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Kira's Face (Part 3)
🕑 Added 2025-11-11 21:04:14 +0000 UTC
Howdy again! Here’s what’s up:
I’ve read your feedback and decided to act immediately, instead of waiting for the survey to end. You told me what you liked/disliked and I made two more versions of Kira’s face, based on what I understood.
Right now, the previous survey still has 19% of people voting for Kira’s current face, which is too much for my liking. I’m aware that I won’t be able to please everyone, but I want to try my best.
This post has a new survey and I will make more posts/surveys like this one if necessary.
Note: Another post about Kira’s face is directly below this one or in our “Collection” tab on this page.
People don’t like change, me included, some of you might know the great windows tragedy of mine and understand my struggle - when Mirinda Gates divorced her deadbeat husband, she took the spacebar from my PC as a part of her divorce settlement. And now she plays with my emotions by giving or taking the spacebar from me with each Windows update.
Like most people, I used to get excited whenever Windows was updating. I was a normal human, I diligently marked my calendar and eagerly waited to see the magic words “Update and Restart” (no other option exists). It felt like a mini-Christmas that always happened when I was working on something important, to give me a much needed break and an opportunity for a Fresh start by sometimes deleting hours of my work. But not anymore... Mirinda took that joy away from me.
I got used to it, adapted, and found an alternative by rebinding my spacebar to alt, but it doesn’t feel the same, it makes me feel like a heretic and a heathen. Every time I type - I am reminded of what was lost, of the Mulan I was. I understand why she did that. I understand that the world is overpopulated and there’s not enough spaces for everyone. But this felt personal, because she took something away from me, she threw my spacebar out of the Windows... That’s right, I, Mulan, the arbiter of Defenestration, felt the taste of my own medicine. And it didn’t feel great.
I’m not Mirinda, I don’t want to take anything away from you, I don’t want you to rebind your spacebars to alt, I genuinely just want this to be an upgrade to Kira’s face, a welcomed change... And as much as I’d like to just keep her current look, it has to be upgraded to give me more tools, be consistent, on par with the other girls, and ultimately speed up the development by becoming a “masterfile” of Kira’s faces from which I will pull whatever face I need for any future H-event.
With that in mind, here’s the deal:
Basically, Kira’s head is very smol.
Since it’s so smol, when I enlarge it - it looks pixelated and lacks details, so I added them. All of the new faces took a lot more effort and they have significantly more details due to their size, they’re big - purposely bigger than the RPG maker’s resolution to allow us to make zoom-ins and close-ups.
The skin isn’t as rough, there aren’t any weird spots on her face and the general quality is better, I just painted above her face and added details where needed. But, it is my understanding that some of the details on her current face that I considered weird and unnatural, are not weird at all and are well-liked by some of you.
So, in version 4 of her face I pulled those details directly from her current face (the spot above her eyebrow, white line beneath her eye, darker cheekbone, whiter eyes) and I sincerely hope that now she looks better to you - If not, please tell me how I can make her face better in your opinion and I will make more versions.
Note: The hair is just something I’m still working on, it’s a separate thing and it’s not final.
Face 1 and 2 are the same as in my previous post, I added some subtle details to face 3 (from Kira’s current face) and then I made two more faces based on your suggestions.
Like I’ve said, Face 4 is the closest to the original - same linework and now it even has some of the same details that the OG face has. I also took some shadows and highlights from Face 3 and added them to it.
Face 5 is a version of Face 2 that also has some details pulled directly from the OG Kira, highlights from Face 3 and whiter eyes.
Both Face 5 and 4 are kind of a hybrid between Kira’s old art and the new versions I made. They, in my opinion, look great and won’t stand out when Kira will talk to the other girls, since they share the same artstyle. But I’ll leave it to you to tell me whether or not they’re actually good.
Just please do keep in mind that this is a “change” and us humans don’t like them. I promise I’ll keep on refining them if needed, I just need to know what exactly I need to do.
All in all, I made two new versions based on your feedback and my interpretation of it, as not everything was easily understood by me, but I think with those two new versions I covered everything that was suggested and I’m grateful that you cared enough to voice your opinions.
I’d also like to mention that since this is just a survey and not a deciding poll, I feel like I can act fast and not wait a week for everyone to cast their vote. I also want to decide this faster, so I could begin my work on her expressions, other angles, hair, lips, etc.
So, big thank you all for your feedback! Please do give me more and I will make more versions, posts and surveys if needed.
Comments
Mao Tsclusul
whoops missed the poll, wanted to vote for face3 . Haha minority vote
Pluh40
Face 4 is the one. I think you actually nailed it this time.
