Black Artifacts with eyes and SSAO

Justo

So I'm making this and I notice some huge black artifacts around the eyes when I enable SSAO. I wasn't able to find related problems in the forums yet. Right now I'm using EQ's eyes as placeholder assets, so I wonder what's causing such horrendous artifacts? These artifacts show both in the viewport and when rendering outputs.

Anybody know how to fix this?

EarthQuake

It's hard to say from looking at the screenshot, but I would suggest adjusting the AO settings, especially turning down the Occlusion Strength if the value is high.

Other than that, I would have to take a look at the scene to give more advice. If you want me to have a look, please package up the scene + textures and send them my way (you can send me a dropbox link via PM or at joe@marmoset.co).

Justo

Yeah, the artifacts did go away after tweaking those parameters. I guess I'll just have to tone down the strength, thanks EQ.