MDD Raquel Genesis by markht
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Description
This is MDD Raquel transformed to Genesis using GenX. The vendor does not test in DAZ Studio or provide materials for DS. The Poser non-SSS material does work, sort of , in DS. The specular setup seems to completely turn specular off in DS. I'm sure it does not do that in Poser, but DS only interprets the most basic information in Poser materials.
Anyway I changed the materials to use the new Subsurface Shader Base, which is available free. I used the Subsurface Toolbox to help setup SSS and the specular. The vendor does not appear to provide a specular map, at least I could not find one. I used specular maps from the V4 Elite Texture Lana in the specular setup.
This portrait is a shameless attempt to reproduce the promo image of MDD Raquel, which was done in Poser using the Poser SSS material. I find it an instructive exercise to try to reproduce the lighting used by the pros. You learn a lot about the details of lighting that they use. The shadows are your guide to light placement and intensity. The key light I used was an InaneGlory beauty dish camera right and above. This was placed fairly far from the model to match the hardness of the shadows. The fill light was an InaneGlory softbox camera left. The render was at gamma 2.2 with gamma correction. The fill intensity was about 1/16th the key.
The vendor promo image has a reddish skin tone, almost like she is has a light sunburn. I think this comes from very strong SSS settings in the Poser SSS material. I don't like that sunburned look or the wax mannequin look that you get with really strong SSS. I deliberately decided to use more moderate SSS settings in my skin material. It has an appearance that I find more natural looking.
No post work, except adding my name.
Thanks for looking.
Comments (5)
Iraya
Very beautiful image, so natural looking. Excellent. Have a nice day.
ARD1
Nice portrait
GrandmaT
Beautiful!
Cyve
Wonderfully done!!!
Raages
Wow! A real beauty with high realism.