Ok. Best points so far are Caisson. Um... I'm just trying to make some pleasing characters for La Femme not a photorealistic manifesto lol. If you've ever looked at anything I model or render, and yes most of my images are of things I make myself, you'll see that I'm totally not going for strict realism.

To Rhia474's points... it's a test lighting setup, for the 3rd time its IDL; a specular/shadow spot, a diffuse infinite, BBs envirosphere with a gradient. The figure is in a half box. Lighting seems good enough to see the textures properly to me. Should I test textures in poser with bright lights or with moody dramatic lights? Is there blowout? Anyway, when it comes time for promo images I'll worry about those kinds of renders, and for seeing the forms of my sculpts AO etc in mudbox works great.

Finally, I should have just said it's a toon character. Have you looked at most of the characters being produced for La Femme? Ever wonder why they're all Toony looking? Not photorealistic? I challenge you to find a photorealistic looking character for the figure, there are a few notable exceptions, using superfly or anything. From people who are top artists no less. Do I really need to post images? Ok, here's the one that comes on the cover of the La Femme Pro users guide. Does this look like a real person to you? I can post many many more. I like toon figures though, so for ME it's not an issue.

Yeah Caisson, mudbox bridges directly with photoshop. Changes made in one reflect in the other. Very handy. Also figure can be painted at standard resolution and UDIMM by default, so I like Mudbox very very much for what I do. I'm just going to use standard bump maps. More outlandish makeups too. Also I'm only making a few "realistic" characters. La Femme lends herself well to toons and creatures, the mesh is completely enclosed so outlandish deformations without holes at ears, throat, and eyes make that much easier. We'll see. I may lose interest and go back to just modeling my own stuff... being that I've probably spent hundreds of dollars on MR, clothes, hairs, etc for La Femme (including Ghostmans last two bodysuit offerings) I think I'll concentrate for a while on the figure. Thanks for your suggestions.

Thanks Boni

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Cover of La Femme Pro Users Guide...

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