factors of genetics or enviromental effects create height. For the sake of general believability I think he should be smaller so his personality wont seem to rediculous.
Kai_lombax said:
Leixia: Her outfit looks alright but her face... Umm no... She doesn't look Asian at all to me. She just look a generic anime girl. I hope that in the next game, they refine her face and make her look a bit more Chinese like her mother.
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I think that atleast if they're going to racially label the characters then they should atleast be accurate to the race potrayed. To me that cheesy anime look just takes away the relatability the characters used to give people. Soulcalibur used to do that well for the most part but now in this new age, everyone looks the same and are only seperated by their "claimed" ethnic backgrounds but they're so unbelievable that it just doesnt look anything like the label they're given. ZWEI looks asian, NAtsu looks IS white, Lexia looks Russian... its a joke. If its at a point where it becomes irrelevant despite it being part of the basic story's synophsis like ZWEI then it should be fixed up. Leixia can look "cute" and innocent while still having small eyes, black-hair, a round face and vanilla-toned skin (like her adorable 2D work render.) Though, Elieen from VF is my leading example of what she should have been. Even Tekken doesn't have a distinquishing problem with this situation with Ling Xia. There is nothing wrong with "realism" infact looks much more authentic to me having a chinese character look chinese. I mean, Seigfried and Zasalamel are the best looking characters to me with this thought, next down is mitsurugi and rapheal.
 
SC2 Cassandra looks more mature; SC3 Cass and then onward she looks more silly.

SC2 Cervantes, he's more skinnier (and more badass than later iterations). SC3 and SC4 they make him a little beefier and he looks brizzled (not sure if it's the right tern to use) due to his facial hair. SC5, he's less brizzled but still has that beefy look.

SC2 Sophie was okay she amplifies a sweet innocent looking lass; in SC3 and SC4 she looks even better as they make her more goddess-like.

SC2 Taki looks more asian and fitting for her age than later iterations. SC3 because there were less polygons she kinda loses that detail in SC2 and in SC4 she looks slightly more young and a bit mature and pretty looking but it doesn't quite measure up the age she's currently at.
 
Hmm from what I've seen... (just adding some more to the convo. lol

Personally, I think

-SC2-3 Cassandra: She had a soft youthful almost angelic look to her face. She looked more natural (moreso in SC2 because of the polygon decline in 3). In 4, she just looked too anime-like and lost her angelic soft youthful natural look.

-SC2-3 Ivy: I mostly took notice to her face mostly. Her eyes looked more seductive and lips more refined as well as her nose. I don't know if it was because she was younger but in IV, the only thing I think they did right with her was her makeup, noticeably how they made her eyeshadow/eyeline appear more noticeable but her face doesn't look as fresh/natural like it did back in SC2. She is better looking a bit in V though.

-SC2 Xianghua: Definitely looked like an authentic 3D Chinese beauty. In SCIV, she looked a bit more anime like but you could still make out the racial traits somewhat in her face.

-SC2-3 Kilik: Honestly, I think he is one of the few who transitioned well into the next gen graphics. His face to me looked a bit too generic in SC2-3 if you exclude his promotional art where he looked full on Chinese-like. He got more refined in IV but I wish they made him look more Chinese-like. When I look at him, I don't see him as Chinese at all but that's just me.

-SC2-3 Sophitia: I agree with franman, she really transitioned nicely into the next gen graphics as well. She looked even more angelic/goddess like then she did during her PS2/Gamecube era.

-SC2-3 Yun-Seong: He definitely looked more authentic Asian in the older iterations. In SCIV, his face looked quite gross to be honest. They really should have refined his face more in the next gen graphics because as much as I like Yun, he just didn't look to good in IV face-wise.

-SC3 Setsuka: I'm not sure if her face changed too much but I do miss how they had her had green eyes. They matched beautifully with her beautiful dark hair. So you can imagine I didn't like her SCIV iteration at all when they made her blonde with blue eyes. We already have the beautiful Sophitia & Cassandra for that characterization. I don't know, I'll just always prefer her SCIII appearance to her IV appearance.

-SCV Pyrrha: Now I adore Pyrrha but she just screams "HEAVY ANIME" to me. I wish they gone the more authentic greek look. When I look at Pyrrha, I don't think she looks Greek at all. But who knows? Maybe it's because she is young so they will refine her when they age her more? Other than that, she was pretty solid in design.

Yeah, that's just what I think though. I also think they should refine Zwei because I forget that he is German because he just doesn't look it too me. I would think he looked almost more Native American honestly. ^^;
 
I know there were some people previously complaining about Cassandra's smushed pig-nose in SC4 or Leixia's lack of an asian face.. or the unfortunate exception is Natsu I'm afraid, who's ninja-barbie look is totally out of sync with the awesome new look seen in the rest of the cast and which is why she was met with a generally WTF? reaction by the fans (on the whole).

This might be the least thing they'd ever consider but I really think they need to revise the models. Most are good but Some look horribly inaccurate to the artwork its based on. The worst 3D render in the game has to be Xiba. He just looks nothing like his art. He's supposed to be a kid yet he has the body of an adult. Not to mention his hair is all wrong. His 2D art suggests that he should have long bushy/shaggy hair that has more volume with a frindge towards the front kinda like those scene/emo boys though not covering his eyes. I just dont think his hair is long enough in the modelled render. They really half-assed it.
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.... Instead they gave him the ugliest fo-hawk I've ever seen. Kinda like what douchy mainstream kids have. Even with the fuel of mine that despises these hairstyles I still think they didn't model xiba correctly at all.
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In general Xiba is a kid, so why the hell is he so mucular and large? He's a yearl older then canon Talim so he should be her size right? Or does logic not make sense here?
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I still think they should tone down Xiba and actually make him look like a kid. His 2D artwork looks awesome but his ingame model is just so badly proportioned.
 
Viola doesn't need that much of an increase in endowment in the render. C if anything. She's skinny as a twig anyways.
 
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