I'm like 6 iterations in, and can no longer say what's wrong or get the uncanny valley feeling. What's your take? If this feels right, I'll share the dials or keep going, but I think I've got a decent lead here.
Proper renders coming after characters have been zeroed.
Keep at it JiiEf, the problem you'll have is likely the same I'm having.
I've spent the last few days going through every single G8 character on the DAZ store and Renderosity, looking for matching features.
I've bought a couple of promising ones, spent hours morphing them (first red flag) and ended up with something close, and yet still far from her look.
In my case, I'll spend a few hours working on her, then finish and think "that's it!" then compare her to a game render and realise I'm way off. The Josy in my mind does not look like the Josy in game, not to mention even in game she looks drastically different depending on the angle, expression, and lighting.
I'm sure I've found the correct base model this morning as I had to do barely any changes to get her close.
However, I now have a weird thing where she looks more like Josy to me than the actual Josy. Like when you say a word a lot and it stops seeming like a real word.