We should probably start a new thread for procedural skin, or necropost in some older one as there have been several over the years.

I just did this shader, starting from scratch, not using VSS or anything. Just noodling in the material room. The tiny wrinkles of skin are eluding me. If I zoom in really close on this, it loses its effectiveness. (click for full size)

We'd need quite a few masks to get this looking good. Need to know where the skin is bumpy and where it isn't, where there should be more color variation, where there should be pores, and of course where are the pink bits?

Simon looks way strange without eyebrows. I think you'd still have to go with some kind of transmap for the eyebrows.

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