Track B reviewer: GPT-6.1-Terra's six critiques

The current round makes the brows easier to read, especially for Angry and Surprised, but drawing them over the bangs creates a floating, pasted-on look. The new pink mouths also lose some of the depth and clarity of the darker Before mouths.

Woman: Joy and Wink read clearly through the closed eyes; Angry reads through the sharply slanted brows. Neutral and Smile are pleasant but very similar. Sad reads mostly from the brows and small mouth; the eyes still look fairly neutral. Surprised and Shout are harder to tell apart: both mouths are small, horizontal pink shapes, and Surprised lacks a convincing open “O.” Smug reads close to Neutral because the eyes and mouth barely change.

Youth: Joy, Angry and Surprised read through their eye and brow shapes. Wink reads, though the closed eye still shows enough iris to look half-lidded. Smile, Sad and Smug are subtle; Smug especially needs a more asymmetric or self-satisfied mouth. Shout looks more like a small smile than a forceful call.

For both bodies, the lip-sync shapes have regressed: A and O are flattened and similarly pink, I is nearly invisible, U is a tiny mark, and E is a thin smile. White rims and dark corner fragments make several mouths look outlined or detached.

The three highest-impact changes for the next round:

1. Integrate the brows with the hair: keep their expressive angles, but break or soften strokes where bangs cross them so they don’t appear painted on top.
2. Restore mouth depth: use a dark interior with restrained tongue or lip colour; remove the white rims and corner fragments. Give Shout a substantially taller opening.
3. Separate the phonemes: make A tall and open, I wide and narrow, U small and rounded, E wide with visible teeth, and O distinctly round.

The darker mouth interiors and pink lower shading give open mouths more depth than Before. The eyebrows are easier to read, but their visibility through solid hair sometimes looks like an overlay.

Woman: Neutral and Smile read clearly, though Smile is subtle. Joy reads as happy through the closed eyes, but its small mouth is less exuberant than Before. Angry reads well from the inward-sloping brows. Sad reads mainly from the brows; the tiny mouth could also suggest uncertainty. Surprised looks more like speaking: the mouth is a narrow horizontal opening. Shout reads as talking because its mouth is only moderately open. Wink is clear, though the closed eye has a sharp, triangular lash shape. Smug is too close to Neutral. A and O are readable but similar; I and E are very slight, while U is a tiny dot.

Youth: Neutral, Smile and Angry read clearly. Joy reads as pleased, though the half-closed eyes and smaller mouth soften it compared with Before. Sad looks tired or neutral because the mouth is nearly flat. Surprised has wide eyes, but its small mouth weakens the reaction. Shout resembles A. Wink reads, although the closed eye looks partly open; Smug mostly reads as sleepy. A, I and O are distinct, but U is pin-sized and E is close to a smile.

The three most useful changes for the next round:

1. Make Surprised mouths taller and rounder, and give Shout a distinctly larger opening; retain the new dark interiors.
2. Strengthen Sad with a visible downturned mouth and inner brows raised; make Smug asymmetric in both eyelids and mouth.
3. Refine brow visibility through bangs: soften or interrupt strokes at hair boundaries, especially the long, dark Angry and Sad brows. Enlarge U slightly and widen E for clearer lip sync.

The current round improves the brows and adds useful mouth depth, but several expressions still depend too heavily on the mouth or have features that look drawn over the hair.

Woman: Joy and Smile read clearly; the closed eyes and smile shape distinguish them well. Angry reads through the sharply lowered brows. Wink is recognizable, though the closed eye looks like a cluster of thin lines. Smug reads as one-sided, but the sloping mouth suggests uncertainty more than confidence. Sad has convincing brows, yet the mouth sits unusually low, near the chin. Surprised looks more like speaking: the eyes are close to neutral and the mouth is wide rather than round. Shout has a larger mouth, but still resembles an open smile.

Youth: Joy, Smile and Angry read clearly. Surprised is stronger than the woman’s, with widened eyes and raised brows, though it resembles Shout. Wink reads as a half-lidded eye rather than a fully closed wink. Smug has useful asymmetry, but the tilted mouth looks subdued. Sad is weak: the mouth is almost a straight line, and its low placement makes it feel detached.

Across both sheets, the dark brows sometimes appear to sit on top of the bangs. Several open mouths have angular edges and a conspicuous dark-to-pink split. The U mouth nearly disappears on the youth and becomes a tiny vertical mark on the woman. The revised O mouths also look narrower and less rounded than Before.

The three highest-impact changes for the next round:

1. Rebuild U and O as visible, rounded openings: make U a small pursed oval and O a larger, taller oval, with smooth contours.
2. Raise the Sad mouths to the normal mouth position and give them a subtle downturned curve; soften the low-contrast youth mouth enough to remain visible.
3. Separate Surprised and Shout: widen and round the surprised eyes and mouth; give Shout a taller, larger opening and stronger brows. Keep brow segments behind the bangs.

