Strelok opened this issue on Feb 05, 2006 ยท 20 posts
dburdick posted Mon, 06 February 2006 at 7:51 PM
Strelok, Lovely image you created. A product like SkinVue would certainly help although for the image you just created you could fix this quite easily manually. First of all, you have too much specular highlighting on the man's face. I would turn the intensity down by at least half. Secondly, you should soften the edges of the shadows by adding 5% softness to the lights which are casting shows on the people. Finally, I would draw some stray head hairs on the man and the woman (in Photoshop of PSP) to add a touch more realism. But overall, I think it's an excellent picture. In general, there are three things that make more realistic human skin renders: 1. Great lighting 2. High quality texture maps 3. Realistic specular highlighting and shadows