Beautiful art!
You say you use 3dsmax for rendering. I would absolutely love to see you put together some kind of breakdown of your basic process for this. I know a lot of people get pretty overwhelmed when they try dive into mental ray, the SSS fast skin material, displacement, and render settings. You seem to have a solid, reproducible process. Lay it down for us, man! 
-Dustin
thanks guys really appreciate the comments
hey dustin, I wish i had some valuable info to give you, but my process is very simple.
I use vray, and I dont use any fancy shaders or anything, in fact i just use standard shaders.
Heres a screen of the setup
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I use one vray light, just to get that north facing light effect. I also put in a background just to get the light to bounce. I then turn on irradiance map and put the preset to medium and hit render.
Now keep in mind I do post in photoshop, and without it the renders look very plain and digital.
try playing around with the exposure that could give you some nice effects, and just expirement with different tools, sometime I might not be happy with something, and then I play around with curves and the all of a sudden the image has something interesting to look at.
Hope that helps, lemme know
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Hi Zicarious! Thanks for reposting the Martian! Iāve been following your thread since you posted the clay sculpts, donāt know why I didnāt subscribe sooner 
! Beautiful works, lookin forward to you new stuff! 
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the manhunter is stunning, and your superman is blowing my mind! I would love to see your take on the whole JLA.
haha, what the H.E. double hockey sticks did you do to his feet?
Actually yeah, I just discovered the other night that messing around with the exposure settings in max makes a huge difference. I use mentalray instead of vray, but same difference essentially. If you ever feel like giving yourself a headache you should dive in to the skin shaders. Iāve been mucking about with them in my free time for a few weeks and Iām finally starting to wrap my brain around what all of the settings do. Thanks for the screen grab, man.
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Love this thread =]
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Hi again Zicarious. Is there a touch of lens aberration in these rendersā¦if so, is it done in vray on in post? I guess postā¦but you never know.
Can you post a pre and post photoshop render?
You have to rock a Wonder Woman!
frischluft - flair : is a nice way to rock lens aberrationsā¦
really great.
This is amazing!, looks so creepy and i love it 
hey guys thanks again for the comments, makes me wanna post more
Giantsun: yep it is done in post
mcteapot: Wonder Woman it is haha, it would be a good chance to do a female.
Nattawat_OBBI: Thank you very much.
Manzarek123: thanks, im glad you like it.
Killahpriest: Heres the render I had before i did anything to it in photoshop, and the result of the same render is in the previous page.
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hey hey!! nice to see you postin again man!! always a treat to see your works!
thanks for the lighting breakdowns, they always come in handy
some of the best body forms, proportions and sculptural feel. great artwork.
Nerveink: Hey buddy, thanks for droping by, and thanks for the comments, I see youve been keeping busy.
threetails: some of the best comments ive gotten haha, thank you very much. By the way I loved your Hero entry.
Some significant improvents happening here, I love the sculpt of the leaning old man.
What school do u attend again?
Great work sir.
Mike: Hey mike, I went to humber college and the florence academy of art. thanks for the comments.
Heres a creature im working on now, i started it today and thought id post WIP screens.
Hope yaāll like it.
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