I apologize ahead of time, I only read the first couple chunks of the post... but I have to directly disagree that the comfy style is in any way an upgrade of what we had. It washed out most of the details, brightened the colors, and opted for the low tier 3D anime style face you would see on things like Left 4 Dead 2 anime girl character models. You cannot actually look at the screen shot dude posted side by side with the "comfy" look and say they are the same image lmao. Meanwhile the Nosey is actually a lot closer, it just has higher detail on the various traits of the character. It basically took the existing character and applied a heavier line of detail to it, which made things pop instead of just washing them together. It's like comparing slightly darker vibe with heaviet attention to detail and washed out details with bright pastels. Personally I wish we could get the hybrid head on the nosey body, because the hybrid body still washes out a lot of the detail, most obviously the cleavage but even her height and overall look makes her look younger than she should be. But the hybrid head actually fits the nosey face properly, instead of it have a half foot forehead as if this was a Code Lyoko character base lol.
Looking at a side-by-side comparison is something I should've done before writing that original comment.
Some of what I said still stands. Like the hair is definitely an improvement, but I do think that the "comfy" style is definitely shaded differently than the OG after looking at them side to side.
The shading and lighting applied to "Nosey" is closer to the OG game, but "Comfy's" overall model is closer to the OG game.
Only adds more evidence to OP's underhanded tactics accusation imo. Making "Nosey" (the style he seems to want to win) closer to the OG game in terms of lighting and shading so people would vote for it. While making Comfy obviously worse in terms of that same lighting and shading.
The OG game's style seems to have never even been offered in the first place. Instead it was "AI Generated?," "100% anime," and "High quality model with a weird nose, and unnerving face."
I think if he put in the effort he could've made the OG style on par with his "magnum opus" Nosey style. But it's too late for that now.
Ya, I'm kinda curious as to *why* the looks of the characters has shifted so drastically... Guessing Arc got more Koikatsu assets he wanted to use instead of the original stuff and that was just that... though it does still bother me he was listing the clearly AI generated images as hand drawn... I hope to hell n back it's a case of he was told it was hand drawn by whoever he got it from but even that is still bad because he would be getting ripped of =_=; worst case scenario, he did it himself and tried to pass it off as hand drawn which is... *really* bad... as is, going off the poll on the site, if looks like the pastel and washed out details will win anyway. Man, I really liked this story too v_v;