Firstly, I want to say a huge THANK YOU to the team who listened and remade the god portraits. You did an outstanding job!
I have some feedback for each of the pantheons, and I hope you will take it into a consideration.
Egyptians:
Every single portrait is a massive upgrade compared to the previous versions!
Greek:
Amazing work. All of them are upgrades!
I wish Hera’s and Artemis’ faces were just a bit more detailed and prettier.
Norse:
I like all of them except new Freya. Her new pose is cool, I just wish her face was prettier as she’s also the goddess of beauty. I also think that Vidar’s leg is much larger than another one, so that should be fixed as well.
Atlantean:
Oranos, Kronos, Gaia, Theia, Hecate, and Helios were better before.
Oranos lost face details.
Gaia looks even weirder now with eyebrows.
Hecate’s new face has weird lips.
Helios had a better look in the previous art, and in the new one his face looks less detailed.
Kronos looks even more colorful now, which is weird.
Theia’s face also looks less detailed compared to the previous version.
The rest are major upgrades.
Besides Bast that everyone complained, the one I had the most problem with is Anubis. I don’t know why the previous portrait made him look like some MOBA assassin hero and put him in a grey, gloomy Dracula castle which is far from the Egyptian underworld. The new one looks great and makes much more sense.
Great job for getting rid of some of the weird stuff that made people believe it was AI, and making the styles more consistent.
Can’t say every portrait is an improvement.
There’s some portraits that I liked better before.
The difference between the beta images and release images tell me that the beta portraits were never meant to be the final product. The old ones being AI generated makes more sense if they were just reference material.
I personally love every new portrait. They look definitely better then before. Gaia is ugly but Gaia was ugly before so…
Yes, new Bastet rocks!
New Skadi too… I even like the new Helios alot.
For me everyone looks cooler now. I hoped a little bit Anubis would get his old mystic pose back but he looks cool anyway. The new Hyperion is very awesome. And Theia doesn’t look like a Nier: Automata character anymore. And new Osiris… oh boy he looks so cool now. I’m very happy about the new portraits.
Poseidon looks ugly to the core man. The previous portrait was SO good man! I agree that some gods look better now, but others seem to have a massive downgrade with the new pictures.
I wonder if we could customize that in the future, choose between both versions and use the ones we like the most. Since the pictures have already been created, I see no harm in it.
Greeks: I prefer the old Athena. Overall good improvements, glad Poseidon looks majestic now, instead of looking like some hobo…
Atlanteans: I think all of them were improved, but they should have kept the old Hekate. And I think Atlas is a bit deformed lol.
Norse: old Freyja was better, the new one was made ugly. They should touch up her face so that she looks “beautiful” as she’s supposed to be, according to the myths. I also think Vidar has comically huge calves, and Skadi has a weird deformed finger. Other than that, they are massive upgrades.
The evidence suggests they were meant to be the final product. They originally posted some on socials to brag about the new art, and they just made an announcement saying they replaced them based on feedback. I’m very surprised and happy to hear that they listened.
Similarly, I feel like Aphrodite, the literal embodiment of love and ##### should show a lot more skin like in the original. Beta version was more modest but still much better.
I suspect that they also used AI to remaster the old portraits, so much so that if you look at some of the details they are also strange, like the ornamentation on the buttons of Loki’s coat.
LMAO I found this surfing reddit, look at the axe ornament, it doesn’t make any sense, then apollo again has the problem of not looking where he is pointing the bow, and several other problems, it seems that they redid the portraits with AI but this time they asked the AI for more dynamic poses
A lot of the new portraits are GREAT, but some of them look like comic book art, and some have a realism aesthetic. I much prefer the realism.
I would like to be able to use beta God portraits on certain Gods and Classical portraits on others, as well as the ones that came with the final release.
If the development team could give us options to customize each God individually with different options, that would be AMAZING.
At the end of the day we need to hear from the developers to understand how they were made and why they are different between beta and release (in regards to AI)
First of all, thank you for the new portraits! I loved the detail of the glowing eyes; it reminded me a bit of the power of certain beings in games like Warcraft.
Secondly, according to the myth, Atlas carried the sky, not the earth.
