MentalRay Subsurface Study

I woke up quite early today. too early.

The day before i was experimenting on Subsurface in renderman, which, in my opinion, more simpler than Mental Ray Subsurface. Since i'm not really good on Mental Ray Subsurface, i decide to take a look one more time into it. I find a tutorial, and try to understand the controls, settings, and condition to make a better Subsurface result in Mental ray.

Here's the result, I saved almost all of my render test:

Enjoy Guys,

Time to prepare for office.

gotta be sleepyhead soon.

zbrush faces.

While making the face, i took several view for the head. i purposely did it for WIP images and also checking the silhouette of the head.

Here are the shot after i combined it into one image with photoshop.

Enjoy!

Face study with zbrush

Merry Xmas! and while having a relaxing time away from office works...i dedicated my holiday for something fun. It's all done with Zbrush, and bpr rendering, + photoshop for final composite.
Enjoy and happy holiday! :D

Sunday Zbrush

This was a concept i develop week ago, but since the office hour really pack up, only this sunday i can continue working on it. this basically still 60-70 percent of the work. while i still want to experimenting something in the future with this model. Will try to get it done as soon as possible.

Happy weekdays peps!

Cheers

Weekend! Yes!

Weekend! a lil bit pack up but then still, weekend is a weekend, which my freedom comes first. So, I continue on my personal research and study...

And I'm making a teeth! (feels so useless lol)

But then again, It's looks quite fine (at least for me, myself and I) , after watching some tutorials and trying to understand the basic of it.

And here's a screenshot. (for my digital documentations of my research and study)

Happy Weekend! Yay! Rest and Relax...

A "cheap" way to approach a realistic eyeball

Since the day before i was experimenting with all the quite mighty and powerful mental ray's materials (subsurface and material x, mostly), on the next day i was challenged to reach the same result with a "cheaper" maya's materials. (it's still powerful, but in fact it take less than mia materials). So with the same geometry, polycounts, and textures, i tried to changed the materials into blinn (for the eye's iris) and phong/phong E (for outer kornea). It's losing some of the details compared to the "expensive one", but still consider as a qualify for me.

And here's it how it's render out (note: take 4-5 secs faster than the expensive one):

Cheers! ;-)

Eye Shaders Testing

last night, I tried to follow one of my "advance" tuts that i've ever had. I miss a lot of details and linking on the shaders, since i just skipped some of the earlier parts of the tutorials. it's a lil bit hard to understand if your foundations isn't strong enough. after struggle some time with it (and also reduces my sleep time, sadly), i managed to at least achieve 70% of what i wanted to achieve. However, i still need to watch and redo to remember and understand the basic of these things.