slimy tentacles / SSS Research and Materials

[Thomaskl]

ok, its a quite easy setup. Just the geometry and a backlight, opposite of the camera. The Material is just a diffuse-Color with glossy refraction, transluescency and fog color. I added some glossy reflection, to add some more color variation by using a spherical HDRI Image.
GI is enabled but only with "low" settings.




I will make a small Scene with the material included. Regards,
Thomas

[Thomaskl]

ok, here is the max file. Its max7 and Vray 1.47.03. You can use any HDRI you want to use, i just switched to the famous kitchen_probe. :-)
Regards,

Thomas

[Abyssis]

Hey Thomas: it looks exactly disgusting I like

Keep it up...

[Tim Leydecker]

Hey Thomas,

never saw such a beautiful cloesup of an Alien organ before.
Looks fantastic, tastes delicious I guess.

Cheers

tim

[coye]

Did I mention I had a thing for Cephalopods?

[Thomaskl]

Hope you can do something with the material. At least, it`s not the material, which makes the image. Lighting and geometry and composition is more important....
good luck,

regards,
thomaskl

[tonyb]

Thank you for having posted the settag gis of the mat of vray!!

[Frenchy Pilou]

...in Zb with materials and astucious lights ?

ps Your render is some crazzy

[Ron Harris]

Silly question time.....can anything be done or rather rendered in zbrush to this level? If so, someone please explain how?

The images presented here are so so so cool and photo realistic ...

How about maybe a Slimy Tentacles Plugin or something I know we have some brainiacs on the forum that love challenges like that...

I am not as much of a z-purist as I once was, but many of us own limited programs or only zbrush itself, so to achieve work close to this in zbrush alone would be a stupdenous step...

Ideas?


Again, simple but intricate and realistic work....

Ron
catfishmn@aol.com

ps. i dated the girl in the last image...we only went out once...she ate way too much

[billrobertson42]

Silly question time.....can anything be done or rather rendered in zbrush to this level? If so, someone please explain how?

I kind of doubt that you could do it directly, but if you were clever you could probably get it 90% of the way there and paint the last 10% by hand.

[frogspasm]

Dude, that last one is really freaking disgusting.
I love it.
Looks like my boogers through a microscope..

Now animate them

9 Hours is crazy, though. You have DOF on right? I bet you could do that in post and drop your render times way down.

~Mike D.

[Thomaskl]

would be quite cool, to get similar results directly out of Zbrush. The SSS Effect is based on blurred refractions and internal fog. I am not sure, if you can fake such an effekt with the Zbrush-onboard Tools. I do remember a wax-material which was posted here some time ago.

Yeah, rendertimes are quite crazy. But faking DOF in post-process never produces a realistic DOF. Especially when lights do burn...So i rather take the longer rendertimes than having unrealistic DOF...:-)

But i would like to see a nice SSS Effect out of Zbrush...Come on, you Shader-Z-Gurus ! Give it a try !


Best Regards,

Thomas

[jantim]

Its not total SSS, but its the best i can render at this moment !



shadows and fog ar not perfect, but its a start .

jantim

[Thomaskl]

didn`t think that you can come this far. Cool !
well, it has the same feeling...Some aspects are still missing but i think this material is a good start !
I am not sure, how far you can go inside Zbrush with the lighting.
Could you please share the material, to get an idea, how you approached ?

Best Regards and thx,

Thomaskl

[Frenchy Pilou]

Let's go jantim
9 hours is enormous for a little worm
Sometime purist challenge can make advance the ZB science
Pilou
Ps And who is remembered the Digits Zif Worms thread ? old

And new zif Worm version?
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