My attempt at the alien race called Quarians from the game "Mass Effect": http://tinyurl.com/ygnn9ct
I have yet to play either Mass Effect 1 or 2, but I know it was made by Bioware, the same developers of "Knights of the Old Republic", so it has to be good (and everything I have heard so far about both the games is positive).
I hear that in ME2 you can have the hero character, Sheppard, hook up with some of the female 'cast', including the female Quarian called Tali.
Before I do the inevitable nude version and hook up my version of Tali with Sheppard :-): does anyone know what the skin tone of a Quarian is, and what the face looks like?
According to this production image the face is basically human: http://tinyurl.com/yd243m4
But things could have changed since this image was made, and it gives no idea as to her skin tone.
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Face is still a mystery when it comes to Quarians, as is skin. Skin is possibly shown if you hook up with Tali in ME2, but face isn't even with cheats to move camera in that scene you can't see it, it's modeled with the mask on. Maybe in ME3...
Storywise they're always in their suits because their immunity is very weak. Their planet had only few viruses and other virile elements so their immunity was weaker then other species even at that stage. Since they're been exiled from their world they've been living in spaceships for few generations and that sterile environment weakened their immunity even further.
With this character I would make it slimmer, their build is somewhat elf-like, i.e. slimmer. And their face is not really visible. In game you see mostly their eyes and hint of the nose.
Perhaps going for asari at first would be better :). They're already somewhat promiscuous and other users have already made that head thingy for V4.
http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=132735&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=d2fcbed913785d0f59672785495f1859
AS to the Quarians being a bit more slender: well, as you may have noticed, I have a little thing for Big Boobs ^_^
So I gave my version Big Uns, even if it isn't 'canon'. I also gave her wide hips and a slender waist because many images, both official and non-, show female quarians as having such (or at least Tali).
I cheated and found the scene where Tali hooks up with Sheppard; I won't ruin it for you but don't expect much skin to be shown.
Also, check out Zero Punctuation's review of the game here (real funny ^_^): http://tinyurl.com/yc6stpw
Quarian hips look kinda wider, but that may be just because their figure is slender so normal thighs look wider on that kind of body.
I just watched that love scene on youtube and I'm kinda disappointed but not really surprised when I remember ME1 scenes. Also no skin shown. You can see more boobs and skin in Simpsons (not necessarily on Homer :P) than these games.
I saw that review :). And mostly I agree, to me game is rather disappointing. It's too simplified for an RPG. They even removed inventory from the game. Yes it was annoying in first one, but hey, that's what RPG's do :). Also planet exploration in a vehicle, it was kinda boring in first part, and they threw it out and replaced it with planet scanning. Well, this is even more boring, at least I could drive and shoot before :P.
P.S. Go to fourth page of that thread on Daz3D forum, today author of that headpiece released updated version of it. First one was mainly for Daz Studio, this one should be rigged for Poser.