Well that certainly looks better. You can't correct and not tell how...so how did you correct this? Are you using Poser Pro?

I've now spent two days trying to get a render that I can live with. That's about 50 renders. I have to stop. This is actually a product and I have to do all my promo renders so no more playing around.

I have no idea how to use a blender to control the strength of the shadows. So without knowing that and being in a hurry, I resorted to my usual trickery and deception. I was so hoping to be able to do just a straight render but that's not going to happen. I learned a lot from this though and that's the point.

I realized how much better MBAO is when you can set different values for each material that you have it on. I didn't know that.

With no AO on the lights I couldn't do a separate AO pass so that I would be able to manipulate that. At least I couldn't figure a way. Don't think it works that way.

But I realized how much better MBAO is when you can set different values for each material that you have it on. I didn't know that.

So what I'm posting is OK for what I was trying to do. There are absolutely no shaders on the skin, I need to do that and I'm not crazy about the lighting because of the hard shadow on the side of the face. But, I finally got soft AO. Not dark, ugly and dirty looking. The figure is the same but with a different texture and hair and I just stuck the background in there.

Now I'm tired and need something mind altering...