In the cutscenes, all of the characters look incredible, with great animation and lighting that makes them look appropriately heroic, scheming, self-righteous, or dastardly. Given how good the cutscenes already look, I was really disappointed with how… flat a lot of the static character portraits look.
I realize that the current portraits are probably placeholders to some degree, but when the art team has more time I really hope that they will revisit these portraits and touch them up so that the characters have an imposing presence even when they aren’t in cut scenes.
In this quick image I put together, the top two images are from cutscenes (YouTube screenshots), and the bottom two images are their portraits. I haven’t done a cutscene/portrait comparison of all the characters, but these two in particular really jumped out at me.