Old Man Head Texture Painty Thingies

JacqueChoi · Oct 2011

Still WIP.

Focus is primarily to push the colour values in skin tones.

Just a simple Normal/Spec/Diffuse with a ramp shader with a Scanline render.

Crits n comments plz!

ZacD · Oct 2011

Hey looking good so far...
Since you mentioned the main focus is the colour values, I found this handy image a while ago that points out different temperature regions of the face.

haikai · Oct 2011

Hey, man. Lookin' good so far. I noticed something about his furrowed brow, and I wonder if there should be a piece of flesh right in the center as seen here:
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzx2joVleh1qbstpro1_400.jpg

I think some thicker eye brows that catch the light would help it be more noticeable against the skin. Maybe some more color in the ears (or maybe that will be taken care of with SSS?), some of that cool value used on the stubble could work on the top of his head too.

Looking forward to seeing the final. :thumbup:

JacqueChoi · Oct 2011

Haha popular thread I see.

Thx Zac. I thought I put those regions in, but wondering.. think it's not obvious enough? should I put in more?

Yeah Haikai!
I'll get to the eyebrows in a bit, more varied (it's jsut a flat grey right now with an alpha).

Here's my SSS pass. Think I might have overdone this a bit. Might still need a bit more orange in the ear.

STRIKER · Oct 2011

nice improvement!

Blaisoid · Oct 2011

he sure looks healthier now

JacqueChoi · Oct 2011

thx guys. yeah, i think for an old guy, he might have lost a bit too much skin tone. the skin needs to be more transluscent i thinks. gonna tweak it a bit more when Im home.

Jungsik · Oct 2011

it seems silly to crit one of my fav artist lol ill just say i like it!

Bigjohn · Oct 2011

There's something odd about the spec. What kind of specular map are you using?

dur23 · Oct 2011

BANANANANANA

Daelus · Oct 2011

The moles/freckles seem a little blown out from the SS to me. The skin also seems a little too smooth and uniform. I usually find it a bit easier to test out SS materials with just one light, plus mood lighting is always fun. Makes it much easier to see the falloff effects. Anyway, he's very close.

JacqueChoi · Nov 2011

Ok.

So i started letting more of the tones bleed through (the main purpose is supposed to exaggerate the variances in the tones, thus the older man with more translucency in the skin).

John - It's just a simple Spec Map. Primarily the cavity multiplied by the AO, with additional highlighted emphasis on the T-zone and lips.

They're real-time textures, so I'm constrained to: Coloured Specular, Gloss, Normal and Diffuse.

Dan! · Nov 2011

I think you may have gone a bit too translucent with his skin at this point. The noise pattern on the skin normal feels unnatural IMO- looks less like pores or wrinkles - more like generated noise. I also think the moles and freckles are a bit too uniformly visible- maybe run some cloud masks over those layers.

JacqueChoi · Nov 2011

K.

Thx for the crit dan!

I Re-calibrated the Specular (particularly on the forehead) eliminating most of the cavity map on the forehead (particularly the skin grain going the wrong direction areas on the forehead).

Cloud masks over the freckles and pock marks worked pretty well (although I averaged them out as I was losing too much of the actual diffuse).

Old Man Head Texture Painty Thingies

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