>>714675840>>714676041They tried to add more realistic facial features in 5. The shitty face rigging practices they used for their anime faces, didn't translate well to more fully featured faces. They also changed the way they handle hair and shading.
Street Fighter 4 had 11 character modellers, Street Fighter had 8. So 3 fewer guys on the job.
Character modeller Atsuo Fujimoto, who was first on the list of character modellers in SF4, was demoted down to "character support" in SF5. If we are to take the order in which people are listed as an indication of their importance, that would mean their most important guy was pushed down to a mere support position.
Character modeller Masaki Yoritomi is no longer on the team
Shohei Imamura is no longer on the team
Kazuyuki Kano is no longer on the team
Hiromi Tabuchi
Hiroki Koike
Tsuyoshi Takahashi
Yoshimi Hosaka
Hisashi Sugimoto
Chiharu Hiraga
Takahito Kishi
All no longer on the team. Holy shit! It's worse than even I could have imagined. Their modelling team was replaced entirely. Literally every single character modeller from SF4 is no longer a modeller for SF5.
Well there's your answer. Not deliberately bad. Just poorly executed by an entirely different art team.
You can see what they were shooting for by looking at Ken's 2D artwork for SF5.