I would appreciate all the help I can get to improve my art. Thank you.
Help with more realism
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alienintheship
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I use both Poser and DAZ and I render my images with Octane. However I am very unsatisfied with my results. I know I am missing something because I see other peoples render with Octane and some of them are really epic. I took a screen shot of my characters face in Octane daylight.
I would appreciate all the help I can get to improve my art. Thank you.
I would appreciate all the help I can get to improve my art. Thank you.
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Hey alienintheship,
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you're not using any SubSurface Scattering(SSS). Give it a try, that should already add a lot more realism.
Then something pretty obvious: give her some hair, it looks a bit alien like without it right now. I see you're using 2.0 which has some nice hair improvements.
As a last tip, personally I prefer using HDRI images as lighting. They give a lot more little color nuances in the final render. Something a simple daylight system can't really give you.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you're not using any SubSurface Scattering(SSS). Give it a try, that should already add a lot more realism.
Then something pretty obvious: give her some hair, it looks a bit alien like without it right now. I see you're using 2.0 which has some nice hair improvements.
As a last tip, personally I prefer using HDRI images as lighting. They give a lot more little color nuances in the final render. Something a simple daylight system can't really give you.
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alienintheship
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- Joined: Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:22 pm
LOL! This is a test render and I draw hair by hand during post work so don't worry they don't end up coming out
looking like an alien hahha.
Thank you for the tip and you are right I never used SSS and always stick with bump map which looks
awful on skin. Oh, I do use HDRI and I am really fond of it. Didn't use it in this quick render though.
Again, thank you for taking the time to help. Greatly appreciated.
looking like an alien hahha.
Thank you for the tip and you are right I never used SSS and always stick with bump map which looks
awful on skin. Oh, I do use HDRI and I am really fond of it. Didn't use it in this quick render though.
Again, thank you for taking the time to help. Greatly appreciated.