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Question about human textures
It's very interesting to read all these replies. I personally don't _generally_ find makeup prettier at all. More striking, but also more fake and therefore often less attractive. I tend to like no makeup photos as much or more than ones with.
In fact, I tend to be able to gauge how good a movie is by how much makeup they put on their female actors, depending on the situation. When a post-apocalyptic warrior looks like she just got out the beauty salon, or a medieval maid looks like she's about to go out on the catwalk, then it breaks both my suspension of disbelief and my enjoyment. I want to see the actress, not the makeup artist's work.
Which isn't to say I'm trying for tons of flaws in my artwork, either. At least not so far.
My Lady Rose is my first character, so it's hard for me to say how much I succeeded in what I tried to do. I gave her a default base that was her without any makeup, and therefore some variation in pigmentation on her skin, darkening and reddening around her eyes, and other aspects that I found in my references for her skin tone. I used both photo resources and hand painting to try to match the bare-faced references I hunted the web for. I tried to balance realism and artistic effect in both her texture and shading. Then when it came to make up, I looked for whole faces I liked. So I didn't end up with interchangeable lips and such. Each set is foundation, brows, eye shadow, eyeliner, and lipstick together. The last one I used Liv Tyler's Lord of the Rings makeup as a reference, because I thought it was a perfect balance for fantasy renders.
I also made the brows a separate mask. V4's extra geometry makes morphs more problematic and would probably mess up SSS shading in Superfly. Cycles has an issue with transparent areas in SSS- I contacted Brecht about it and it can only be fixed by using the new random walk method that Superfly doesn't support. And just in general, you don't want to add geometry when you don't need it. It was dead easy to setup both Firefly and Superfly materials with a brow mask that allows my Rose's brows to be any color you want them to be.
I made Lady Rose the type of character I'd want to buy. I pretty much never find one that has a bare-faced option that doesn't look airbrushed, and I almost never never find one that has brows that can change color to match hair.
In fact, I tend to be able to gauge how good a movie is by how much makeup they put on their female actors, depending on the situation. When a post-apocalyptic warrior looks like she just got out the beauty salon, or a medieval maid looks like she's about to go out on the catwalk, then it breaks both my suspension of disbelief and my enjoyment. I want to see the actress, not the makeup artist's work.
Which isn't to say I'm trying for tons of flaws in my artwork, either. At least not so far.
My Lady Rose is my first character, so it's hard for me to say how much I succeeded in what I tried to do. I gave her a default base that was her without any makeup, and therefore some variation in pigmentation on her skin, darkening and reddening around her eyes, and other aspects that I found in my references for her skin tone. I used both photo resources and hand painting to try to match the bare-faced references I hunted the web for. I tried to balance realism and artistic effect in both her texture and shading. Then when it came to make up, I looked for whole faces I liked. So I didn't end up with interchangeable lips and such. Each set is foundation, brows, eye shadow, eyeliner, and lipstick together. The last one I used Liv Tyler's Lord of the Rings makeup as a reference, because I thought it was a perfect balance for fantasy renders.
I also made the brows a separate mask. V4's extra geometry makes morphs more problematic and would probably mess up SSS shading in Superfly. Cycles has an issue with transparent areas in SSS- I contacted Brecht about it and it can only be fixed by using the new random walk method that Superfly doesn't support. And just in general, you don't want to add geometry when you don't need it. It was dead easy to setup both Firefly and Superfly materials with a brow mask that allows my Rose's brows to be any color you want them to be.
I made Lady Rose the type of character I'd want to buy. I pretty much never find one that has a bare-faced option that doesn't look airbrushed, and I almost never never find one that has brows that can change color to match hair.
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
though I don't do much closeup work I prefer more realistic skins and morphs/shapes for my work. Human skin is splotchy and modulated not perfectly smooth and blemish free. Even at a distance it shows if well done. Would be nuce to get super hi res textures for those closeup and a second set of lower res textures with same realistic modulation throughout for the full body medium and wide iview images. I hate bikini lines and it the artist can offer with hair and without hair I jump for joy.
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
Hm!? Never got ANY textures for V$ with separate brow materials. I got the A to Z texture set for v2 and that was a great value offering many skin options within one set but never found something similar for V4. Which set offers this option?
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
Hell they even have airbrush make up applicators now fo the same look. Add to that the spray-on suntan and voila Plastic is chic!
Dreamer
Dream Weaver Designs
Danged if I can remember now, its been that long since I used V4. I know I did on my own sets but beyond that I can't recall though I know I had some