Dragon Blade uses a fully custom skinned mesh avatar. Here’s the latest iteration of the character creator. Initially I had Mii-style 2D decal noses, but I wasn’t happy with it so I just added these simple 3D meshes, inspired by Animal Crossing, which I think look much better.
We’re now nearing the end of private Alpha and will be going into a public Beta phase within a few weeks. If you want to play it now, join us on Discord: rNGKBqJCQj