High Elves?

[カイラ]

So I recently saw the Summerset Expansion cinematic and the High Elf looked amazing in the cinematic so my brother bought me the game so I could play it as I'm a High Elf fanatic I absolutely adore them.

So I've downloaded and installed went to create my character game looks gorgous so far but my High Elf looks like an alien compared to the ones I saw in the cinematic and I did choose the High Elf race I'm seriously confused, is it a different race or something you have to unlock later on to get a normal skin tone and human sized Iris?

Any help or information appreciated.

[AC Denton]

Why would you expect it to look like a cinematic trailer?

[カイラ]

Originally posted by Anthony Campbell:

Why would you expect it to look like a cinematic trailer?

Because in the cinematic she had human iris's and a pinkish skintone the ingame high elf model has absolutely huge iris's that cannot be adjusted from what I've seen.

Basically I know to expect a ingame model to not look exactly like a cinematic model but the current ingame High elf model is totally different in asphetic appearence compared to whats shown as a human Tolkien type elf.

[psychotron666]

Are you sure you didn't pick wood elf? When I created my high elf I had tons of eyes to choose from ranging from pure white to yellow and gold to relatively normal looking human eyes. Or maybe your graphics are messed up some way?

[カイラ]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Are you sure you didn't pick wood elf? When I created my high elf I had tons of eyes to choose from ranging from pure white to yellow and gold to relatively normal looking human eyes. Or maybe your graphics are messed up some way?

Hmmm I will relook into it as from what im aware i only remember seeing chaing the eye size no options for iris and im running ona 1080GTX ti.

[Sulaco]

They are altmer, not your fabled high elves form lotr, jesus christ.

[Percival | Miséricordia]

You should never believe what you see on a trailer especially when it's cinematic. In game and lore most mer look alien as they are supposed to.

[bagfullofkittensrpgs]

Sorry to say but you totally got lied to by the Cinematic, Altmer have always been yellowish skinned, blonde with odd looking eyes, when I saw the trailer I wondered what kind of elf the really cute girl was supposed to be, I assumed she was a Bosmer ( Wood elf) . I'm sorry you were disappointed, in future you might want to do more research before buyng anything.

[Blue Mage CXIV]

In contrast to the other responses, after I watched the trailer, I managed to create a high elf character that had more human-ish characteristics. It just takes a lot of time and fine-tweaking. That said, I can't recall if I got the eyes to be more human looking or not...you may want to make sure you're not picking the Wood Elf race and that you are scrolling through all of the eye options.

[amapola76]

All of the above being said, there is quite a bit you can do with the character creation options. Your best bet is to randomize character until you get something _close_ to what you have in mind, and then keep tweaking. No, it will never look *exactly* like the cinematic, but there's quite a range of what you can come up with. You did see the different skin tone and eye color options, right?

[amapola76]

Don't forget as well that changing the eyebrow style can affect the appearance of the eyes more than you might think. Just as is true of real life grooming. :-)

[amapola76]

Originally posted by bagfullofkittensrpgs:

Sorry to say but you totally got lied to by the Cinematic, Altmer have always been yellowish skinned, blonde with odd looking eyes, when I saw the trailer I wondered what kind of elf the really cute girl was supposed to be, I assumed she was a Bosmer ( Wood elf) . I'm sorry you were disappointed, in future you might want to do more research before buyng anything.

I also initially thought the girl in the trailer was supposed to be a Bosmer. For one thing, wasn't she a bit short for an Altmer?

[hammerstar]

Originally posted by amapola76:

Originally posted by bagfullofkittensrpgs:

Sorry to say but you totally got lied to by the Cinematic, Altmer have always been yellowish skinned, blonde with odd looking eyes, when I saw the trailer I wondered what kind of elf the really cute girl was supposed to be, I assumed she was a Bosmer ( Wood elf) . I'm sorry you were disappointed, in future you might want to do more research before buyng anything.

I also initially thought the girl in the trailer was supposed to be a Bosmer. For one thing, wasn't she a bit short for an Altmer?

I actually assumed she was supposed to be the Altmer queen, Ayrenn, though the in-game Ayrenn looks nothing like it. And of course Emeric doesn't look anything like the Breton in the trailer. Haven't played far enough on Pact quests to meet the high king yet, but I'm going to assume the Nord in the trailer doesn't look like him either.

Because that whole sequence feels very much like it should be the three faction leaders all facing off there, rather than generic characters.

[Argstein]

GOOD JOB CHOOSE THE FABLED HIGH ALFS

[Cpt. Stern]

You can definitely change the eye color. I know from my main toon. The eyebrow change as was mentioned is very effective. You can shade around the eyes as well for effect in different colors. Adjusting the cheek bones and brow ridges will also have an influence on how the eyes look.

[amapola76]

Originally posted by No Games James:

Because that whole sequence feels very much like it should be the three faction leaders all facing off there, rather than generic characters.

But it's not a binary choice between those two options. My intepretation is that the primary characters in all the trailers are intended to represent neither the faction leaders, nor random characters; they are a stand-in for _you_, the unnamed Hero. Same as with, say, the original Skyrim trailers back in the day.

Back to the original question, this whole conversation is reminding me that the most aggravating thing about the character creation screen is that there's no back button. Sometimes the smallest tweaks can have unexpected consequences for the harmonious balance of the whole face, and it can be super frustrating to have to redo everything, when you should just be able to easily undo with one click.