I have made a character that is 16,194 polys. My aim is to get a nice skin tone going that would be aimed towards a ps2/3 LOD. The way i want to work is that get the base of the characters skin right then add the extras later like clothing and such. I have done research into skin tones but i am having no avail into it as i am new towards this area of character creation.
So far all i have done is set up some lights got a crap AO map and a light map to get the result i currently have, played around with some figures in ps.