Wildsketch, Atwooki - this is the first finished character i have do, using sss fast skin of mental Ray. so i simply paint my maps based on the online help of 3dsmax… and after paint a basic colors i was try a lot of combination of this maps, the most credible i show for you in the imgs posted… im not sure if this is the best painted maps, and i will continue tryng others colors…
thanks for comments, and if i guess more cool results, i will post here…
x-titan, the lighting is very simple,one mr spot area light to key light, and one Mr omni area light to back light, the secret is put a high value on the area shadows to get a very softnes shadows. so i created a sphere to enviroment and turn off the visible to camera, so i can get the alpha of the guy, and turn on final gather. one pass of ambient occlusion and other with the zdeph information… the rest is photoshop post production…
thanks guys.
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