I played around a bit with the material-nodes version venomgfx showd on hte end of his tutorial and made some changes to use it for skin. I’m not really good at creating these things, but I think it turned out quite good. I’m just posting this here so everybody can have a look and maybe use it and/or improve on it. .blend file on request (the material has some additional textures to add some different colors to the basic skin).
PS: I don’t know if the support/texture forum is the right place for this, but i just want to show a type of shading/lighting. If s/b thinks it doesn’t belong here feel free to move it.
Yes, i know, but nothing will spare you the work of manually painting most of the color & structure of the skin yourself if you want a more realistic one. The method shown by VenomGFX is mostly about smooth shading & lighting
If s/b want’s to improve on this material I can post/upload the .blend-file of course.
IMHO we can make a small contest with that Material as the base… the best results will go to the material repository @ blenderheads.com and ill announce the beginning & winners at the blenderheads.com frontpage to… The Official BlenderHeads.Com Human Skin Shader Contest hmm… should it be 2 weeks long?
I really like the idea. I’ve uploaded the simple version [1] of the file here: skin_falloff.blend
It also features a bumpmap that is better pronounced in comparision to the posted renders.
Feel free to use it for whatever you want as long as the license (Creative Commons BY-SA) is respected.
But I think that this forum is not suited for such a competition (-> WIP-forum?).
Werner
[1] No composition nodes (so we can focus on the material) and I’ve removed the human head mesh (it’s not my model).
.blend file on request (the material has some additional textures to add some different colors to the basic skin).
