Ficus Lyrata [Lighting & Material Study]

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Hello,
I wanted to share a very small piece that turned out to look good enough to make me want to show it to the community. I got a model for 3DS Max that I wanted to work in Cycles so I took the textures that the model was provided with and created the materials from scratch. Then, I added a very simple studio lighting setup and rendered the image you can see below. Minor post-pro in Blender’s compositor and Photoshop.

Please share your thoughts and tell me what could be improved (especially on the materials).

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To my pleasant surprise, this project won the Render of the Week on Blender News.

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It looks good. There is nothing to really critique.

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Thanks. And yeah, there wasn’t too much space for a mistake.

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Perfect shader and lighting!

Did you use Principled BSDF shader?

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Thanks! And yeah, this is Principled shader with added translucency for leaves.