Did the devs say anything about basing this character on Mariska Hargitay? Because I don't see it.

here is one with mariska sporting shorter, darker hair just like her heavy rain counterpart.

Sigh, it wasn't about the hair. Face shape is different, eye shape is different, mouth shape is different. You can push eyebrow shape being somewhat similar. Nose is also different. Cheekbones are also different. So now basing a person off another requires jsut taking eye color and eyebrow shape?

The cheek bones, the eye shape, and the nose are all different...

The only resemblese between the two are the eye and hair colour...

oh and they both have ears :p

maybe it is my natural artistic eye for things(im an artist) but I see many similarities.
Look at the
-cheek bone structure
-head shape
-eye color
-eye shape
-lip width
-hair
-etc

Maybe that was an earlier set up, but what forevercloud has jsut linked us is nowhere even close to the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley are where Beowulf and The Polar Express sit in terms of digital renders of humans. What he jsut showed does not even come close to that.

Also, I thought Uncanny Valley was a bad thing?

The untrained eye may not be able to see them but I can.
their face shape is virtually identical. You simply are confuse because of the difference of when their mouth is open, stretched, and closed. Eye color AND shape....same. In my mind I always remember mariska with dark hair so it is also easy to see the similarities there. I mean really, look at those cheek bones, the same. They both have this wierd block shape head thing going (still beautiful). The noses are similar at the bridge, not at base though.

The one thing that keeps them apart is the skin age difference. You can tell Mariska is getting in the years, while HR model is portrayed much younger.

As for the Uncanny Valley comment, I know what it means. I was being a tad sarcastic and invertive in my usage of it. When I said that I was saying there are quite a few similarities between the two, bringing them closer to likeness.

I relate Mariska with HR model just as
Law from Tekken is Bruce Lee
Commander Sheperd of Mass Effect looks like the brother from Prison Break
Lei Wulong looks like Jackie Chan
Sephiroth looks like Ziggy Stardust

gosh, you guys get all tense about anything.

You've got to approach the Valley before you can cross it!

Sadly, that's deeper than I usually am...

I'm afraid you're the only one with a properly trained eye then, dude. Sorry.