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Now here are the male heads...

I updated the thread title to reflect their inclusion. I kept all the variables the same - again Neutral 6, Brown 1 eyes, Black-Brown hair etc. The only hairstyle which even came close to covering the Elf/Tiefling ears was amusingly the Count Rugen trim - you know like from "the Princess Bride." A haircut that's good to know exists, but which probably isn't exactly a top pick for most custom PCs hehe. There were some other contenders as well (the Astarion almost worked for example), but sadly many haircuts are simply unavailable for some of these races. So this one will just have to do for our purposes here lol.

Again with the Elves for a header, since the same doubling occurs with the Drow set.



The rest of the male heads available to the custom PC are below (you can click for higher resolution):


Not again, how some models show complexion and makeup baked-in (and even scars in the case of the halfling dude who I forgot at first but just edited back in). Comparing these with the females above, you'll see that there are about the same number of heads with a slightly different distribution in terms of the races. Again all these male heads would be viable as Human and show many morphological similarities. Another thing to note, same as the female heads, is that the standard close zoom is somewhat different for Tieflings (further) and Dwarves and Halflings (close) which gives a slightly different impression there, but essentially still representational scans 'from life.' The Tieflings and Dwarves show the greatest amount of cartooning and abstraction heavier brows and larger noses etc (much moreso than the females of the same). Again the Gith heads are pushed to an extreme, and so are less useful for comparison. Though I'll try to include them later if I get the time. Again the main consideration is morphological variety, and the differentiation in shape. Clearly we can make these males look pretty different with beards, or different skin/eye tones etc, but for the nuts and bolts, these are the shapes on offer in BG3 thus far.

Elf (6 male heads)

Tiefling (6 male heads)

Human (6 male heads)

Half-Elf (5 male heads)

Dwarf (5 male heads)

Halfling (6 male heads)

Hopefully this makes it just a little easier to discuss what we think about a given head, or series of heads or whatever, since it's often pretty hard to recall what each of them looks like when cycling through them rapidly one at a time. Or just to give something that can be referenced a bit more conveniently.

I think the ideal approach would be to display our choices in the UI somehow via rows and columns. I also would like to see them doing a bit less gatekeeping for the faces, and instead make all of these heads available for use. If for example, a player could first select a human head and then choose a race, where the head then underwent a further morph to make it look all extra Elf or Halfling or (insert whichever fantasy race you like) for their features at that point.

ps. Here are the Gith males. So far they are the largest headset with one more than the female human set.

Githyanki (9 male heads)