Thanks very much, Lillaanya! From your post, I see that some of this is going to come back to shaders... VSS has been a stroke of fortune, since Bagginsbill has some very good pre-settings in there for skin.. but I'd be pretty much flying blind otherwise.

I don't skimp on render settings.

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