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Authors Note: Happy thanksgiving holiday if you happen to be American (or Canadian too). I'm staying home this year as travel looks extremely risky! Ideally you should too for safety sake.

I've got a new episode cooking but this one here is not a usual story entry. Instead I thought some would like to see a work in progress of the upcoming Shellie model.

This one shows "Shellie Mk-VI," still wearing her big arm cast held up in the brace. Lots of upgrades were added including new eyebrows, refurbished makeup (less eye shadow), slightly poofier hair, and of course new facial expressions...

Artists who use Daz 3D will know that many default and downloadable facial expressions of the Genesis models have... issues... to put it lightly. Some display a certain "soullessness" like a mannequin (uncanny valley territory) or are so extreme that they "break" the facial topology. I've done my best to avoid the pitfalls in the past but with the previous face morph it often required fixing in post.

Also I've noticed the typical characters and downloadable expressions available seem to favor super sexy, fashion-model-like faces which is not what I wanted for this character. In particular, I preferred rounder characteristics in her face compared to her peers which react differently to certain facial expressions like wide smiles for example. For her new expressions, some are modifications of existing morphs (dialed down, or mixed with others) while others are new custom ones that are specific to this face shape.

Shellie V6.0 is not quite done yet but hopefully this will result in an improved and more flexible, expressive face.

Like it? Hate it? (I'll be tweaking extensively over the holiday so feel free to drop a comment or pm in that time.)

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Authors Note: Happy thanksgiving holiday if you happen to be American (or Canadian too). I'm staying home this year as travel looks extremely risky! Ideally you should too for safety sake.

I've got a new episode cooking but this one here is not a usual story entry. Instead I thought some would like to see a work in progress of the upcoming Shellie model.

This one shows "Shellie Mk-VI," still wearing her big arm cast held up in the brace. Lots of upgrades were added including new eyebrows, refurbished makeup (less eye shadow), slightly poofier hair, and of course new facial expressions...

Artists who use Daz 3D will know that many default and downloadable facial expressions of the Genesis models have... issues... to put it lightly. Some display a certain "soullessness" like a mannequin (uncanny valley territory) or are so extreme that they "break" the facial topology. I've done my best to avoid the pitfalls in the past but with the previous face morph it often required fixing in post.

Also I've noticed the typical characters and downloadable expressions available seem to favor super sexy, fashion-model-like faces which is not what I wanted for this character. In particular, I preferred rounder characteristics in her face compared to her peers which react differently to certain facial expressions like wide smiles for example. For her new expressions, some are modifications of existing morphs (dialed down, or mixed with others) while others are new custom ones that are specific to this face shape.

Shellie V6.0 is not quite done yet but hopefully this will result in an improved and more flexible, expressive face.

Like it? Hate it? (I'll be tweaking extensively over the holiday so feel free to drop a comment or pm in that time.)