I just finished this portrait of Napoleon Dynamite. Critiques are welcome, but I won't be making any changes to this. I've looked at it far too long. So any crits will be taken as useful information for my next personal project. I want to start exploring atmosphereics and really putting a greater sense of depth into my work.
I am using subsurface scattering on nearly everything in the scene, so it is slow to render. The hair is all geo, created by generating a low res Fibremesh in ZBrush, and then imported into Maya. There I converted it to curves and created pfxHair systems, that I then converted back into geometry.
The scene has 15.7 million polygons, and uses nearly all my video memory with the textures included. It took 6.5 hours to render with 3 680GTX's.
Napoleon Dynamite
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- tonysculptor
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- gordonrobb
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Looks awesome. Material fir teeth is superb
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- tonysculptor
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Here's a quick alternate render for fun...
Tony Reynolds
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Great portrait ! I didn't know the character... I made some researches 

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- gordonrobb
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Superb, and you really capture is 'over wet' lips in this one.
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