The Final Battle, Max Kor (3D)

[ZeroLogic]

wow that looks so real its insane nice job

[majestic]

Amazing work, wicked realism. The bump on his face is just right. Facial hair looks gorgeous too. However I do wish that the background was a bit sharper.

[lv-88]

AMAZING! the fur looks really really realistic in this image unlike many aswell as the whole face, good work indeed :)

[elnady]

Amazing work, wicked realism. The bump on his face is just right. Facial hair looks gorgeous too. However I do wish that the background was a bit sharper.
Agree
good job:)

[Neverwhere]

Truly incredible model and textures, however... his skin seems to be a bit too clean for a warrior... but that's just a detail... It's superb.

[rokol]

Love the old scar under the left eye, very nice work & excellant first post.

[nobrain]

wow, that is awesome realism, nice beard. i like this image alot, u did a good job.


shimon

[Bayaron]

The Best! Amazing work!
:thumbsup:

[AIR]

Jesus Christ Mary and Joseph and the three holly spirits and the apostols and the 10 commandments and adam and eve,,,,,,,,,,,, GOOD GOAD. :eek:

[wesa]

This is one of the best hair I've ever seen!
His eyes has life in them and that's amazing indeed...:thumbsup:
And I love his armor...great work! Is there a body in the future? A full armor suite...

[DuffMan256]

Very Very Nice !
Like the chain mail, what method did u use to make it.

[ACantarel]

Very well done character! It reminds me a bit on Gladiator :)
The hair looks very authentic, also the eyes.
Would be nice to see him looking around a bit and saying a word.
How long was the rendering time?
Definetly a 5-Star-Character :buttrock:

André

[chewman]

nice work mate! Definitely at the top of the list.
One thing though.. to me it looks as if he's wearing make up. Still, i can't do that, so yeah.. all credit to ya.

[nunz]

This is undoubtebly one of the best pieces I've ever seen on CGTalk. The realism is incredible. Great work!

[agasco]

one of the best realistic models i´ve ever seen, congratulations

[BlackNull]

wow, what a great piece of work u got there! amazing :thumbsup: Those eyes are right on!
The only thing that I can pick is the slight plasticy feel of the skin, not sure what's giving it that impression, maybe it needs better spec...but the more I stear at it the less it bothers me, it is truely fantastic :applause:

[weasel.acuh5o]

looks good, the only (minor) things I don't like is the lack of variety in skin tones and the depth of field. the background is fine, but I think the knight himself shouldn't be blurred anywhere.

[alexfalchi]

Ho Gordles...this is realistic mann!! can you post the wire please??!

[Cyberone]

hi!!!

Can you tell me where to buy some chain mail like the one in this picture...?
you see ive got this little fetish.....

hehe

But man this is really awesome work...yummy on all fronts!!

1000000 stars from me :)

[cgg]

hi max sup ?
cgg = gili
just had to say great job on this pic , amazing shading and rendering, keep it up :applause:



p.s
FRONT PAGE !!!

[Neochris]

Very very nice character, best realistic model and render ever seen.
Will you post a wire image for us, much curious!

6 stars for you, excellent works!!!
Congratulations! :)

[INFINITE]

No one can even dare crit this piece, amazing! Well done, the best. 5 Stars

[zman]

Hey max, that looks really good and realistic. i really love the hairs and the chains.
great job !

I'm glad to see stuff from you after the DPSI days ...

[MKor]

I had a feeling I over-blurred this one :)
This shader I'm using likes to absorb all the color variations
so I still have to find a way to make it more "dirty"..
to show you what I mean here is a pic of his current
skin texture

http://img80.exs.cx/img80/3473/epidermis2fc.jpg

and here is the wire..

http://img232.exs.cx/img232/4404/low2cv.jpg

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Hi cgg = gili :D ! whasss up

[s0real]

awesome!very impressive work.

[<GarfieLd>]

very very good job! especially mapping is perfect

[gpepper]

Magnifique ! Great job, one of the best thing I've ever seen ! A good use of the misss !
:thumbsup:

[azazel]

Some color variation on the skin would help a lot. But what bothers me most is the blank - default facial expression - makes the whole image bit boring.

[vegass]

Amazing work, great skin shader :thumbsup:

[Elendil_le_Grand]

Simply amazing and impressive :)

[TheRedeemer]

simply amazing the hair are perfect ! :buttrock:

[freka01]

It looks so real. Thats just crazy.

To azazel: what do you think your facial expression would be if you were going out to war (or perhaps returning from one) in a far distant land?
I can tell you, it prolly wouldnt be much different..

5 out of 5 stars, mate.

[FraGiLe]

Very nice hair/Model/texture work !!
Besides that the skin looks too "waxy" to me, like a Madame Toussot's figure, maybe U can work on the SSS-skin shading a bit ?

[Sue3d]

Awesome work; very realistic. I love the hair. To me his facial expression looks sad, weary and/or tired. The only thing that bothers me a little is the eyes - I can't quite put my finger on what it is, maybe that the eye whites look a little cloudy and pinkish. But overall, a fantastic image. :thumbsup:

[Handy.]

WOooowwowow. thats awesomeomdfiomeklf;kl

[floze]

Great job! :thumbsup:
One little crit that immediately catched my eye: the little 'flat' or blurred looking parts at either side of the nose bridge.

Is it possible to see this guy in motion?! :)

[Matze4d]

this knocks me off my socks :buttrock:

[Sphere♥]

Yikes! Incredible. Would love to see wires as well if you could.

[visionmaster2]

Amazing work !! incredible skin shader:eek:

perhaps to much bump on the nose and i dont like the no expression of his face..

5 stars !
:buttrock:

[bobtronic]

this is incredible realsitic, don't know why some say it looks waxy, to me it looks perfect :thumbsup:

Bob

[DAREONER]

very realistic, the armor is not perfect but the face is incredible, good job

[mickatt]

very nice work !!


there is to much specular on his face for me but the hair and the armor look amazing !!

congrat

[francescaluce]

:scream:.






ciao
francesca

[Leshiy3d]

:scream: wire wire wire!

[Sollesnes]

Very nice. The skin may be a bit clean for beeing a battle, but it's simply amazing done. :)

[aliasali]

Incredible!! so realistic that many wont believe it as a 3d character!

very nice job...u must write a tutorials,almosty!:d
:bounce: :thumbsup:

[Darkoo]

hey...perfect work...exept the eyes... there's sth wrong with em....

otherwise....gr8 job....

[BillSpradlin]

Excellent job, the hair is a little wierd above his left ear and the skin is a bit waxy in some areas, forehead and cheeks. The eyes are spot on though, great job on those.

[Finotti]

Crits ?????



Whats crits..... just amazing

[Junpei]

amazing work! looks real when looking at thumbnail. i think the background should be just a tad bit more focused. skin looks great and i like the scar, does look alittle clean/waxy though. -really really great :)!!

[MasterZap]

Crits are welcome. :eek: ! ! !

I can't find words. That's just amazing!!!

Did you model every ring in that chainmail or is it some insane piece of displacement??

/Z

[wybl]

this diserves a CGtalk award. It's awesome.

[MAXIMAGE]

This is amazing! You make a great work! I like a lot.

[Chanchito]

First of all, this needs to be plugged to the frontpage!

I'm guessing you used the shave and haircut plugin. I'm also working with making some fairly realistic hair in maya and I was wondering how you got it looking so good! What was your rendering time for this?

[cgg]

...I'm guessing you used the shave and haircut plugin...

i think he was using maya's fur, imo amazing results.

[azaghot]

this is awesome....

[Mike.H]

impressive looking

[Air.Borne]

This is by far one of the most realistic looking models I've ever encountered ... it's almost creepy!!!

Bravo!

[SUS]

MR. KOROSTISHEVSKI ! http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Truely beautiful work!

very impressive!

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[bluemagicuk]

See you on the front page in 5 ... 4 .... 3 .... 2 .... 1 ... er why isnt it on yet?

[circumlocutious]

Fantastic! The only thing about it is his eyes. For some reason they seem ... off. After staring hard at them, I think there may not be enough of a shadow cast by the upper lids. I dunno if that's it or not, but it's definitely something about the upper lid and how it relates to the eyeball/pupil.

But that's just being picky...

[BillSpradlin]

Oh and Mkor, you should turn up the diffiuse on the miss shader to get rid of the waxy look as well as bring back the detail you are loosing from your map.

[smaddl]

outstanding !!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[-KDX-]

no seriously...why are you posting pictures of your father wearing medievil armor??

really...this is a 3D forum homie...

stop kidding around!

-KDX-

[MasterZap]

Oh and Mkor, you should turn up the diffiuse on the miss shader to get rid of the waxy look as well as bring back the detail you are loosing from your map.

I disagree. Skin is waxy!
The whole point of subsurface scattering is to "diffuse" some of the small detail. Had a pure blinn had the same bump, it would have looked like granite. You see the bump in the specular layer, just like on practical skin.

/Z

[trance_dom]

DAMN.....nice man....love how you did the pores and chit

....gg

[Profane]

I'm speechless.this is a flawless piece of cg art.
As a maya user I would like to ask you this things:
How was the hair done? (it seems 'shave and a haircut there..or am I worng)
could you show us the shading netowrok of the skin?
thanks

[qur]

not to crit... not to say anything..
just to look at it for a long time..
that's amazing....:thumbsup:
congrads m8 you've done a great job here..
frontpage material:applause:

[ronaldomiranda]

When i become an adult, i wanna be like you ;)

Great art on that!

[BillSpradlin]

I disagree. Skin is waxy!
The whole point of subsurface scattering is to "diffuse" some of the small detail. Had a pure blinn had the same bump, it would have looked like granite. You see the bump in the specular layer, just like on practical skin.

/Z

Sorry but skin is not waxy, at least the last time I looked at a human, their face didn't look like it was made of wax. I'll have to disagree in regards to the whole point of SSS is to diffuse some of the small detail as well. The whole point of SSS is to simulate the way translucent surfaces absorb and refract light as it passes through the surface, not to disgard small details as you would suggest.

As far as seeing the bump in the spec layer, that is correct and can easily be achieved a numerous amount of other ways, but since the miss shader phenomenon does that for you, the old way of layering shaders to get that effect is no longer needed.

I don't want to hijack MKors thread, but I'd be happy to continue the discussion elsewhere =)

[jdsb]

oh man ,i am like :argh:

[Swoop]

Holy crap !
I litteraly thought this was a photo... sooooooo realistic.. amazing ! :D

[mummey]

very nice job! the lighting was the only way I could tell it wasn't real.

[Ziah]

wow one of the most realistic pieces i have probably ever seen on cgtalk. Really impressive thanx for posting

Give this guy tow awards

[imashination]

Technically fantastic but the guy really needs an expression of some sort, he's completely zombified at the moment.

[Luciferul]

god, that looks so real!

awsome!:applause:

[glassefx]

Looks Killer!

Just Chill the gloss a wee bit and tone down the intensity of the bump on the smallish details a bit... thats it...

Its almost perfect!

Titty!

[tsu3000]

Incredible! Fantastic work!

[FabioMSilva]

amazing. i just think there is a bit too much bump in the forehead. other than that, freaking awesome!

[theCloudmover]

This is freakin' incredible.

Absolutely NO CRITS! :thumbsup:

[BRUTICUS]

Id love to know the detail of the shader and see the maps involved in this.

Looks great!

[zkanal]

Great stuff ! :)
I am curious, where did you use waterblue_vector_displacement???
The chainmail?

[3dflasher]

Congrats man, you just picked the bar up and put it even higher. Simply stunning. I cant stop looking at it. Did you make your displacement map in Zbrush? There is a a lot of geometric detail in your final render that isnt on the low poly wire you posted. Likes like a damn good diplacement map to me...if so ...can you give us a peek at it :)

[altruizine]

Yeah, I'd love some insight on the chain mail. From the wire it looks like you've got an underlying mesh (cloth sim?) and then something attached to the verticies? Are you instancing chain links to the mesh? if so how do you keep those oriented correctly...

Great work.

[techfreak]

Holy, man that is so awsome! One of the most realistic, if not the most realistic face I have ever seen. I love the detail in the face and also the shader. I especially love the chain mail. Man that chainmail looks like a pain to place out. Congrats on the plug.

Latez

[FabioMSilva]

wow one of the most realistic pieces i have probably ever seen on cgtalk. Really impressive thanx for posting

Give this guy tow awards

yeah, this dude deserves an cgtalk award without shadow of doubts.

[abyjoe]

truly dedicated and best character work i have ever seen... you could come up with some tutorial or something... awesome work man...

[badbreff]

I've been looking for the inspiration needed to get me to work, and this may be it. But I can't stop viewing it! I am actually laughing at how realistic this is. There is very, and do I mean VERY minor parts that make the whole image almost fake. But you show this to someone as if it were an image of your brother at the renesiance fair, and no one would notice.

I applaud you!

[BurrowingDuck]

Looks great! Especially amazing after seeing the wire. It's so simple!

[Rennie]

HOLY Cow!!! :eek: Most realistic model I have ever seen! I'm totally blown away by this one. Amazing. I hope one day I will be as good as you..:buttrock::buttrock:

[SOuLjA`-]

Wow, very realistic! ...damn :eek::eek::eek:
nice work :thumbsup:

[Iysun]

one of the best 3d faces ive seen, awsome work :thumbsup:

[Naisa Evoli]

talent like this is just un-natural. Dont mess with this guy, i think he sold his soul to the devil!!. Amazing amazing work..wow..

[Fungusmonkey]

Stunning. Absolutely Stunning. I'm interested in knowing a bit more about the process you used, though. Is it a displacement map on a lower poly model? Because your mesh looks really clean but slightly simplistic for the sheer detail shown in the final pic. Especially around the nose area. Or did you just use bump maps, normal maps, etc. Maybe it's because I'm still a newb, but I guess I just don't understand how you got that render from that wireframe.

Is there a WIP thread, or maybe you could write up a short tutorial for us? That is just some seriously awesome work. Makes me want to burn my demo reel and start over again. :) Keep up the good work!!!

EDIT: Oh, and any links or tips you have on using SSS in Maya would be greatly appreciated.

[ralphmanning]

Sad eyes. Absolutely incredible realism - really fantastic job on that facial hair. The skin looks totally brilliant, however, if you forced me to crit, I’d say that it looks a little too “perfect”… like wearing women’s foundation make-up or something. I recognise the scar etc, but more blemishes could add something. I think if it were less monochromatic (don’t get me wrong, it is great skin colour) and had some slight more colour variations, such as very slight redness in cheeks and nose. Also, perhaps the dof focal blur is a little too accentuated. But this is beautiful, well done.

[CaptainAwesome]

wow.......

[Sean121]

Jesus Christ on a bicycle! :applause:

Very impressive! Would you ever consider writing a tutorial? I'm sure many would really appreciate it!

[akewt]

its a very well executed piece of cg. like some others my first impression was that it looked a bit waxy and skin could have more variation ie veins and redness. but they are very minor crits. when something is so close to reality these things become even more aparent.

ps. how the hell did you do the chainmail. pls let us in on your technique. i assume you contrained rings to the verts of the base mesh and rotated each one locally. is it a mel script? does it also mean it can be dynamic cloth?

[Chris Bacon]

Whe I logged on I first though..Why has someone put a photo of a man in here..Then I though NO WAY IS THAT COMPUTER GENERATED....its probebly the best example of 3d art that I have ever seen......Incredible.

[slowgolde]

Brilliant work! The expression is perfect. Im not sure but I feel the white of the eyes could be slightly brighter, other than that its flawless.

DaveH

[fabmedia]

It's an excellent job. You paid attention to every detail.

A couple of things that strike me though:
1>> Skin. It's AWESOME! Right down to the eyes and SSS. I like the technique and it looks cool so don't change it. BUT it looks like a laytex mask, WHICH is COOL!
2.>> Beard. I hate them. Not because I can't grow one, but it hurts to shave all the time. The only comment that I have here is that the hairs are too perfect. Meaning, it's not messed up enough.

EXCELLENT Work!!

[gudi3d]

Very impressive! WOW! It could be a virtual actor in a live action movie and probably most people would never notice!:thumbsup:

[gsuhy]

Where would we find more info on these:

mix8bump (thanks to francescaluce) and
waterblue_vector_displacement (thanks to Jonson_lee)

I found no results when Googling them...

Any links appreciated :)

[BillSpradlin]

mix8layer: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=160822

waterblue vector: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=141717

[Tom W.]

I usually stay within the animation thread, but I'm coming out to say this is one of the best and most realistic modelling texturing etc, hats off for you, it's breathtaking 5 *'s from me!

Wow it's good, damn.

[Cman]

Outstanding!

I just wish there was a little more shadow under the hair that's hanging over the brow - otherwise it's frickin' perfect.

[Hooch]

5 stars for you! :thumbsup:

The upper lip looks very Symmetrical to me though... :shrug:

[colintheys]

amazing!! really. Stunningly realistic. Could you show us what the bump map looks like?

I also really like the subtlety of the expression. he reminds me of Liam Neeson.

[erlik]

Wow! 120 people watching this thread. And you deserve every single one of us.

Ten million stars.

[larocket83]

indescribeable:eek:

[in your sofa]

groundbreaking!

[Chris Bacon]

This may seem premature but have you got any plans to do lipsinc with this it would be so amazing if you did.

[DesertKnight23]

Mind blowing realism. Amazing Job!

[character]

8 pages and still going strong. you definitely deserve it. and for the person that said he's too clean to be a warrior, they take baths too you know =p. i love the expression on his face by the way. and, just a side note, i don't think i've ever actually posted a comment on a 3d piece on this forum but i just had to say something. way to go

[PsYcHoPyRo]

You're telling me this isn't real?

[metroeast]

Truly wonderful work. Definately something to be proud of.

[eliseu gouveia]

I´d hate to be the one to animate him, he looks SO real that one slightly wrong move/twink/sneer/grin/blink and the spell is broken.

[ralphmanning]

Whe I logged on I first though..Why has someone put a photo of a man in here.
Haha, me also... I totally overlooked it at first. You know, I would love to see a “clay” render of this, or the equivalent.

[toonafish]

It's alive !!!

[jcakyeh]

i do not believe unless they how more wire image or in process images

[ThE_JacO]

edited out

[Artfallman]

Don't usually post here... but this is too good to pass up!

If you were going for realism (and if it isn't realism, I don't know what realism is!), you hit the nail on the head (no pun intended)!

You get an A++ from me!

And I read that some found that the model was waxy. Hmmm... It depends how you look at it.

Whatever it is you're doing, keep at it (because you're doing everything right)!

[JVaughan]

Why would would want to post a photo of some Society for Creative Anachronisms...

wait...

That's CG.

Um...

Yeah, thats so good its stupid.

-Josh

[MisterE]

Wow! Everything here looks superb! Modeling, textures, the hair, render! Only thing is maybe integrate the hair into the skin a little more.

Also, you didn't mention this, but did you model this after Liam Neeson?

[Artfallman]

I don't usually post here... but I can't miss out on this!

If you were going for realism here, you hit the nail on the head (no pun intended)!

Whatever you're doing, just keep at it ('cause you get an A++ from me)!

[neversong]

amazing.

bump on the bottom lip is what catches my eye.

and skin shader is awesome too.


cheers,
Hwasup Song

[MrPositive]

OMG that is sick amazing. Is it perfect....possibly not......but we are getting closer! Nice work man. Keep going....

[peekoot]

i can't believe the ammount of facial detail you pulled out with wires you have shown.. please tell us your secret ;)

[jdragon]

amazing work!!i m very like his oil map, so realistic...and his hair...can u show us your color,oil,bump map?? :thumbsup:

[taisir]

those people, who give that picture less then 5* should show the better human face version made with CG!!! COMMON!! :deal:

(and if you give that "bad" points then you should point out whats wrong, that would be fair 3d issue)

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VERY GOOD WORK, MAN! 5* from me, who´s lost the speech...:D

[ninjacore]

hahaha for godsake!!! i saw the tumbnail on front page and was like...****!! knowing this was gonna be cg. this is about as realistic as i have ever seen...
BUT

you need to give him an expression of SOME kind. maybe a heroic smirk knowing he has just slain some dumbass orcs on his way to the Tavern. and maybe that background makes it look too CGish??

it would be unreal if u modelled his entire body man!! the head is totally nailed so am sure you could have a ****in outstanding character here. maybe add a helmet!?

the wire you posted. obviously in its pre Sub D stage. you should Totally add your texture to that and enter it in the game art comps or something.

Listning to Old Tale by Korpiklaani has made this even better.

[daart]

:eek: can´t believe it :applause:
Great work!
Georg Lucas will hire you for the next episode,
without real actors, no one needs them any more :hmm:

[WeirdoStudio]

This is the best 3d human face i have ever seen. PERIOD.. Anyone who can critique this and say that the skin is too this, or the bump is too that is full of it.. I have looked at this image close up and it looks very realistic. 5 thumbs up.. :thumbsup:

[ambient-whisper]

great work man.

after spending lots of time working on faces for the last year i can give you a few tips.

1.) add some more assymetry. look more at photos of interesting people. characteristics help a lot

2.) maybe more detail to mesh so you could add some subtle details to the skin running over bone/muscle. ( especially around nose, and lips )

3.)some expression would be great.

4.) you already know, but your shader is stealing too much colour away from the texture.

[azozel]

outstanding! Very nice.

[400EX]

wow - very cool indeed - amazing job!

[satch919]

Now thats toooooooo cool. My god thats amazing. No pose needed, its fine as is. :buttrock:

Are you currently working in a studio now? I can't believe someone with your talent would be without a job.

[davidchiu]

Holy Crap !!!

Its really difficult to believe that it`s CG.

Great job :applause: !

[Oneironaut]

Awesome Im almost speechless, It looks sooo real. wowah!

[Joss]

HAIR! How did you do the hair with Mental Ray??

Need solutions!

[Ollarin]

Holy figs!

I thought it was a photograph! :eek:

Amazing, simply amazing! :argh:

[rwijaya]

jebus, that was one strong weed ive ever taken. for some reason it makes this image looks real. that displacement are mind blowing. also just a tip tho, the face overall really nice, but could use more detailed shape in it, and the face too symetrical for a realistic person. especially for a person that been through battle, his face must have been through shit. just my 2 cent tho.

well anyway, back to the bong. :D

[hi97bzo]

AMAZING! It looks really realistic. Goooood work!

[Gen-an]

the skin texture doesnt show up for some reason. could someone re-post it?

[xinraylife]

could you tell us How to make those metal circles on this soldieri's shoulder ?

i think circles achieveed by paticle system when i saw your wireframe?

[prats]

Suddenly feel as if I logged into a digital photographers forum:eek:

Outstanding!!! I'm sure what I feel will be very inadequate. The hair is very realistic and his eyes are expressive...
Excellent..:bounce: :applause:
A major source of inspiration to me

[prats]

How did u do the chain links? Is there any way u can put up a tutorial? It would be useful to beginners like us. Please

[bzouchir]

Wow! everything's really nice but the hair is just amazing!

is there a possibility to get the same hair quality in 3d studio max!?
what plug-in and is there any samples?

Cheers!

[craigs]

I don't often reply, but that rocks man, way to go...love to hear a making of...

great stuff dude..

craigus

[matty2x4]

I am going to have to concur... nice job!
And I am going to have to join in the requests... How did you do the chain mail?!?!
matty2x4

[MKor]

Wow ! thank you very very much all of you !; didn't expect that much attention :surprised

I love your crits ! after working on this model for some time i cant see all the wrong things .
I kinda get used to it - if you know what i mean, so i need your opinions to improve it.

My goal was to create a simple "default" head
that you can rig and than with a switch of some maps
make many different faces (theoretically you could also use same blendshapes for different faces and use the same technic for bodies)

I used the waterblue_vector_displacement shader instead of maya's, because it dosnt need any approximation editors and I think it renders faster somehow..

I didnt have time to rig him yet, so his face is in it's default expression..
I just tried to cover it up with the title.. did work for some people ;)

Will work on his asymmetry (using displacement)

I know he looks too clean, will work on that (though you can see that the texture I posted earlier does have color variations and veins - it simply doesn't show up yet)
to BillSpradlin - I did use the diffuse on the misss shader (I mapped almost everything) and it has nothing to do with the waxy look, but thank you.

I guess i'll just have to increase the contrast of the maps, make it less reflective, work on bump map and change the hdri.. (I used FG for the light setup, so there is no "specular" on the shader just reflections from the environment)

All the hair (including eyelashes and eyebrows) is maya's fur - it renders in mental ray.

I didn't model the chain mail (that would be an unpleasant experience I suppose :)
The rings are instances that are distributed , randomly rotated and constrained to another temporary objects that are "buttons" on a cloth object ...
with a script I had to write myself :sad:
but there is more than just the script, so I'll have to write a tutorial someday.

[TetraLynx]

Awesome work! I'd love to see another render of this with different lighting. The skin, hair, eyes, EVERYTHING is dead on but I think if you did some renders with dramatic lighting (torchlight, sunset, ect) anything to add contrast it would really make this pop. Just my 2 cents.
Kudos man, GREAT WORK!!! Keep it up!!!:buttrock:

TetraLynx

[leigh]

Great work! Only thing that sticks out is the bump map is really strong, but then again, men do sometimes have very rough skin. So it's more of a personal thing :)

Wonderful work!

[MikeNash]

Very nice Artwork you have here :thumbsup:
Everything is very well done, Im sure if you fix the few bugs someone of the street wouldnt even think it could be CG picture.

[send2raj]

WoW:buttrock: That's excellent piece of work...looks real.All the stars to you:applause: :applause: :applause:

[beetles]

Wow!! Thats so incrediblely realistic!! Quite creepy actually!:eek: Well done!:thumbsup:

[grafikdon]

Holy *#@! this is freaking AWESOME! For a sec I thought it was a picture.

[The Challenger]

Wow. This is one very impressive model. If it wasn't posted here on CGtalk, I would have easily thought it was a photograph. Amazing work man, congratulations!

[Ikerchan]

It's a kind of suprise to see the work like this...what a god creation!...
I wonder who is that guy was...I have an idea, perhaps you try to model a V.I.P. like Idol..this could really attractive ~

[chinaviper]

can i see how your lights setup,are you use GI?

[skello]

:buttrock: thats some pretty sweet displacements. any chance of seeing the map?

[RockinAkin]

Just like everyone else, I'll add - incredible model, try giving him an expression.

Also, anyone else see a young Liam Neeson in him? :D

[depleteD]

omfg
that is probably the best ive seen.

[krazeyhorse]

Awesome work! The greatest!

[skipstah70]

Wow very realistic!!... Amazing tex & render.. really nice job... I think one thing that might add a slight bit more realism is if you had a slight hue change in your texture right below the eyes and above the cheekbones... if you ever notice someone in daylight.. this area will look noticeably more blue/purple/or greenish than the rest of the face depending on the person. Hue change there would also help the eyes recede into the eye socket a bit too..

none the less truly awesome job!!!

Skipstah

[pupureg]

This is the best in this gallery

[Datasage]

Let me first say that its an awsome image.

My only crit is that the skin seems a little too soft and clean for someone who is supposed be a warrior. Other than that, great job.

[dotTom]

Wow, then I saw the thumbnail on CGTalk's home page my first reaction as "How come a photo got posted". I also like the way there's a lot going on in and around the eyes in this model.

[cleartea79]

hohoho cool..

[Psotek]

Good model, but the skin looks like wax.

[ahgzs]

wow.very nice~!~!~!
^o^

[tienj]

so realistic.~! amazing work...............
well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, dame~! it's so real~!:bounce:

[gryclls]

hey,nice work....vry good modelling i like the hairs its very well done..

keep goin...

[onlooker]

(I wasn't going to read all 12 pages of feed back so this may have been said already)

Looks great, but I see 2 things that bother me right away. The sides of his nose look blurred out, and without any detail. And some minor/less obvious (looks like post blur) blur scattered throughout the face. Also the blur starting in the background starts in his hair, and works it's way into the background getting overly blurred- way -way -way too fast. There should be blurry fall off, but this is really abrupt.

Other than that I think you have some really fine looking work there. :thumbsup:

[archie1181]

excellent work man:bounce:. looks very realistic. *sigh* wish i can be as good as you...keep up the good work. :thumbsup:

[CourtJester]

Fantastic! The only thing about it is his eyes. For some reason they seem ... off. After staring hard at them, I think there may not be enough of a shadow cast by the upper lids.

It's the fact that the eyelid edges need to be a bit redder; the skin gets really thin on that last bit of lid, right behind the eyelashes, before it meets the eyeball.

Other than that, HOLY MOLEY :eek::eek::eek:

I just about fell over when I looked at this! Hands down the best head I've seen, ever! Even the heads they did for Matrix get a run for their money, and where those might still win in the skin department, the beard keeps it real close.

[mangual]

The eyebrows are perfect.

[Crewler]

wow man, absolutly amazing. very realistic textures and render, nice done. :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

crewler

[amfeagin]

I love it Ithought it was a real dude

[formoso]

this is the most realistic cg face ive seen bar none. the skin is perfect and the eyes have real depth. as soon as the hair is fixed it could fool some ppl no doubt.

[herbertV399]

Some few things you should have mentioned, for people who do not know.

First - they are forgetting that you have received the bump and displacement map from somebody else - around 3 people are contributors to this work.

Second - this displacement map is generated VIA COMPUTER SCAN:
- high details of such precision and gravity stretch of the skin originating from
--- such low poly character --- indicate this fact.
I am working on motion capture and body/facial - computer scanning at Sony - even textures can be created this way - without any problems.

Third - There is a question from where did the person who gave you this scan - get the scan from. This scans are most often property of a company - extremely expensive equipment.

Still good work - allthouse your work would than restrict to creating the low poly head, making the shader, and setting up values for optimal displacement mapping.

[dror-zoro]

greate work ....very realistic
do you work here in israel?....
i would realy happy to see more of you work.
maybe i did and i dont know

in any case....keep up the good work

[Torhn]

simply perfect ! :eek:

[mangual]

Some few things you should have mentioned, for people who do not know.

First - they are forgetting that you have received the bump and displacement map from somebody else - around 3 people are contributors to this work.

Second - this displacement map is generated VIA COMPUTER SCAN:
- high details of such precision and gravity stretch of the skin originating from
--- such low poly character --- indicate this fact.
I am working on motion capture and body/facial - computer scanning at Sony - even textures can be created this way - without any problems.

Third - There is a question from where did the person who gave you this scan - get the scan from. This scans are most often property of a company - extremely expensive equipment.

Still good work - allthouse your work would than restrict to creating the low poly head, making the shader, and setting up values for optimal displacement mapping.



Herbert,

You seem like a cranky person. You tell the guy to mention the things you outlined but wake up... you forget the fact HE DID mention them. That's how YOU know about it... duh!

The fact he used someone else's bump map and had several contributed elements is only known to you because he DIDN'T forgot to mention it. So why are you telling him to mention it?

You just seem mad to see him get any praise for his work and mad at the other responses that maybe overlook the fact the work was not a pure 1-man project. Maybe they recognize it is still an amazing feat? Envy is hideous.

[cgg]

Some few things you should have mentioned, for people who do not know.

First - they are forgetting that you have received the bump and displacement map from somebody else - around 3 people are contributors to this work.

Second - this displacement map is generated VIA COMPUTER SCAN:
- high details of such precision and gravity stretch of the skin originating from
--- such low poly character --- indicate this fact.
I am working on motion capture and body/facial - computer scanning at Sony - even textures can be created this way - without any problems.

Third - There is a question from where did the person who gave you this scan - get the scan from. This scans are most often property of a company - extremely expensive equipment.

Still good work - allthouse your work would than restrict to creating the low poly head, making the shader, and setting up values for optimal displacement mapping.



i dont think he used bump and displacement map from somebody else and the maps was not generated VIA COMPUTER SCAN, my guess he created those maps using Zbrush.

[saanto]

This is a real photo!!:eek:
Compliments for the amazing work.:thumbsup:
Keep in touch
Cheers
Saanto

[neofg]

Man, When This morning I saw this image I was scared! Wonderful... I think one of the best human images I ever seen! Now, Can u post something about the mrsss_fastskin_shader's value, or something that tell us how have this amazing result? I'm working on a model since 1 month (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=207895), and it look still waxy... I find your is wonderful...Thank you for your work!

