Well, I've decided to take a break from my V4 child project and work on something else for a while.  I've now turned my attention towards seeing if I can create something I found sadly lacking in V4's morph pack: ethnic morphs.

My first stop was the Far East.  Here's a standard V4 with custom textures and my Oriental morph applied.

Here's the recipe of sorts that I came up with:

• clockwise slanted eyes that squint slightly.
• thin eyelids with the fold virtually invisible on the inner half of each eye
• small, simple lacrimals
• slightly widened, round, somewhat flattened nose that points slightly upwards
• high, slightly prominent cheekbones
• small, narrow lips with the top lip being thiner than the bottom
• high jaw angle
• slightly narrowed chin
• slightly rounded, flattened, shortened face

I currently have a first draft of an African morph as well.  Here's the recipe:

• eyes slanted sightly clockwise with the eyelid fold moved down a little
• slightly protruding cheekbones
• wide, slighty flattened nose with large nostrils
• lower edge of septum appears lower than the lower edge of nostrils
• thick lips
• somewhat large jaw

For some reason, I had a keen sense of what made an Asian face Asian, but the other ethnicities aren't quite as easy to parse out into individual feature settings.  Looking at photos only helps somewhat, since none of what I can find are designed to be ethnic reference shots.  I'd like some advice on what the archetypical characteristics are for each of the following broad ethnic categories:

-   Oriental (if you don't think I've got it right already)
-   African
-   European
-   Aboriginal
-   Arab
-   Indian (Southwest Asian)
-   Native American
-   Latina

I have some vague ideas at least, but I think external feedback will improve the accuracy of my morphs.  I'm not sure, but Arabs and Indians may be similar enough that I can combine them into a single morph.  I think Native Americans are only slightly different from Asians, maybe with even higher cheekbones, a less upturned nose, and a slightly lower outer eye corner.  I also think Aborigines are only slightly different from Africans, perhaps only with even more pronounced cheekbones and brows.  For the Latina, I'm debating whether I should create a morph from scratch or simply use an even blend of Native American and European,  This is because I think the Latino ethnicity is little more than the result of various interbreedings between Spaniards and Mayans/Aztecs/Incas compounded over many generations.
Of course, there is great variety even within each of these broad categories, so virtually every feature I include in the morph is a generalization, but that's really all I want.  I'm going for the archetype, the average.

Anyone who can give me ideas as to what features typify any one and any number of these ethnic groups or point me towards any helpful internet resources will have my gratitude!

Thanks!