I could not sleep, so I decided it was time to learn to create materials. Once I figured out that I could copy and paste shaders I started having some luck. I’m getting close I think. I wanted to see how well I could do on the skin pores. I’m not sure how to accomplish translucense so I gave the shaders that allowed it around 12% transparency. What I need to figure out now is how to apply the material to the lips without the color bump??? The lips have just a touch of color added in projection master.
Beautiful sculpting, and the skin shader is looking very nice too. Love those expressive lips. The ear lobe looks huge, but I agree with you about the range of ear shapes out there in the real world. 
Thanks Moochie,
I think your right about the lobes. I plan on reducing them a bit.
I decided to call this done so I can move on with other things. There is still plenty wrong but I need to learn more before I can deal with them.
nice blaine! hey i seen dem eyes before! what did you wind up doing on the lips? texture?
That really is very good! Great progress! There ain’t much wrong with this guy, that’s for sure. Nice work, citizen.
It’s a wip so you surely already thought to it but I tell you:
Try to chose a bit more specular material for the limbs and give it a little more red color.
WANNA LOOK?
MattHHH
Hi all,
Pete - The lips are the same as before. The polys got to high. Thats part of the reason I got interested in Moochies low poly head challenge, to learn to keep the counts down. I need to learn about mapping and UV’s and such.
Moochie - Thanks for the encouragement. Thanks for the challenges too! I know how valuable time can be. This is without question the best board I’ve ever seen. For someone like me who does’nt know a UV from a VW Bus its value is infinite
Matt - I’ve got this up on 3 monitors right now and the color is great on one and lousy on the other 2. The one I use mainly for this at home is matched to a printer and scanner for printing photo’s and has much richer colors and shows more detail than most monitors. It seems to be way out of whack for the web though. The colors were picked from skin samples. On my secretaries monitor, everything looks orange and washed out which is what your probably seeing. I’m recallibrating (is there such a word?) all my equipment at home this weekend and I need to figure out a way to match more what others see on the web. Keep up the critiques though - I need them. I know squat about CG other than photography and Photo Shop.
This should be closer to what I’m seeing. Then again, maybe not. After looking at the difference in monitors in my office I can’t be sure what anyone is seeing?
Realy great progres man, realy fast…
hi blaine
cool head so far…keep it up!!
I have a question for you…what did you use to calibrate all your stuff to your printer and scanner? Somewhere I have a link to a website to help ya do all that but if I remember right it was so involved I keep putting it off so am wondering if ya had something easier. even between monitors the icc info is so different and they are made by the same folks and it seems that digital and analog make a big difference…I get a headache thinking about it but would really like to have all things close. So any help in that direction would be an I owe ya one.
Aminuts - Thanks. I think I already owe you. I’ve been experimenting until recently when I realized I spend thousands on software for a hobby but nothing on making sure I have accurate colors. Up to now I’ve been spending hours tweaking stuff and getting as close as I could. I think I get way out of whack with the sRGB space that I think is the general standard on the web? I just bought Pantone ColorVision’s Spyder2Pro and PrintFix in a bundle with the software, targets etc… I’m hoping to find time to figure it all out this weekend. I need to get all my monitors in the ballpark at least. I’d be glad to let you know how it goes and if the investment is worth it. The price was not too bad. I think it was around $400 US. If I learn any tricks I’d be happy to share. I’ve got a web site in my favorites at work that has great info as well. I’ll post the link here tommorrow.
anyways that is the one I was talking about earlier…one of these days I need to devote some time to it. If nothing else I’ll end up with a better understanding of my toys and how they work…whether or not they play well together.
http://www.normankoren.com/color_management.html
This is a photo site but has lots of good stuff on color management. After reviewing this morning, I think my only option is new monitors at work 
I just realized I’ve been through two new systems since I bought a new monitor for work. My home monitor is an 800 to 1 contrast ratio and I think these are 200 to 1. I read recently about a high dynamic range monitor. Has anyone had any experience with these? As I recall the price was astronomical:mad:
thanks for the link…this is one I definitely lost when moving things to this computer.
I have the mastering digital printing book listed on that page which is pretty good but lacking in some areas in which I’da preferred more info in but that’s what the wonderful www is for.
I wish us both luck here.
waiting for updates. looking great so far!
I had the lips perfect in Projection Master but now I’ve lost all the detail? Is there a way that I’m missing to preserve the detail I see while in Projection Master???
In answer to your question Blaine, if you haven’t already figured it out, is that projection master just moves around the existing geometry to try and match the image you draw in PM mode. Therefore, if you’re losing a lot of detail, increase the mesh density before doing the PM by subdividing more.
vivien
Thanks - got a lot going on, I’ll probably do some this weekend.
Stuh505
Yes, I’ve been spending time playing with PM and experimenting. Thanks
Thanks Matt - Your Face Hugger is awesome