Beautiful; all your works express glimpses of something profound (to me at least) about the human condition… there is a beautiful pathos and often surreal nature to them, haunting… why are you not on the top row?!
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You’re right, the changes make this piece even stronger, those hands are awesome; subtle pose, great detailing and superb coloring. Love the textural richness of the skin on his head: so many layers to read when you look closer, yet perfectly combined into one strong composition. 6 out of 5 in my book… ! The one shot renders are 
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Freakin` finally top row!
Julian?..please…spill the beans on your zbrush render settings…awesome
and…excellent choice of background
Wow, congratz man, TOP ROW! 
Champaign, not just some beers now!
These hands are a legend anyway.
And guess what, we can vote again. 5* from me then.
Congratulation for your work man, finally it gets the attention that it deserves
Congratulations on Top Row Julian!
Congratz on Top Row with this impressive piece
Congratulations Julian! Thank you so much for sharing all those awesome matcaps, bpr settings and research! You did a great job and this top row is well deserved !
Finally get’s top rowed!!, im happy to see this thread in top row, your skills in technical and artistical aspects are fantastic!, specially in your last pieace that young old man looks even better than the first version!. just a beautiful piece of art!, Congratulations Julian!
congratulation. This is a long time coming…
great work…u really have taken BPR stuff to its best
Congratz for the top row Julian, this is a well deserved one
Congratz!
woah! what a nice surprise late in the evening
I must admit I’m really happy about this and - as odd as it may sound- much less for me than for this little guy who became very special to me, almost as if he was a real person I had to take care for. I guess he’s found his place now and I can let him go 
RawSunlight - Thanks so much for your kind words. I guess your question is already answered 
Etcher - Thanks a lot man. you know… always very appreciated
Silvaticus - Thank you. will you please go further with the ‘Dead Man’ ? still waiting for it
ministerart - I will gladly spill the beans in the next few days. I suppose you are asking about the one shot instant render settings. the settings are actually a mix between render settings and how to set up your shader/material. the rim light that you don’t get that clearly in one BPR render go comes from the material. one shader slot in a tri or quad shader is solely used for that by setting the Fresnel in the shader mixer to +100 which pushes any light reflection to the back. Anyway I’ll post a how to, but meanwhile you can check that part out in the stone shader I posted recently in the 2010 thread right here.
Santis - tack så mycket
michalis - thank you Michalis. Can it be just coffee instead or at least Retsina ( yeah I actually do like Retsina )? I’d really prefer that
BUSNISMANPATRIOT - Thank you man. I noticed you got quite a thing for expressive hands too
zber2- Thank you Sir. much appreciated.
Bomoh - Thanks a lot. Love the Joker-Jack.
Manzarek - Muchas Gracias. What’s up man ? haven’t seen you post in a while. Looking forward to new sculpts of yours.
Congrats on the Top row Julian! Well deserved!
…a Leonard background?
Excellent work!! I’m really pleased for you Julian I had a feeling that this was gonna go Top row, from all of your input into Zbrushcentral you really deserved this.
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