This is a personal project that I have been working on. The piece is created in ZBrush and rendered in Maya - Mental Ray. I made a few small adjustments in Photoshop and I combined my render layers such as my ambient occlusion and depth map. If you want to see more of my work, please visit me at Facebook or Youtube! :)

-I`ve got many questions about the hair. Again, I tend to think like traditional, punching those hairs into a silicone head so I do it by hand, without plugins or scripts. It looks like would take forever to finish but you can place them faster than you think. Also, MUCH quicker than one by one with a needle. Having many variations as possible is key here. Also, single hairs black or white tend to make things pop as they contrast with the others. I paint my alpha cards on photoshop, duplicate it, boost the lightness and then copy to the alpha channel. Export them as TGA 32bits and you are ready to go. I place them inside 3ds max and constantly check rendering and going to marmoset on my pre-set lighting studio. Color, specular and shadows tend to vary in these conditions so I`d do the hair by the end of the project. If you are familiar with 3ds max, I use the bend and twist modifier to help me create directions for different hairs. I also use the layer system so I have more control for later adjustments. For the difuse of those hairs, I use just a plain gradient or the painted hairs. It`ll depend on the color and varitions/limitations I`m going for. -Regarding the skin shader and marmoset rendering, no big deal. Just playing with those values, always using real photo reference. I find myself setting the shader using only the sky light and then tweaking with the lights on. I have a gloss map, normal map, normal detail map (generic noise), translucency map, and a cavity map to help me breaking the spec. If you have any questions about the shader, let me know. Those values can vary from different scales and light conditions. -The leather jacket was also a skin shader based material. The Subdermis Scatter helps to break down the shadows a bit and also give more of the leather look to it. I`ve extracted the normals from zbrush, generated a generic noise to use as a detail normal map, painted some gloss based on the cavity extracted from zbrush. The difuse/Albedo was painted in zbrush and tweaked in photoshop. I also painted some black and white masks in zbrush to create variations on difuse and reflection. That`s it. Hope it helps you to understand a bit my process. Feel free to add or comment below. I`d love to hear your thoughts. My best, Glauco Longhi

Here is the next step. Fingers need cleaning, did some small design stuff, a couple more detail things and I think I'll be ready for low-poly. All the joints in the fingers work, after trial and error, and need cleaning, but the result should be nice.

Hey folks, Recently I had an opportunity to play with Arnold skin shader. The textures were painted with ZBrush polypaint, then I made adjustment in Photoshop to make the final textures for the Shallow, Mid and Deep scatter layers. Displacement and Bump made in Zbrush too. I had too overdrive the dispalcement and bump settings otherwise Skin Shader suppressed the details. And the result is:

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Hey everyone! This one was a Maya/Mental ray piece from couple years back, I'm just redigging into it now and am going to do a lightly detailed zbrush pass on a couple scenes. Funny seeing all the different tricks I used BEFORE I had dug into the great ZBRUSH :P full animation is here. WOO ZEEEBRUSH

Hey!! here I share you some images with the process for this piece. I hope you like it 1.References 2.Exploring Shapes 3. Cleaning mesh 4.Details - alphas 5.Panel Loops 6. Alien Sculpt 7. BPR Render Passes