GOOD ART!

[DP]

Unbelieveble... then thing that strikes me the most is the simplicity in your modeling, and your excellent texturing... there's not a single wrong thing with this one... it's absolutely amazing...


it would be great to se a 'making of'
;)

Cheers man!

and superb work

[seescruffyrun]

my god,, so realistic, yet so simple... the geometry is so low poly, yet it looks so good,, i gues this is a prime example of "less is more". my hat goes off to you,, very well done.

[rajee]

Jaw dropping, kickass......i'm short of words.....truely awesome......

rajee

[k479]

Good job!!
I like it ~~!

[velan_rajan]

Cool work man.....http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif
senthil

[combatmantra]

awesome work man :buttrock:

[tahar]

... very good conception ..

[mikepolizos]

Amazing work! Ultra realistic.

Well done

[SUN]

It is a liveeeee
:thumbsup: Fantastic work Mkor:thumbsup:
WIP plz or better tutorial:)

[ravivjkumar]

wow superb work, awesome texture

[DKR1138]

Reminds me a fair bit of Liam Neeson... anyways this is f'n brilliant, no crits... its damn well near perfect...

[drubster]

very very nice!!! I like the look in his eyes. makes him come to live. He has got that "i've been looking over streched fields for a long time" stare in his eyes. very well done.

[tinitus]

Amazing!!!

[zapcat]

:applause: .

[animalunae]

Nice work, however, the skin texture seems way to solid to me, I would put in some blues and reds and yellows, now the skin looks like a piece of wax without much color. I would also take another look at the highlights, cause those look a little too waxy as well. Overall good work though.

[mitralone]

If the background was something from real world, I bet nobody could differentiate it from real.

Worship it.

Good job.

Tut pleaseeeeee!!!

I might even decide to go back to Maya:)

[HerrKatt]

Awesome! Very realistic! :thumbsup: No crits from me.

[cheybea]

Really great character.
The texture of his skin seems a tad bit...um, not off...but something is uh,...what I'm tryin to say is...
Gosh, I'm a goof
Toyish!
Thats it...he has an appeal of a Ken barbie doll...LOL
No "luster/moisture" to the skin...
But he looks really good.
I'm just being picky or whatever.
I mean, hey, what do I know...I can't even texture like that..
Ok, I'll shut up now.
=)

[AndHolzmeister]

give him some expression and he will start to talk!!!

[thoughtcriminal]

Hey man that's a great picture!

Are you going to animate him?

[FabioMSilva]

give him some expression and he will start to talk!!!

dont give him ideas, or he will give him legs and he'll start walking around in our world!

[M-Saber]

Damn..... Great job ,man
:scream:

[misu]

whooaaa !! :D Usualy i'm not impressed so easy but now i have to say that your model is excelent . The white of the eye need to be more white ;) but that's not so important .
Very good job ;)

[Ryan3D]

wow it's so realistic.. great job~!

[nolone]

:eek: ....yaaaaaaaaaahhh perfect!!!.... :eek:

[Eclisod]

I Want To Have Your Babies!!!

[karabo]

all I want to know is how you did the chain mail. You didn't make the links one by one did you?
Excellent work

[GatorNic]

karabo - check out page 11 http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=219323&page=11

I also have to say this piece is awesome and am glad to see it done with the misss shader.

Did he say how long it took him to do this project?

Don't think I saw that.

[MKor]

Originally Posted by herbertV399
Some few things you should have mentioned, for people who do not know.

First - they are forgetting that you have received the bump and displacement map from somebody else - around 3 people are contributors to this work.

Second - this displacement map is generated VIA COMPUTER SCAN:
- high details of such precision and gravity stretch of the skin originating from
--- such low poly character --- indicate this fact.
I am working on motion capture and body/facial - computer scanning at Sony - even textures can be created this way - without any problems.

Third - There is a question from where did the person who gave you this scan - get the scan from. This scans are most often property of a company - extremely expensive equipment.

Still good work - allthouse your work would than restrict to creating the low poly head, making the shader, and setting up values for optimal displacement mapping.


First - you are soo clueless thats just funny , but I thought that would be a good opportunity to thank again to people who make tools for the Mental Ray implementation in Maya
and make it more clear for other people :

misss_fast_skin (thanks to Master Zap) - is THE shader to make realistic skin fast and it renders really fast !
I think its already implemented in the latest versions of Maya and 3ds Max

I will make a tutorial on how i used it , but you can find many tuts here, CGTalk > Application Specific (3D) > Alias Maya > Maya Rendering > misss tests..

mix8bump (thanks to francescaluce) - is a great solution for using bump maps and mixing them with ease in Mental Ray.
There are also many other wonderful shaders and tutorials she wrote,
also thanks to Jozvex and sorry for not mentioning all other people who make wonderful tuts on Mental Ray here on CGTalk.

waterblue_vector_displacement (thanks to Jonson_lee) - is a great and easy way to use displacement maps in Mental Ray.

Second - this displacement map is NOT generated VIA COMPUTER SCAN:
I made it (and the bump map) with Zbrush and Photoshop (thats not that hard)..

Third - you are working on motion capture and body/facial - computer scanning at Sony with such en extremely expensive equipment http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif
- good for you ! and I just used my PC - very flattering..

PS

I dont know exactly how long it took me to make this because I worked on several projects at the same time.

I will write tutorials, just give me some time http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[floze]

Originally Posted by herbertV399
Third - you are working on motion capture and body/facial - computer scanning at Sony with such en extremely expensive equipment http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif
- good for you ! and I just used my PC - very flattering..

