I'm assuming since our skin is presumably even more translucent than your paper that the transition might be even softer?
Interesting experiment.
I found a temporary workaround to the skin terminator issue that I can live with for now (you don't want to know what I did). I posted the pics in the VSS thread.
www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php

Need sleep now.

 

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