Resident Evil Village: what is Ethan Winters’s face like?

resident Evil 7 Biohazard was a pivotal moment for Capcom’s survival horror franchise, changing the show’s perspective from third-person to first-person. resident Evil 7th committed to this perspective; Players (almost) always saw the events of the game through the eyes of the protagonist Ethan Winters, which means we never got a glimpse of our hero’s face.

Capcom leaned firmly into Ethan’s dark face of gamers to keep their eyes hidden in the shadows, even for Resident Evil Village. During one officially Looking at Ethan isn’t easy. Fans and modders have adopted his character model from the last two Resident Evil games to give players a glimpse of what the man behind the tortured hands looks like.

That’s why you saw Ethan Winter’s face in spectacular detail in a widely accepted rendering of the Resident Evil 7 and Village Character, on social media this week.

However, this piece of art is made by fans … to some extent. It was created by the DeviantArt user DemonLeon3D. You can see his depictions of Ethan on his DA profile, where he pays tribute to another artist, xKamillox (aka xxkammyxx), for the model used in the graphic shown above. In a sense, it’s semi-official as the ethane model published by xKamillox was extracted directly from it Resident Evil 7 and published on DeviantArt (and uploaded to Mega) in 2017.

Speaking to xKamillox, an artist living in Poland, on Twitter, he says the character model he extracted and uploaded from RE7 was not processed. He noted that Capcom used the same face model for Ethan in Resident Evil Village – what another artist, Flvck0, already has pulled from the files of the game and uploaded for other artists.

Image: Capcom via Flvck0 on DeviantArt

Other modders and artists have also made the unusually mysterious face of Ethan Winters highly visible in the Windows PC version of the game. Resident Evil Village includes a character model viewer, and although Ethan’s face is obscured by default, A mod called Ethan Winters Restored makes his full face visible.

Ethan Winter’s face freaks have known what the character’s face really looks like for years – and who it’s based on. The credits from Resident Evil 7 Name the real model responsible for Ethan’s appearance a man named Yaya Chamki. Otherwise known as Ryan C.He is a Tunisian model represented by the Japanese modeling agency Acqua.

So ultimately, Ethan looks like this: