And Now Paul... by lwperkins
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Paul looks pretty bad when you first see him in your Pose room, but it's not his fault--he's just morphed that way. He looks 20% better instantly if you select his jaw and push it shut. His maps are decent too, if a bit low res. My biggest disappointment was that the eyes aren't more high poly and detailed for close shots--they animate well and move well together (it's almost creepy seeing them move like that), but the eyes don't seem to "fit" perfectly into the socket and there is something odd going on in the eye corners. Probably some subdividing and playing with the morph tool would fix some of it, but I ended up just hauling his head into Argile and resculpting him a little for this. He's sort of based on a photo of Emma Watson's brother, though I didn't have any clothes for him.
Are there clothes for him? I don't know why I ask.. I have had M4 literally for years and I think he has about 6 outfits all told..all by Prae :D
Lots of postwork on the hair because transmapped hair in superfly is.... superslow. I tried to grow beard hair and it was the stuff of comedy, so I gave up on the strand hair and instead, added in Photoshop the places on the "edges" where hair would stick out--the rest is painted on the Diffuse map. In spite of the hair rendering problem, Superfly is growing on me. I am glad that we have the option of the legacy renderer, though, for speed.
Comments (17)
RGUS
Devilishly good looking and brutishly handsome isn't he... much like me!!
lwperkins
With much less lawn to mow, though! Also I suspect you own lacrimals, unlike this poor guy :D And thank you!
gypsyangel
He's freaking me out! =<8^O It looks like they cut holes for his eyes...like he had a smooth clay face or something. It's kind of disturbing...
lwperkins
My first thought when I loaded him was "I need to order him some silicone eyes that fit" before I snapped out of it and remembered he wasn't an actual doll I could fix with apoxy sculpt and new eyes :D They tend to slide around in his head when I move stuff too...not sure why that is. Thanks for coming to see him, though! <3
eekdog
He looks pretty good still my friend. My morphs for M4 don't work fight so I stick with v4.2. But nice tender, Lynn.
Faemike55
I'm glad my eyes don't look like his after my recent surgery! Great work
lwperkins
I'm just glad you can see, no matter what they look like! Thanks for stopping by! <3
mapps
excellent :-)
lwperkins
Hehe thank you!
Richardphotos
remember how scary the Miki's are? when I first installed I was in puzzlement why they would offer such a lousy looking product. accessory morphs improved her greatly
I have not even opened Paul but obviously you are doing good by him
lwperkins
Miki ended up being adorable in the end, I have her on a disk still..someplace! Thanks for taking a peek!
donnena
That's an easy Million Percent Improvement!!!! I am so impressed you made him look like a sober non-scary Humanish guy!!!!
Nerd 3d has a super complex SuperFly shader for strand hair he's really proud of. probably available on the SM web site.
And as for clothing.... you once told me .... Paint always fits! ;>
lwperkins
It's true that paint fits--and it's cheap! I had to cheat and paint in lacrimals, it was making me crazy. I saw that preview of the strand textures-- they looked pretty, but I have to figure out how to not fill the room with hair and crash first. (There was hair freaking everywhere--I wanted a machete, not a shader) And thank you as always!
Radar_rad-dude
He looks good in this portrait! Excellent work! Very well done! But then, you are the master! Always have been! Always will be!!!!!
lwperkins
Aww, thank you so much! It's great to see you posting too!
jocko500
wonderful
lwperkins
Thank you hon! He was such a fun project!
Freethinker56
I wish I could get him to look this good ..Super work your done here
lwperkins
It's kind of a struggle just because he has so few morphs ready-made! But I am always happy to have more men in my Runtime :D Thank you too!
pregiato
Stunning portrait!!!!!!!!
Mondwin
Very well done my friend!!!!Bravissima!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
lwperkins
Thank you pregiato and Whylma! I hope you are having a super weekend <3
HADCANCER
Yup I am!
lwperkins
ROFL!! You are a song genius! (Plus it's so fun to revisit these; it's always a great trip down nostalgia lane)
prae
Wow, he looks amazing! You did an incredible job with him, he looks human!!!
lwperkins
Thank you ! I feel sorry for the poor guy, he gets no love ..and I suspect some poor Smith Micro employee volunteered to be semi-cloned for him! He looks not bad with his mouth fixed and hair on his head, but no one I think has even gone that far!
aubedo
Very nice work ( although... It surely was a hard thing...)
daggerwilldo
Looks wonderful. i am glad to see you doing some work on the stock characters. Your tips are very helpful.
lwperkins
It seems so thrifty to get some use out of them--one of the nicest things about P11 is that they include all the older stock people, even Jessi, which I think I might even have some clothes for somewhere :o