Jester (and other stuff)

[animelix]

now for something different, not a car or building... -a nice guy...

comments are welcome

greetz elix

[Down Rodeo]

Nice, I really like the textures on the torso

[Radiance]

nice

he's a bit too shiny though, looks like he's made out of plastic...

Radiance

[LKS321]

I am confused what the ball in the sky is.

[animelix]

hi, i think the ball looks ok, like a very small scifi-element

another projekt: an old pistol (1675) used as a material testing objekt, overnight rendering
Edit: 15:10hours, core2duo, 988 S/px

[Radiance]

Hey,

that looks very good

i like the wood texture on the handle.

do post it in the gallery

Radiance

[Carbonflux]

here is my recipe for skin in lux: mix .90-95 depending on type of skin. mat1: matt with uv texture, mat2: mix: .8-9.5 mat1: mattranslucent, mat2: substrate.
tweaking that gets me the look I want, but if you show a image in bright sun light people will always say its too shinny because they know its computer generated, in fact look at print images of human skin with the same eye and it will also seem "to shiny." The texture is key also, you can use scans of real skin even. The hard part really is volume and softness, the head is going to be a lot shinier then the arm etc. for now what I do is tweak the mattrans/substrate mix on body vs head.

What really is required to do it right imo is a SSS map, which I might attempt to fake by generating a mix map for the second texture mattrans/substrate mix.

Nice work, figures are hard, they are center of all my work and I have all kinds of tweaked workflows for generating them so I respect anyone that risks putting one in a rendering and then shows it to others, one ends up taking a lot of hits.

[animelix]

a new image: toskana-style, sunsky rendered ca 40h

[Radiance]

Hey,

Looking *very* good

Would be cool if you can tweak it a little further and render it till it's clean,
it would make a good front page rendering (along with some others which have been recently posted) for the new site

I'd tweak your materials a bit (less gloss/specular on the doors at the back), and less bump on the left arches.
maybe also tweak the left plant a bit

Radiance

[animelix]

yes, i will render it again, but it could take some time... maybe end of september...