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rallamajoop · 8 months

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Lab Photos and Documents from Resident Evils 7 & 8

Near the end of both Resis 7 and 8, the player character gets to explore a laboratory full of significant documents and interesting photos, textured and angled such that it’s very hard to get a good screencap. So here’s a huge dump of all the relevant image assets I could find to extract from both game files (plus some rambling about everything that got recycled between them, because spot-the-reused-asset is still my favourite game right now).

Photos from Lucas' lab in Resident Evil 7

The photo of Mia with Eveline in front of the tanker can be found at the end of the Mia video tape, though it also shows up again in Lucas' other lab in the Not A Hero DLC. That DLC also throws in a few new photos of Lucas' creations.

And moving on a game...

Photos from Miranda's Lab in Resident Evil 8

(Apologies for the long post above the cut, but tumblr doesn't seem to let you tile images below a 'Read more', unfortunately.)

What’s interesting is that most do seem to be legitimate photos of the characters’ real-life face models, not just renders of their 3D game models. Whether the human models themselves posed for these or whether their likeness was simply photoshopped onto scenes composed without them I haven’t been able to find out (though the latter seems more likely to me, given that most face models don't even seem to have known what character their likeness would be used for). Either way, there’s an eerie realism to these that doesn’t occur in many other parts of the game, and it’s effective in its own uncanny way.

Since both games refer to the same research at the same lab, it's probably reasonable that some of RE8 photos are just slightly-adjusted copies of those from RE7 ‒ those two shots of Eveline in the lab most obviously. And we're probably just supposed to politely ignore how obviously Miranda's just been selectively edited into that original pic of Eveline with the scientists. *cough*

In fact, if you look closely, even that big group photo of Eveline with the research team and transport operatives has actually patched in both Mia and Eveline from that earlier photo of them standing in front of the tanker. In fact, Alan (Mia's partner in RE7) isn't even from a photo at all: that's a drawing from a piece concept art (no wonder they've got him standing at the back!) As a minor role who appeared in no photos in RE7, I assume they just didn't have any good shots of his face model available.

I'm a little suspicious even Miranda's face in the group shot has been edited in from one of her other photos, but the match isn't quite perfect enough for me to be sure.

Even that photo of the needle going into the egg and the developing foetus isn't new: you can see the same needle shot in some of the RE7 documents, and even the foetus development series gets an angled scan-over in the RE7 ending sequence.

Mind you, some of those "photos of Eveline" may actually not be Eveline herself ‒ text on them in the lab itself suggests they're photos of other members of the E-series, sacrificed during necrotoxin tests. Which makes it rather odd that the figure in the second photo is an adult man who looks nothing like Eveline, so I can only assume some wires got crossed somewhere in the dev team.

(Also odd: the suggestion that there were multiple E-series subjects, some of whom were put down for experimental purposes, even though Eveline herself is labeled E-001. But let's not pretend RE lore has ever been super-consistent at the best of times.)

RE8's "lab photos" also include a couple of shots of a man in snow gear who's apparently Spencer of Umbrella-fame, presumably for all those fans who don't feel it's a proper Resident Evil game if there's not an Umbrella in it somewhere. They're both about as rough as that one piece of concept art of Alan, so I'm guessing whoever created them was about as invested in that topic as I am.

Somewhat more interesting to me are the two shots of Miranda with babies. The second obvious Eveline, but the first is presumably of Miranda with Eva, way back in 1920 or so ‒ demonstrating nothing so much much as that in a full 100 years, Miranda hasn't even slightly changed how she does her eyebrows. /s

#Resident Evil Village #Resident Evil 7 #Mia Winters #Eveline #Mother Miranda #RE assets #reused assets #RE lore #meta

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highlifeboat · 1 year

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top 5 rez evil wamen(entire series or 7 + village, your call)

I ain't even gonna pretend like this is hard (For the record I still only really know 7 and Village, so I'mma stick to that. I know a little about Claire and Ada now but not enough to put them in here).

I will be ranking them in how much I like them as characters, so this list is incredibly subjective.

Number 1 - Mia Winters. Amazing, beautiful, probably a little mentally unstable, deserves better. Really interesting character that doesn't get utilized. Done dirty by Capcom. Like. Severely. But still amazing. I believe there's lots to explore with her and I just wish they had given her and Rose some kind of relationship.

The rest is in no particular order.

Number 2 - Eveline. Listen, this poor fucking child. I love her, and I believe there's some level of sympathy that can be had for a child who was forced into being someone's human experiment for her short life. She's also just... really cool. Her powers are badass. I like to think there's a universe where she gets to be happy with a family (Whether that's the Bakers, Miranda, Mia and Ethan, whoever).

Number 3 - Cassandra Dimitrescu. Why Cassandra specifically? Because I think there's something to be said about the fact Alcina put her as the front man. She's clearly seen as the strongest, and more capable sister, but it also seems like she has a lot of pressure put on her. If there was more time explore the Sisters as characters, I think Cass would be a really interesting one. (I love all the daughters equally though)

Number 4 - Mother Miranda. I hate her, but goddamn if she ain't a great character. I think her motivation is interesting (if a little dramatic), the way she manipulated an entire Village into following her is very neat, and there's still things about her that can be explored. Especially her relationship to Mia other characters. Also her boss fight is still my favourite idc.

Number 5 - Donna and Angie. Counting them together because... They're the same person. Having Donna as a selectively mute antagonist who only really speaks through her favourite doll/puppet makes for such an interesting character imo. I love her to bits and I wish we had gotten to explore her a little more. Also her part of the game is the best, it really captures what I loved about RE7 that the rest of 8 simply doesn't. (Which is a shame, because RE8 as real horror would have been fucking awesome)

#for the record i love ALL RE wamen pretty equally #asks #anons #mia winters #eveline #eveline winters #eveline baker #cassandra dimitrescu #mother miranda #donna beneviento #angie beneviento

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