Yep - FastScatter is awesome for some nice effects. But she has ended up a little see-through in the renders above. IMHO, skin realism comes mainly from skin tone and highlights. Other things like definition, wrinkles, etc help, but the skin tone is the biggie, and highlights are critical. Skin tone is largely dictated from light travelling through the skin and exiting somewhere else (ie. subsurface scattering) - but it's the front-facing sss which is important. Backfacing sss is more for the "glowing ear" look. Front facing sss is light coming from roughly the angle of the camera, going through the skin and popping out elsewhere (often in a shadowed area - coloring it red). Thus...the importance of some sort of fake front-facing sss - and the tutorial provides a method of doing that (although I'm sure there are other methods - I just haven't seen any yet that work well with Poser).

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