Woman: Joy, Smile, Angry, Shout and the A/I/E mouths read clearly. Shout is more forceful than Before, though its angular mouth and exposed red lower area look pasted on. Surprised reads as alarm or shouting: the raised brows help, but the wide, dark mouth is too similar to Shout. Sad has a clearer frown, although the brows and half-lidded eyes still suggest tiredness. Smug reads mainly as a wink; the asymmetric brow and mouth are too subtle to establish the expression. U and O are distinct, but U is a tiny dot and O is angular rather than round. The Wink has stray lash-like marks below the closed eye. Across the round, dark brow lines sit conspicuously on top of the bangs.

Youth: Joy, Smile, Angry, Surprised, Shout and Wink read well. Surprised and Shout now have distinct mouth proportions, though both mouths are sharply polygonal and the red lower fill is prominent. Sad remains close to Neutral: the brows suggest concern, but the mouth is almost flat and the eyes look unchanged. Smug reads through the half-lidded eye, but its mouth is faint. A, I and E read; U is an unnaturally thin vertical slit, while O is slightly too angular. The visible brow lines over the hair are also stronger than Before.

Three priorities for the next round:

1. Round and clean up U/O mouths on both bodies. Make U a small, compact oval with enough width to remain legible; give O a larger, smooth rounded opening.
2. Differentiate emotion mouths: narrow the woman’s Surprised mouth, retain Shout’s wider opening, and smooth the angular edges and red lower fills on both bodies.
3. Refine expression lines: strengthen Sad with a gentle downturned mouth and worried brows; give Smug a clearer asymmetric smile, remove the woman’s stray wink lashes, and soften brows where they cross hair.

Both characters retain their identity and readable blue or amber eyes. The current mouths have more depth, but the dark interiors and red lower accents sometimes look pasted on.

• Neutral and Smile: Both read cleanly, though Smile is very subtle and close to Neutral. The new brows are prominent over the bangs.
• Joy: Both read as happy through the closed eyes and open mouth. The woman’s mouth is especially clear; the youth’s is slightly small.
• Angry and Shout: Both read through the slanted brows, with Shout strengthened by the larger mouth. The brows cut visibly across the hair, and the shout mouths have angular edges.
• Sad: The woman’s downturned mouth and worried brows read clearly. The youth’s mouth is so faint that the expression depends almost entirely on the brows.
• Surprised: The raised brows help both, but the eyes remain close to neutral. The woman’s small mouth reads more like a quiet “O”; the youth’s narrow opening looks strained.
• Wink and Smug: Smug reads better in both thanks to the asymmetrical mouth. The woman’s wink has stray, disconnected lash marks; the youth’s closed eye is a long, thin wedge.
• Lip sync: A, I and E are distinguishable. U is very narrow on the youth, while O and A are somewhat similar. The red accent at the bottom of several mouths looks like a separate stripe.

The three most useful next changes:

1. Refine brow layering: Mask or soften brows behind the bangs and shorten their ends, while keeping the angry and worried angles.
2. Rebuild both winks: Use one continuous, curved closed-lid line with lashes attached; remove the woman’s stray marks and thicken the youth’s outer corner.
3. Clarify mouth shapes: Give surprise a rounder opening and wider eyes; make U a small rounded pucker, O taller and rounder, and blend the lower-mouth colour into the interior.

The current round improves readability overall, especially Angry, Surprised and Shout. The darker mouth interiors and restrained tongue colour add depth, though several vowel shapes remain too similar.

For the woman, Joy, Angry, Surprised and Shout read clearly: the brows and mouth reinforce each other, and Shout has a convincingly larger opening than Joy. Sad reads, but its tiny, sharply peaked mouth looks more like a worried mark than a natural frown. Smile is gentle but close to Neutral; Smug depends almost entirely on a faint diagonal mouth. Wink has regressed: the closed eye breaks into a short line and scattered lashes, making it look damaged. A and O are very similar horizontal openings, while I is nearly indistinguishable from Neutral.

For the youth, Angry, Surprised and Shout read well, with effective brow angles and wider eyes for surprise. Joy reads as a squint more than fully closed, happy eyes. Smile is barely distinct from Neutral, and Smug is subtle but recognizable from the half-lidded eyes. The wink’s long, flat triangular lash is cleaner than Before but looks stiff. U is still a narrow vertical slit, and U and O need clearer separation.

Across both sheets, the visible brows help expressions, but their dark, uninterrupted arcs sometimes appear painted on top of the bangs rather than visible through them.

The three most useful changes for the next round:

1. Rebuild both winks: use one smooth, slightly curved closed lid with lashes attached to its outer end; remove the woman’s stray marks and soften the youth’s pointed wedge.
2. Separate the vowels: make U a small round opening, O taller and wider, A broader, and I a visibly wider horizontal mouth.
3. Integrate the brows with the hair: reduce their contrast over opaque strands and interrupt or tint them where bangs cross, while retaining the expressive angles.