paramount opened this issue on Nov 20, 2008 · 225 posts
JoEtzold posted Mon, 08 December 2008 at 4:21 PM
Wow, that hair looks great ...
Though a bit sharp edged left and right forehead and not so sharp in the middle but it has never the less that cool touch. And it has that volume left and right which I missed a bit in ParisHair. Did you use the 5. color from the promo pictures? It works well ... a bit more specularity and touch silvry shine ... and done.
The makeup is fabulous ... even that dots should be more left and right on the height of the eyes and the eye shadows need a bit more of skyblue color.
But that eyes and brows are perfect. Looks like a small puppet ... :biggrin: a bit toonish, I'm normally more a friend of more natural face and body contours ... but otherhand it's a matter of the surrounding in the image. A toonish girl needs some toonish (styled) scenery.
If coming together with such a realistic model like for example the moon mobile which is been reported as W.I.P. in the C4D-forum, it would not look as good.
Mouth ( to voluptous) and nose (to bumpy) is not so like my gusto ... might be I don't want to be remembered so much to my own nose ... :ohmy: ... but this is a absolute personal view and as ever "beauty lies in the eye of the beholder".
Cam and light is good for a quick render. For portraits 100mm is minimum needed, could also be more. Up to 150mm is absoluty no problem.
From the photographers point of view I would turn her head a bit ... that than looks not so as made for the next passport ... :biggrin:
For the left spotlight (with shadows right ?) you could change the shadow parameters:
Shadow blur radius to something between 2 (absolute minimum), better 8 to 12 like gusto. That will soften that extrem hard shadows.
The minBias parameter should be round 0.2. It's the difference how directly shadows start at the object. This seem's to be fine as far as I see.
And as last I would try to have the shadow light more as a only main light and the second with much much less brightness only to have also darker parts filled with structure. It seems as if the 2. light came from the top front (there is such a light place in the middle of the hair on top) with same intensity ... or am I mislead ?
But never the less in total it's a real cutie in the image ... and she has a lot of the Ellis touch ... I would say "well done", paramount ...
Looking forward for a complete image ... legs are important, aren't they ? :tongue1: