BLENDING LIFE - Liliana

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hi!
I’m opening a thread for my participation in BLENDING LIFE contest.
Here is the last test render for now.

http://syziph.hit.bg/WIP/Head/head_wip_10-RT.jpg

I skipped the general modeling part not to bother you with unfinished wires.
If somebody wants to see the progress of the project you can visit the link below.
http://syziph.hit.bg/WIP/Head/head.html
I will appreciate any assistance in texturing and rendering of this model!
About the story … I still don’t have any idea what it will be :o

I’ve found a very good texturing tutorial for advanced texturing in ZBrush and Photoshop.
Unfortunately I can’t find simmilar functionalities in Blender and Gimp.
Anyway it’s a great method worth seeing:
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=bDNv_dkUxlU

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looking good, nice proportion and shape. the ears might look a little flat, might rotate them out just a tad. but no biggie. how much further are you going to take the modeling? are you going to finish the body, or just do a nice bust?

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A nice bust, hmm. I think I will skip it for now.
I will put effort on modeling cloths and adornments probably. Teeth and tongue - if the facial expression reqires it.
About the ears - maybe you’re right. Tweaking the verts will continue to the final :smiley:

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Here is the current progress:
http://syziph.hit.bg/WIP/Head/head_wip_16-RT.jpg

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Looking very good, a very interesting face. I think the rim portions of the eyelids will need some attention, they seem too continuous, no creases that you normally find even on young eyes. Ears are perhaps too low.

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Thanks chipmasque! I am trying to fix that :slight_smile:

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really nice, I love it!

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I’m glad you like it, JonathanC :slight_smile:
Here is another update + eyelashes and particle eyebrows:
http://syziph.hit.bg/WIP/Head/head_wip_19-RT.jpg

Now if somebody knows if the blend file for this image is available somewhere it will be great to look at it :smiley:

http://www.blender.org/uploads/pics/hairspec_01.jpg
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-240/hair-strand-rendering/

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Have you had a look at this old hair page?
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Static_Particles

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Yes, I had. But the example does not have the effect I am looking for. Maybe it’s a matter of lighting the scene?!

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Here is my attempt at recreating the above photo… (the material, not necessarily the hair itself.) Hope this helps you figure it out.:wink:

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strandhair.blend (172 KB)

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Great! Thanks afalldorf!
I will take a look at it!

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I think pressing Strand Render makes the difference

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strand(render)hair.blend (172 KB)

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Good , alter the nose a little .

also , all i can do is showing you my old hair experiment , to tell you that it’s possibe with the old hair page above …

:o

good luck :smiley:

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Wake up, sleeping beauty :smiley:

http://syziph.hit.bg/WIP/Head/head_wip_24-RT.jpg

She needs to change her shampoo!
My first unsucsessful attempt to put some hair on this poor girl.
The approach I used to create the hairstyle tuned out to be very inefficient, also the rendering time was too long for this stage.
Anyway the hair color looks good.
Next time - better.

Nice haircut, 3DGURU :wink: Thanks for the notes!

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She looks a little plastic-y, but other than that, nice job!

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wow, looking great! throw a little SSS in there and you’ll be good to go :slight_smile: she looks a bit like christen bell to me :smiley:

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Still stuck on hair modeling problem.
SSS maybe as final touch - render test are getting more and more expensive.
Well this render took 5 minutes - specially for ward7299 :slight_smile:
http://syziph.hit.bg/temp/kbl-N-liliana.jpg

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nice :smiley:

5 minutes, eh? looks like you’re using buffered shadows, so that shouldn’t be a factor… are you using “strand render” in the hair settings? it’s a lot more efficient for large masses of hair. another thing, if you happen to be using AO, that sure eats up time

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5 minutes for compositing Kristen Bell in Gimp :wink:
For the render of the model I use AO, soft shadows, adaptive render for the hair. It took about 40 minutes to render. Never tried with buffer shadows. My lighting set up is very simple - “three light” rig with only one casting shadows, and two “specular” lights for the eyes.
Strand render is fast but it seems to disable shadows for the hair?! Or I am missing something?