Ehehe, zbrush rules. :thumbsup:

Looking forward to your tut! Keep up the great work!

[cat_dancing]

סוף הדרך חבר
נחמד שאנחנו קצת על המפה

Awesome Pease Of Art

I still rememer the mouse trap you put in 3dluvr.
pitty you dont publish your works more often

עלה והצלח
:)

[inbata]

It's amazing!!
He looks so alive! so realistic..
amazing job.. defenitly a five star work..

מדהים כמה שזה חי ואמיתי כאילו צילמת אותו או משהו כזה
אחד היפים..

[foleypro]

Stunning Work...





I love working in Maya...



Even more so Now...

[nobrain]

nice to see so many israeli's.

be'emet sof ha derech. yafe me'od.

shimon

[BRUTICUS]

MKor, Looks amazing. How did you achieve the bump map? was it hand painted? What type of lighting setup are you using?

[zmora]

Amazing!!Great work!!

[SamSed]

CG Talk Award :thumbsup:

[Agiv3D]

נראה סבבה בנאדדדדם

very very very very very very very very very very

very very very very very very very very very very

very very very very very very very very very very

good!

[Rubi Hammer]

good work!

[Yodimus]

Excellent, as stated so many times before me.

Looking at the wireframe from an animator's perspective, one little thing i'd suggest is locating the crease in the forhead and splitting there. It would make for more potential when creating blend shapes, since creases tend to deepen and distort most noticably in that area.

Otherwise, yeah. great job man

[AndHolzmeister]

I guess some phong render would suffice to finish the speculation, give 'em a flat displacemap too. Can you give us a render from another point of view?

I guess z-brush is in there somewere hehe :)

[Dlacula]

i can say only one word: INCREDIBLE!!!

hey guy you are a genius

Compliments :thumbsup: :applause::applause::applause:

[iman121]

Wow......Very Nice work ...Wwwwoooooooooowwww

[shserge]

That is very strong! But I think, that the eyes may be brighter and have blicks. :thumbsup:

[luzak1]

This is the most realistic picture of a human face on this site. I can`t even imagine how you do it.

[midazolam]

MKor (or anyone else who knows about it)-

All the links I have found for this waterblue_displacement shader are dead. Is there a working link somewhere?

Fantastic job - really nice work (this is now redundantly redundant).

:m

[floze]

MKor (or anyone else who knows about it)-

All the links I have found for this waterblue_displacement shader are dead. Is there a working link somewhere?

Fantastic job - really nice work (this is now redundantly redundant).

:m
Have a look over here midazolam:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=141717

[midazolam]

:banghead:

Thanks, Floze - missed that post in the thread altogether the first time round.

:m

[Jim77]

Well, body, you are a MASTER. Congratulations ! :applause:

The face look, little bit may i say, made up (cosmetics), and
it's still look so realistic.....perhaps extra interesting.

Wanna see more.

[Nebelis]

Very Nice! Beautiful work

העברית חוגגת ימותו הקנאים אחלה עבודה....!

Can't wait to see you in expose - you deserve it :D

[herbertV399]

If you have been using Zbrush - please indicate this the next time
- this is crucial information - and not just "Maya and Metal Ray".
Zbrush - is a totally another story than Maya.

Presenting your work files doesn't mean you are proving the case, just that you have the files.

Zbrush can work good on 500 RAM computers = medium power computers are good enough with a 64 MB NVidea - computer is not the most cruicial factor in this case.

Under this circumstances here is another critic:

1. You have extremely large pores in the both chicks area - unless you wanted it - it doesn't fit with the rest of the skin - at least make them little bit less sharp.

2. Strange blurring around the nose and over the edges of the noise - on both sides

3. The skin looks of a doll - not much alive, but the displacement is VERY GOOD

4. The eyes have good texture, but don't look like embedded in the head - missing shadows perhaps? A bit too yellow - like he has dysfunctional liver.

5. Also the hair needs a little bit more work

Very convincing skin - althouse missing nuances of color - I know = shader problem.

Very good for the displacement, the rest still needs more work.

[floze]

If you have been using Zbrush - please indicate this the next time
- this is crucial information - and not just "Maya and Metal Ray".
Zbrush - is a totally another story than Maya.
lol, yeah, and please indicate you used the windows calculator to calculate the distances and ms wordpad as a clipboard for your values. He also forgot in the first place to indicate he used photoshop, does this make him a criminal?!

4. The eyes have good texture, but don't look like embedded in the head - missing shadows perhaps? A bit too yellow - like he has dysfunctional liver.

Go home check your monitor settings herbert. Disfunctional liver.. omg, havent heard something that ridiculous for a while now.

Sorry for the rant buddies, but this had to be vent.

[dcmoutinho]

oh my god !
amazing !!!:bounce:

[Sidonay]

Really it is very realistic work. Made with feelin...

:) :) :)

[ladyannika]

I am Floored! You are truley an amazing artist and I aspire to achieve your talent!

[adel3d]

Excellent realistic work...

[coldfront]

how amazing isn't that!?! stunning! The hair and beard is perfect. very nice work!

[ncxxf]

really nice work!glad to enjoyed it!

[abadone]

:applause: Merited price :applause:

[GerardDunleavy]

Great work, i have to agree this is the best work ive seen on CGtalk, i wonder how long it took to render?

[3dforall]

Man this is a incredible work. I really love the realism :eek:

[Stephen1212]

Fanbloodytastic m8 nice work!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :bounce: :buttrock: :applause: