I'm not a newbie, but I've been away for more than 2 years and I've lost a lot of my knowledge. I feel like I've suffered a stroke and I'm learning to walk again. Also, I'm much more of a 3ds max user so I'm familiar with 3D jargon. Things that were once automatic are now a struggle to do. My last version of Poser was 7. I now have Poser Pro 2012 (v 9 I guess).

I resurrected and old project in order to improve on it. I've read a bunch of skin shader threads but for some reason nothing is approaching what I'm looking for which is a more realisting quality.

I've tried EZskin but it made the skin far too procelin and way too much SSS so that the skin was almost glowing. The next series of posts will show the images and info I used.

1. my render

2. render settings

3. EZSkin render

4. Skin Shader

5. Skin shader based on this thread: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2553769&page=1

 

My issues are:

• Not enough skin tone variation. Its too even
• Skin not oily enough
• Not sure if SSS is sufficient but don't know how to boost that w/o making skin glowing
• freckles and bump are not visible despite the fact there are nodes that account for it.

Any additional comments on composition, lighting etc will also be appreciated. If you need a node by node breakdown it is pretty much identical to the thread link above.

<strong>bandolin</strong><br />
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