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Tina T for Dawn & Tommy T for Dusk - Anime type figures
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Decided to make a hair prop today. Had fun doing this. Learned some more about the various brushes in ZBrush but you know I ended up going back to what I like working with (Move, Standard in both + & - mode) and the Smoothing brush along with some of the "Deformation" tools. This is actually a conformer so no worrying about the longer pieces in the back and sides digging in with various poses (so far so good). The UV mapping, low and behold, came out perfect so just applying one of my hair shaders (still working on those for public consumption) gave me a perfect effect. The flow of the textures flow perfectly around the ears, perfectly on the sideburns and all the rest. I about fainted when I saw how perfectly ZBrush UV'd this! Seriously!
So Tommy, Toon Skin, Toon Hair, Dusk briefs, One of my upcoming poses (which I just finished with getting them over to Poser and looking very nice and working perfectly).
So Tommy, Toon Skin, Toon Hair, Dusk briefs, One of my upcoming poses (which I just finished with getting them over to Poser and looking very nice and working perfectly).
Another..... My older Hair Strands do not work very well with this but my new ones that I'm working on to improve on the old work very very well! PS. No morphs, so far. There really isn't much to move around. I could create some morphs to perhaps shorten the sideburns, pop up the pompadour more, little things like that but the hair is a simple props.
Been busy again today with all this stuff. Fun fun fun....
Been working away trying to create some 3DL Skin SHADERS which makes my life a little easier getting settings from one figure to another. So made one for the Cornea, Iris, Sclera, Lacrimal and Skin. Still need to do one for for the nails. In order for me to get these characters wrapped up I need them in iRay and 3DL in some form or another. Weirdly enough I can not get my head around how to make eyes shinny wet looking with reflective quality that I like. Since Tina and Tommy are Toons for the most part I needed something over the top and well SSS and Uber were failing me so went back to good old DS Default settings and got a good result. Not sure if it's OK to release a character with varying shader surfaces like that but unless I can have someone jump in and school me about how to make such surfaces using Uber or AoA's SSS I'll stick with what I know...
Here are 3 renders. One showing the eyes. One a bit further out (skin still looks a little flat, it's an Uber SSS based skin) and the BlueBlu HairStrands for Fashionista, also converted over to the 3DL shader system but it's highlights are slightly over the top so will need to adjust those a bit more. Once I have a shader base for that I'll save that out as a 3DL SSS Hair Shader base so my conversions will go faster. I have a total of 40 hair color options for Fashionista about half fantasy, half real world!
Been working away trying to create some 3DL Skin SHADERS which makes my life a little easier getting settings from one figure to another. So made one for the Cornea, Iris, Sclera, Lacrimal and Skin. Still need to do one for for the nails. In order for me to get these characters wrapped up I need them in iRay and 3DL in some form or another. Weirdly enough I can not get my head around how to make eyes shinny wet looking with reflective quality that I like. Since Tina and Tommy are Toons for the most part I needed something over the top and well SSS and Uber were failing me so went back to good old DS Default settings and got a good result. Not sure if it's OK to release a character with varying shader surfaces like that but unless I can have someone jump in and school me about how to make such surfaces using Uber or AoA's SSS I'll stick with what I know...
Here are 3 renders. One showing the eyes. One a bit further out (skin still looks a little flat, it's an Uber SSS based skin) and the BlueBlu HairStrands for Fashionista, also converted over to the 3DL shader system but it's highlights are slightly over the top so will need to adjust those a bit more. Once I have a shader base for that I'll save that out as a 3DL SSS Hair Shader base so my conversions will go faster. I have a total of 40 hair color options for Fashionista about half fantasy, half real world!
Got the separate morphs done for TinaT... So there is now a TinaT Head morph, TinaT Body morph (at Dawn's body scale) and the Full Body Morph of TinaT that has her about a head shorter than Dawn.....
Here she is sporting three of my poses from my Training Poses for Dawn pack, in the Hive store...
Also sporting the Auburn options for the Fashionista Hair. Rendered in 3Delight, DAZ Studio
Here she is sporting three of my poses from my Training Poses for Dawn pack, in the Hive store...
Also sporting the Auburn options for the Fashionista Hair. Rendered in 3Delight, DAZ Studio
Finally got Tina looking the way I want. I've "Tooned" her up a bit more. Bigger eyes, tinier waist line, smoothed out the neck a bit more and adjusted the teeth so when she smiles she doesn't look like a horse face! lol This is a 3Delight render. I was trying to use the Uber setup but my tester kept getting white outs so there is something very off about Uber on my system and I'm not sure how to fix it so these are just basic maps but making use of the Ambient channel (were I plugged in the Glossy maps, set the color to a medium gray and set it at about 35%) and the Reflection channel, where I plugged in her diffuse maps and set that about 35% too. Looks pretty close to what I got with the Uber so I'm happy with it.
Working on the internal maps too like the Bump and Displacement maps since using a Normal map under the base 3Delight engine gives me zero control over the strength of the map. So in order to get a good Displacement map I basically, here's a trick, took the Normals into Photoshop, desaturated them to gray scale and saved those out as new displacement maps which then I have control and get all the really nice strong details. What I've noticed though with these maps is that Shader Map Pro, which is where I make my internal maps, I don't know... there is TOO much detail in the hands so close ups of them have these strange bumpy messy looking details. So I'm going to replace allot of these with desaturated maps from the original textures so soften those up without loosing stuff like knuckle and other important hand details. Did this for her lips and nose and am very pleased with how they look when rendered out now....
Working on the internal maps too like the Bump and Displacement maps since using a Normal map under the base 3Delight engine gives me zero control over the strength of the map. So in order to get a good Displacement map I basically, here's a trick, took the Normals into Photoshop, desaturated them to gray scale and saved those out as new displacement maps which then I have control and get all the really nice strong details. What I've noticed though with these maps is that Shader Map Pro, which is where I make my internal maps, I don't know... there is TOO much detail in the hands so close ups of them have these strange bumpy messy looking details. So I'm going to replace allot of these with desaturated maps from the original textures so soften those up without loosing stuff like knuckle and other important hand details. Did this for her lips and nose and am very pleased with how they look when rendered out now....
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Not sure if this is the right place for this, and sorry if you have a hair thread that I missed.
I know nothing about hair, but I have been wondering if you could transmap this hair style out of the fashionista hair. Sort of a chipped bob. It's already nearly there in the front.
I know nothing about hair, but I have been wondering if you could transmap this hair style out of the fashionista hair. Sort of a chipped bob. It's already nearly there in the front.