hborre posted at 8:04 PM Mon, 29 August 2022 - #4443500

Beautiful morph.  Did you custom-make the skin texture also?

It's not a canned texture. I added the brows and did quite a bit of painting in mudbox. Mostly to get rid of baked in specular. The base is an Adiene texture for A4. The brows I'm not quite sure, a merchant resource? I have a ton of resources and texture sources that I've collected over the years. And alot of brushes. They're Tweaked quite a bit with the liquify tool.

The eyes are from Sasha 16 but also touched up. Sasha's textures are based off the V4 Bonnie freebie. The lips are almost entirely repainted. The hair is christine hair at the death star (Daz), lady littlefox. I had initially started doing some IDL renders but after a few hours of watching the buckets crawl across the hair I decided to use a very low intensity IBL with no image attached to to fill out the diffuse. No AO. Soft shadows from the area. I like to use that method for fast renders that get that classic pretty Poser illustration look that you used to see in promos quite a bit. Sort of the Fabiana look, which I like very much for portraits. I gave up on trying to make her look like Helen Slater and just kind of went with my own thing, which oddly enough kind of ended up looking like Christina Applegate somewhat.

She's got some expressions that came out pretty nice too. And some utilities that address issues that might arise if the face is used with V4's canned expressions. The jaw and eyes, especially the jaw, are pretty radically resculpted from V4's shape. The neck into the chest too. The character might look strange without the proper textures to set it off.

I'll post some more images during the week, if rokket doesn't mind. Make a couple more dials and then share it I guess. It's basically already finished and the injection made but I want to play with her some more. You don't need any morph packs for this. It's all match centers stuff. I used some of V4's built in actor transforms but thats all been baked down and mixed with multiple custom difference morphs, so not in any feasible way extractable or proprietary violation. Daz themselves couldn't extract those transforms from the deltas.

Anyway, if Rokket sees this as a hijack I'll just back off. I have a ton of other things to do, but I'm having fun with this character so I tend to go down rabbit holes. 

Thanks for asking about it hborre.