Head of a Woman

[Rodin]

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It is about 10 layer comp, the base diffuse layer renders in 9 minutes at 3k. The most expensive part is of course the hair, which renders in about 20 minutes. The hair was done with a proprietary in-house hair plugin. I did that so I could learn their system. You can see the guide curves in the GL above. The problem with doing it that way ended up being that their hair system could only handle so many segments before it would crash on me, hence the tessellation issues when you look at the 3k. The one I am working on now is being done with the Maya hair system, which has issues of it’s own, but I need to learn it.

The peachfuzz was done in Maya fur, and the eyelashes were done with Paint Effects converted to polys.

Here are the layers. A few of them have been combined, like the hair, eyelashes and eyebrows.

Wow, Jeremy your work is exquisite. So incredibly lush. There’s a lot of amazing work on this site, but yours really stood out to me as extremely rich. Thanks for posting.

If you don’t mind, I have a question about how you’ve rendered out separate layers as pictured above.

I’m running into issues with wanting to render with both Mental Ray (because of the nice way it handles normal maps from ZBrush) and also wanting to include Maya’s Paint FX for the hair.

From what I’ve read, Paint FX will only render with Maya’s Software renderer. So, I’ve seen where it’s suggested that if you want to include Paint FX and also do Mental Ray that you should render out each separately and then composite the two. Is this a similar technique to what you’re doing? If it is, what application are you using to do your compositing?

Thanks again for sharing your amazing work.

[Kerem]

You are the best 3D artist I’ve ever seen my dear friend.