"theSea" is Michael Ambruso, 42 year old artist living in the lovely hills of Connecticut.
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I'm pretty much a DAZ|Studio user at this point although I am trying to branch out with Vue and Modo. A lifelong reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy I'm inspired to try to portray the worlds of my imagination... ...
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as 'bad luck.'
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Comments (24)
DarkStormCrow
Excellent work, very nicely done, looks very realistic to me...
Pakmule
Looks good. I have been arguing with these textures since I got them. I am having a heck of a time getting rid of the orange coloring which it looks like you have done.
mhossack
Great work! The skin textures both look excellent.
kobaltkween
this looks absolutely great in the light areas, but a little less great in the shadowed area between them. in my experience and opinion, highly ambient light isn't a great test of a skin shader, because a good texture with no shader at all in very ambient light looks pretty photoreal. a scene with highly directional lighting and lots of dark shadow is where i find a shader shows its true colors. that said, your realism usually far surpasses my best attempts.
RAMWorks
I think V4's looks more natural to me. Nice composition though!!
LemyD
Your skins are looking fantastic, as every time. But is the new skin shader worth it's money? I think, You get the same fantastic results wit pwSurface shaders. But the picture is wonderful! Greetings Lemy
callad
Vanessa skin does look great almost all the time. Have applied the skin settings with standard DAZ-shaders to other skins which in all cases made them look better too (Milan, Nanette, and all skins that are sold without the D|S settings (so just for Poser) bennefit from those settings.) Back to your skin.. :) Looks great in this White Room though I must admitt I am slightly distracted by the wonderful curves on the left.. :) Thanks for the insight info my friend!!!
ESarge
I think the skins look very good. Great picture and posing!!
ThomasMacCallum
beautiful, great shder work and awwe, what a lovely couple they make. Respect to the king of DS skin.
dreamlord08
For my eyes the skin looks great, the scene too. 5++
dshield
Nice work, and thanks for the great info. D
Evanooh
Excellent models... a very quality skins... a good job! Hugs
jmillz13
great image!! nice shadows, textures and render!!!
clam73
excellent skin textures and lighting....nice realism!
Cimaira
Gorgeous skin textures as always! I'm not sure I see enough difference in the skin with the new Human Skin Shader, to warrant a purchase, this is just MHO. With your skills you make them all look great!
shotgung0d
My thoughts almost echo Cimaira's. If I hadn't read your details I would have thought pwSurface. I'd like to see this test done with standard lighting (non IBL) to see how this shader handles. Very good looking render, it's quite natural in appearance. Keep it up my friend, and thanks for the postwork tip.
johnny_damnit
nice work on the skins. very realistic
Timesurfer
fantastic skin on both... he looks like he needs to get out into the sun a bit :P
nikita_s_cold
Oo-la-la! That is awesome. You're giving Poser a run for it's money. I have no idea what you're talking about up there with all the shaders, but it sounds very, very impressive, mister. I have yet to use PW surface shaders because I don't know how to open it, let alone use it. Every time I open it I get the tutorial which is not linked into the image, it's just a tutorial. Pretty sad, huh. What you have up there is so off-the-charts cool. The subsurface scattering is so real. I can only compliment. I can't even begin to tell you how to improve anything. Totally cool, Michael! Kudos for figuring it all out! You and Callad are Daz jedi's. :)
swjkie100
This looks great! Interesting use of cyan. Of course, a fantastic texture can make even a render without any special shaders look real (to an extent). I do see a slight improvement over pwSurface, but Im not sure if thats because of the shader itself or your method in getting it looking realistic. You have an excellent eye for this sort of thing -^ I'm too comfortable with pwSurface to make a change anytime soon -^
Naoo
Excellent! Wonderful Light!!!
amirapsp
Beautiful colors and image!!
darman42
...wow
dragonmuse
I think I have a lot to learn from you. Thank you for providing details of how you did it.. Now just have to figure out what it all means ;)