Beer glass scene creation
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Hi Jay,increase the weight values in the epidermal or subdermal channel
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Thanks mate. I've been doing that as you suggested before. I think that when you use misss_fast_skin_shader, the colors just don't really pop as you have in the maps exactly... "I think"...
I already did hundreds of test renders and during the process, learned quite a lot about mr. All just playing around really and some researching. The one thing I found it annoying, is that the image in IPR looks goods, only to find out after the real render, all colors are different and the SSS as well. When I do a real render, it just comes up totally different. I posted 2 images in my previous post (page 1). Check it out
I think I'm moving forward with the eyes now and let see how it turns.
Once again, thanks mate. I know you are extremely busy mate, no worries.
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Feel free to shoot any comments here. I'm trying to tweak the settings to make the eyes more like glass.
Did a bit of tuning in PS on the color.
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Edit: I think it's the crease on the upper lip, it looks too sharp.
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Thanks for the crits mate. That's very helpful. Before I read your comments I was re-rendering the image below. Both looks great, but this last one better I think.
Yes, the upper lips. Heard that crit before too. Need to find a way to work it out...maybe a complete re-sculpt on the lips or delete an edge loop around it. Will work on it later. Thanks mate. Appreciated.
Here's an update on the eyes.
Keep the crits flowing in
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Edit:For the lip you can delete a edge or select the vert in that area then go to average verts in the mesh menu
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Fixed that already in the new revision. Cooking something a bit different at the moment
Hey Jay,
Thanks for looking into it. I'm trying to setup the mood I'm after for the alien. I need to tune it down at the moment is too bright. I'm going to unsaturate the map and try again, also crank up the weights as suggested.
At the moment, I'm in the middle of other projects, need to put this one on hold until I can further work with it. Here's a super quick update from the small changes I made in the sculpt base mesh.
Just applied the normal, displace in the sss shader. Didn't do anything for now.
Rushing out!
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Here's an update of the new sculpt I just did. Working on painting the skin again. New skin this time with no blurring
Thanks Jay for the nock on the head 
The round part of the back of the head is for me later to add something around it. Attached a quick sketch.
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Just applied the maps (dif, epi, subd).
No displacement / normal / cavity / Specular yet...
No PS color correction yet...
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Thanks Dave for your nice words. noob trying hard here.Starting to come to life, looking good.................dave
While I was testing some settings, I might, well, I believe I messed up with the mentalrayTexture2.
Cause when I do a test render, the render is stuck and doesn't move even in the lower testing settings.
In the Output Window it says: while defining texture "mentalrayTexture2": missing texture file name
Where should I pickup this missing mentalraTexture2 and add it that back to where it belongs.
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Ive finally got some time today to get on with Maya stuff at home (including new site tute) hoooooray!!! Its been hectic....so hectic.
I'll look at the old one this afternoon and see what I can do with the old one anyway. But it looks like the penny has dropped and you are heading in the right direction now....nice eyes!!
Jay
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