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While I'm making em blue this weekend, in volleyball armageddon, and since I mentioned the ears above...
Lets check out the Elf ears for a sec while we wait...


First thing I noticed is that the Elf ears are actually identical. They are just shaded differently which gives a slightly different take on the same essential shape. You'll notice that in terms of the morphology the only face that's substantially distinct in this lineup is head 2. The ears on that model have most of the shading stripped away, almost like a rough draft or the first iteration of the elf ear. It meets the jawline (which is slightly more severe) at a slightly different point. The bridge of the nose on that model is higher and the nose itself is a different shape/length. For all the rest, the heads are basically duplicates.

The jawlines are the same, cheekbone positions are the same, the lips and the noses are likewise the same.

There are subtle variants in the shading, similar to the way complexion is being used across the entire face to give an impression of variety, but the major shapes are identical.

Other than head 2, the only marked differences we're seeing here are what's going on inside the orbitals of the eye sockets.

Here we see basically a different shading around the canthus, which gives a somewhat distinct impression. It's very similar to cosmetic eyeshadow being baked-in to the head. I'll post the rest when I have time. Making them all blue was a quick way to abstract, it helps to see the values, the tonality, where warmer/cooler hues are in the under-image and what's going on with the complexion variation I mentioned. The same occurs with all the heads currently available to the custom PC in EA. As you see more of them presented together side by side instead of 1 by 1, you will also notice which faces have undergone a kind of mini-morph similar to the one I described in the post above, just on a much more limited scale.

For comparison here is Human female head 1, which is very clearly the basis for the Elf head above. You can tell from the basic morphology of the shapes and the tell tale beauty mark on the tip of the nose. This is carried over into Head 3 as well. The variation in the eyes/eyebrows were were probably added from an alternative scan or reference. Comparing the blues to the original post at the head of this thread. I'd say it went from the Human scan to Elf head 1, then from there to Elf heads 3 and 5 then to Elf head 4 which has the most refinement in terms of detail and complexion and probably a different mashup for the eyes. Or alternatively, it might have began with Head 4, and had the detail progressively scrubbed out to arrive at the others. You can tell by how the jaw was carved out, the eyebrows reshaped, maybe an eye-swap occurred, the highlights around the nose or cheeks knocked back etc but with certain marks still carrying through. All basically seeming to come back to this one somehow, either initially or in the end...