SSE Animal appearance and animations upgrade without changed animals

[DivineAurora]

I'd like a mod that upgrades the models and textures of the animals, as well as their animations (and perhaps adds some more without changing their behavior, leaving that to other mods). The one's I've seen so far usually don't upgrade the models at all, and often change the style of textures so that the animal looks like it might be a different breed or species than the ones native to vanilla skyrim. I'd like one that keeps the general color schemes and patterns of the vanilla ones, making sure the animals look similar to vanilla, but makes them look like more modern game style animals, rather than last generation console critters, and makes them move more realistically.

 

Higher resolution textures, better models, better meshes (?), more complex skeletons, better animations that more closely match the movements of real world creatures, making the fur look more like fur and less like a plastic shape around the animal with spiky bumps or a liney texture, etc.

 

This is only to replace the vanilla animals, no adding new animals, no changing their general behavior, no changing coloration, they should generally look like they are the same breed/species as the vanilla special edition versions.

 

This would include creatures like foxes, wolves, dogs, horses, deer, mammoths, bears, rabbits, hawks, chickens, frostbite spiders, horkers, etc.

 

It could, of course, serve as a basis for other mods that add new animals, change or add to animal behaviors, add more animal animations (thanks to the improved skeletons and models), and so on.

 

Generally the mods I've seen don't seem to do much with the animal models, and they prefer to change the textures and add more types of animals or change the types already there, rather than stick close to the vanilla styles of creatures, and many of them don't change the base vanilla ones directly, leaving them in place.

 

I'd like cows that look like they are alive, and bears that look like they aren't low-res, simple model plastic monsters.

 

Some care should be given to performance of course, Skyrim's engine and many people's games can't handle trying to make them look like animals from Far Cry Primal or Witcher 3 as far as I know, but I'm pretty sure they can get a good bit closer to that level, and farther from the level of things that wouldn't look out of place in Neverwinter Nights 2 or No Man's Sky.