First Time Using SSS

Artwork Focused Critiques
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This is my first time using SSS.
So, any suggestions on how to improve the material would be appreciated.
And, if you want, you may as well critique the color, light and composition as well…

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Hi could it be that the effect of SSS here seems more like translucent to me? Not sure, but if that is the case and you want another effect which is typically SSS, you have to turn down the scaling and mixing in more SSS in the mix. For example for a cube 2x2x2m, I scale SSS to approx 0.2. Then you see an effect like butter and skin. What is the diameter of such an “egg” you have and the scale of SSS ?

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Hi, robwesseling and thanks for your comment!

“Egg”- those are actually grapes… or at least the kind that I usually see here in the supermarkets :slight_smile: so of course they’re small- about 2 cm. I combined two sss shaders, one with a scale of 0.02 and the other has a 0.05 scale. I find this shader confusing. Not entirely sure how to use it. I started off with an example I saw on Creative Shrimp and tried to wing it from there =/

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Ahw, of course grapes. How could I miss that. Really. Well for grapes it’s good as you did in my opinion. But learning to work with SSS, grapes are not the first thing I think off. When someone wakes me up saying “SSS”, I will answer: “Butter”.

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But I’m vegan, I can’t do butter haha!
I need to get my hands on a textbook or a course that really goes deep into the tehnical stuff.
Thanks for your help.

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Try blender guru website I’ve learned from that site so much

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Yeah, I think I’ve sern every single video on blenderguru, but I don’t remember any in-depth explenation about SSS

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I’ve come across a few tutorials, but it still seems like a mystery… Everyone says to use it, but few go into detail on how.

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Exactly.
If anyone reads this and know of any good, super-technical tutorials, please post a link(s)