The character creator doesn't cut it for me right now, for different reasons. My main one is the creator background. It looks nice but it doesn't doesn't show my characters well. Some colors are harder to see(skin mostly) and it's hard to judge a character's real bulk as it will show in-game.

I'd like one or more new backgrounds and something to modify the lightning

Bumpity-bump!

Agreed!
+1 to this.

Make the character stop moving so I can work on his/her face would also be good.