d-larsen opened this issue on May 11, 2004 ยท 37 posts
d-larsen posted Tue, 11 May 2004 at 2:14 PM
No Rawn, I don't mind the comments and they are appreciated. This project started 2 dyas ago when the old complaints about Michael's genitals arose again. I thought it can't be that difficult to do realistic genitals for Michael. So, I did a little research grabbed some porno(not from my personal collection, by the way) and mapped out the textures. When I applied them I found the problem lies with texturing to the body. I haven't created the tone MAT's to change the skin tone on the genitals yet. The complaint that came out of that thread was the perfectness of all the Michael Textures available, so I thought I'd make a quick Freebie based upon the complaints. I took a Real Skin Head texture I was working on and a different medium res body texture I had already made and mixed them up. The skin color differences arose from blending the tone of the body texture, which was tanned, and toning the face texture to match close enough. Obviously, I didn't spend enough time blending the tones for a high quality texture. Also, if you are male, check out your own package and I think you'll find that your genital coloring doesn't really match you skin color either. Overall, your comments are right on and are definitely appreciated. I will spend some more time cleaning up some of the skin tones before I start giving him away because I don't want to release anything, even a freebie that's inferior. I may not have as much experience as most folks here, but I do have the same amount of pride. In order to grow as an artist and as a human being, one must be prepared to accept criticism as a fact, and apply it's intent to the project at hand in order to truly grow beyond the experience. (Oh wow, where did that come from, somehow I just flashed back to one of my 70's Zen philosophy seminars!)Thanks again, and if you see anything else please, don't hesitate! Dale