Evilmaul himself

evilmaul · July 30, 2013, 08:07:56 AM

work in progress but I thought I would share the first results

Josh3D · July 30, 2013, 08:15:12 AM

The Sith Lord returns! Looking great Marco!

tsunami · July 30, 2013, 08:16:27 AM

Fantastic work Marco!subblime davvero

TpwUK · July 30, 2013, 09:22:16 AM

Even the fluffy fabric, your attention to detail is amazing, it's another jaw dropper

Martin

EGON · July 30, 2013, 10:54:08 AM

Amazing.

Speedster · July 30, 2013, 11:00:33 AM

My God! Your work is more than awesome- it's at the level of a Master! Great meeting you at SIGGRAPH- it was very amusing to see folks looking at your self-portrait on the huge monitor, then turn around and you were standing right behind them- a lot of jaws dropped!
Bill G

guest84672 · July 30, 2013, 02:16:34 PM

Awesome! And you shaved! Including your eyebrows :-D

evilmaul · July 30, 2013, 03:28:53 PM

hahaha yes I thought why would I need eyebrows?!
thanks guys! will post more when I get to work more on this

DriesV · July 30, 2013, 03:49:58 PM

Really amazing...

I'm wondering, to what extent do the translucency and specularity differ from your regular 'head shots'.

Dries

feher · July 30, 2013, 04:52:12 PM

WOW ! I really do not know how you do it. Would love to pick your brain someday on your technique.
Thanks for sharing.
Tim

Jeff Hayden · July 30, 2013, 11:20:06 PM

Absolutely awesome as always.

Tomas · July 31, 2013, 02:14:31 AM

Great job!!!

evilmaul · July 31, 2013, 08:23:40 AM

thank you very much guys!

Dries so what has changed in these renders is just the diffuse map. So now because of how SSS work here you have a much less evident translucency in the skin. The black part of the paint actually removes the effect altogether while you still have scattering to some degree in the red part of the paint (I am curious thou to see if for instance the thinnier parts like the ears painted black would let the light scatter at all in real life).
The fact that there is less scattering also make the surface detail stands out more..and its a common thing that because of the SSS small detail tends to be washed out, often time we crank up the displacement to counterbalance the lost of detail. So here I will probably have to back off a little onthe amount of surface detail. As for the spec , even though the map is the same again the paint , especially the black part, make the face look shinier overall.

DriesV · July 31, 2013, 10:35:05 AM

Aha, thanks for the notes, Marco.

Strictly technically speaking...
Wouldn't face paint make the skin less translucent (more opaque), no matter what the diffuse color?
How would you go about turning yourself into a mime artist?

These are still badass renders though.

Dries

evilmaul · July 31, 2013, 10:56:24 AM

thanks Dries..

well here the Diffuse component actually IS the face paint color (although has been painted on top of the actually skin diffuse and some part are still showing through the paint) and yes black color means zero translucency..so like I said compared to the face without paint there is a reduced amount (in the red parts) of sss whilst it's basically zero amount in the black areas.

not sure about a mime artist but it could be an idea for next halloween costume party

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