hey thank you koreyba. Your last head is very good too!
Hey Luc, you just made the front page of Reddit today!
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cjfpt/one_of_the_most_realistic_3d_portraits_ive_ever/
It’s got people talking 
Hey great thank’s Lee 
I’ll never know how people have such simple lighting setups and get such incredible results. Whenever I try to emulate the lighting mine looks terrible. :lol:
Hehehe, I understand. If it is of any consolatiion when I saw the image I knew that the lips had those abseses, and I thaught to myself, “this guy is a genius!”. So now watching at the reference I get where those came. Congratulations! amazing job!. 
hi folks,
because here is not showing how the skin settings are, I decided to start my own sss2 thread here:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=89687
I will post all settings during the testing process and I will show all maps.
I think learning by doing is good… but this is a community, where you should discuss and share your workflow! and we all can only win by interchanging experience.
awesome dude.
Can u show textures…not full size.
Specular + Diffuse… 
Have u used HDRI lighting with VrayLights ?
Hi dude … really u did beautiful work.I like it very much.Its looking realistic dude.
then wat abt eye lighting, did u use same light for both eye and head or ?
Extremly nice, some of the best cg I’ve ever seen small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond
Hi all,
Think it will be interesting showing you this, I did new eyes set up much more complexe then the other one, they give me full control over everything, funny to play with, and I did a blue eye and think to test it on my portrait character, and what a surprise, it changed him a lot!
I will post soon an exemple of how the light react in the eyes, I must try to do a little vids too, must be cool to see it move.
iNCryo: Hey thank you, glad you like it 
Btw I’m working on a kind of alien head these days.
satjust4u : Hey thank you. I already post it in the thread( the light set up) and yes I use the same light for the eyes and face.
Ustos : Hi, in this final render , I did not used hdri, just 2 Vray lights. Maybe I will show the maps, they are pretty simple.
ETERNAUTA: Hey thank you
So here it is, with blue eyes, I will do an other one with a dark ring on the iris, I will post once it’s done.
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this is amazing!, just one little thing with the eyes… and that is that the pupils should have a tighter outline"sharper" if you look at pictures of eyes the pupil has quite a rigid edge, yours is a bit fuzzy. but great work man!
i can barely tell that it’s not a photo. superb.
thx for answer mate. Eye of ur char unrealy cool. Nice to see it’s construction (i mean wireframe and materials))))))
But if u don’t use HDRI, how u make reflections on his face? I tested SSS2
shader, with Bump, it becomes full of dark little pooints… Do u use Map for environment, in order to do reflections? (Environment and Effects -> BackgroundMap)
And during the Final rendering u make GI - off ?
Then how u use AO in Vray?
Plus rendering without GI and with it makes some different pictures… If u make test
renders without GI and then turn GI on, u’ll have to recorrect lights. Or not?
so many questions. Just because of i’m doing my char at the moment and find
ur thread here…))))
Wonderful work! Very realistic. Congratulations!small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond:)
Incredible!
Indistinguishable from a photo.
Really nice skin and eye quality…
I don´t like the new eyes… they don´t fit to the darker skin and hair… and they look not as real as the last
hi dude thanks for ur reply…and explained abt tat.
But these updated eyes having nice look kind of devil mix with human.
Again i m back with lots of clarification if u wish …
Can u show me ur diffuse map how u did? then abt specular maps?
Hi all, thank’s for the replys.
satjust4u : In older post I explained how I did the diffuse map, I won’t rewrite it sorry and the spec map is pretty simple, just a gray map with the lips and some parts of the face a bit more white for a little more spec, nothing complicated here. What doest the trick I guess is the modeling and the skin pore modeled, that helped a lot to pull out the details. The diffuse is kind of plane since the skin pore are done into the modeling. You need to add details of skin tone on the diffuse that’s it.
Ustos : Yeah the sss2 can make some white ( or dark if you environnement is dark and reflection on)dot , it’s kind of a bug, they are supposed to correct it, but for now you can use a less contrasted bump map since contrasted one seems to worsen the effect. SSS2 has specular component, so that’s what is doing my reflection on his face. For this rendering GI is off, because I wanted a contrasted image, but if you turn it on, yes you may have to ajust the light and turn on scatter indirect ligh in the sss2 (but render time go up a lot!)
anyway hope that help.
So here are some other test, a green one, a new blue one and a dark brown , I love the green one
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I think the blue eye version is the most charismatic one.
really interesting how much impact the eye color has.