“2 a.m.
too hot to sleep but good to know it’s over. all the wasted time. what for”
Hello, a new post after lot’s of mental ray tests 
zbrush for sculpting,photoshop and zbrush for texturing and 3d max mental ray for rendering with some post in photoshop
thanks
NO SSS, eh? Nice job )
Wasted time… I think you learned a lot making this nice sculpt. The expression looks real good.
Yep, you have a computer, electric power, Zbrush and you live in Romania.
Now wait for the big industry coming to your nice country?
Do not wait for ‘industry-dirt’ but enjoy the sculpts you make. When you are the cheapest and the best, they will come…
Keep going 
Very nice work, man. Would you mind posting screen shots of your skin material setup?
-Dustin
Hello and thanks for the comments 
Bas Mazur: Yes I learned a lot from this 
dustinbrown: I don’t mind
I’ve used master zap’s “SSS Fast Skin+” http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html
Very cool man, I like the details that took into account. It looks real!
I prefer mental ray too!
Augusto.
looks like real skin did you you use maya for the final render? thanks for sharing your WIP skin maps.
Very nice head! Cool sculpting and good work on the skin
Hey great work man. That shader looks awesome. I am curious to know the scale of your scene considering the sss works off of scene scale?
Thanks for posting your skin setup. I’m curious, why did you decide to use zap’s skin shader vs using the one that is provided with max? What is the benefit? Did you feel limited in some way by the default skin shaders?
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augusto.goicoechea: thank you
moonlitmaverick:thank you.no I used only 3ds max
Captain Sensible:thank you
JokerMartini:it’s almost in real life size but I think is better to keep everithing in exactly real life size or at least that is what I will do :lol:
dustinbrown: hey man,I think this shader gives better reflexions on the details of the face .this is what I read and what I saw in my tests.at the beginning of the project I used the normal shader but after many tests I liked this one more ,but I think is great that you can have this option to pick between this two shaders
i figured everything you made was to scale. What i meant was “What are you units you are using in your head scene?”
Inches or feet?
hey man,sorry my scene uses generic units but I measured in centimeters and the scale is ok
hello, I thought to post a more detailed view
hey thats really nice work on the skin shading! Great head sculpt too!
that face looks awesome!
nice
Thank you Darukin and wethand, I really appreciate it
how did you the displacement? I tried this shader and cannot handle the displacement thing with it… I normaly use V ray dislplacement…
hey pitchepuck, i didn’t use displacement it seems too difficult to use for me so I imported a med res version of the head(23000 polys) and used a normal map generated from zb for the rest of the details and I think it’s close to the zbrush sculpt.
Hey Calin! Very good rendering.
Keep it up