Resident Evil Village: What does Ethan Winters’ face look like?

Resident Evil 7 biohazard was a pivotal second for Capcom’s survival horror franchise, shifting the collection’ perspective from third-person to first-person. Resident Evil 7 dedicated to that perspective; gamers noticed the occasions of the sport by means of protagonist Ethan Winters’ eyes at (nearly) all occasions, that means we by no means bought a have a look at our hero’s face.

Capcom leaned hard into the obscuring Ethan’s face from gamers, retaining his eyes hidden in shadow even for Resident Evil Village. Whereas getting an official have a look at Ethan isn’t straightforward, followers and modders have plucked his character mannequin from the 2 latest Resident Evil video games, giving gamers visibility into what the man-behind-the-tortured-hands appears to be like like.

That’s why you’ll have seen Ethan Winters’ face, in spectacular element, in what was broadly assumed to be an official render of the Resident Evil 7 and Village character, on social media this week.

That paintings, nonetheless, is fan-made … to a level. It was created by DeviantArt person DemonLeon3D. You possibly can see his renders of Ethan on his DA profile, the place he offers credit score to a different artist, xKamillox (aka xxkammyxx), for the mannequin used within the paintings seen above. It’s semi-official, in a way, as a result of the Ethan mannequin printed by xKamillox was extracted straight from Resident Evil 7 and printed on DeviantArt (and uploaded to Mega) in 2017.

Talking with xKamillox, an artist based mostly in Poland, over Twitter, he says the character mannequin he extracted and uploaded from RE7 wasn’t edited. He famous that Capcom used the identical face mannequin for Ethan in Resident Evil Village — which one other artist, Flvck0, has already pulled from the sport’s recordsdata and uploaded for different artists to make use of.

Picture: Capcom by way of Flvck0 on DeviantArt

Different modders and artists have additionally made Ethan Winters’ unusually mysterious face simply seen within the Home windows PC model of the sport. Resident Evil Village features a character mannequin viewer, and although Ethan’s face is obscured by default, a mod known as Ethan Winters Restored makes his full face seen.

Ethan Winters face fanatics have recognized for years what the character’s face actually appears to be like like — and whom it’s based mostly on. The credit of Resident Evil 7 title the real-life mannequin liable for Ethan’s look, a person named Yaya Chamki. In any other case generally known as Ryan C., he’s a Tunisian mannequin represented by Japanese modeling company Acqua.

So, in the end, Ethan appears to be like like this: