I've tried to get contact with every person who was working on NexLand during the period of 2000-2004, including Cappucino & Espresso, and only one person got to talk to me about this subject, though because of privacy reasons, I won't say his name. This project will show every concept art that he sended me, ranging from oldest to newest.
These notepad paper photos were made using his smart phone, because he didnt trusted me enough to get to his location or vice-versa to see the concept art. In the third image, he explained that the reason they choosed to remove the face out of the chosen avatar is because the face did not render properly in the 2-D client, making them have to not use faces for the avatars until much later in development.