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Hey,

I was trying to match this photo by Igor Amelkovich as a challenge (link).  started to get some results and then sort of plateau'd. What stood out was my inability to get the high specular and shading/shadowing at the level of the photo.

I noticed this for years really. Once you convert a render to greyscale, you see how little contrast survives at rendertime. I'm sure there is an explanation.

Anyway, I zipped the scene up with the Zbrushed object if anyone wants a go at it. Send me a sm to email to.

 

 

Below, my best so far. IDL, SSS, one light, one light box and bb's envirosphere. Body is at sub1 so, not much detail yet. I used V4Hi, snarly's EZskin with fresnel, and a concrete texture.