Character: Astronaut

[Kevin Grand]

I really love this. Nice job, his suit seems a bit....stiff and not very flexible, but that isnt your focus anyway.

[Virtuoso]

Excellent work Fellah.A 180 degree from your usual style,but shows you can cover more bases in great fashion.Very well done. Is it real or memorex?................:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[fellah]

Kevin Grand
yes, you might be right there about the costume. but I wanted to make something really simple(no wrinkles and such) to not take away the attention from his face. I might fix it later someday though, I've had my own doubts about it. thanks for the input!

Virtuoso, thanks mate! it's really fun to take a turn from your usual style, there is so much things to learn in the other styles. and it's really fun to swim in unknown water aswell, gives you more inspiration for the other stuff later.
the face is a kinda mix from imagination and reference, I used this pic as a start
ref pic (http://www.fellah.net/temp/Ref1.jpg)
then I went on and tweaked..

[Facial Deluxe]

Howdy Fellah :)

I like it very much, I'm too studying head (how very original of me), I'm impressed by your rendering/lighting skills. Could you give a few expanations on your light rig and render ?

Congrats, Facial.

[buzzlightyr]

Looking really good know crit, but because this guy is really hairy thicker eyebrows may suit him better, just my op-

[fellah]

Facial Deluxe
sure, but it's nothing revolutionary.
it's just 1 HDRI mapped on a sphere, with radiosity set to 2 bounces, and RaysPerEvaluation to 2x6(it's really enough with 2x6 if you have 2 bounces(and shading noise reduction), it gives you a nice irregularity to imo. I played around alot with the size/contrast/brightness/rotation of the image to, to get the lighting where I wanted..
then another important thing is, instead of specularity on his face, I used softed reflections. determined with a specularity map, but used in the reflection channel instead.. I didn't raytrace these reflections, as that took way to long to render. they are just made up from the same HDRI as I used on the sphere to calculate the GI, but instead putted in the "Env tab"(surface editor) to Spherical Map, and reflection blurring turned up to something around 85-95%..(different for the lips, less there..)
btw, the eyes has raytraced reflections though..

uhm, I don't know what more I can say.. :) except that it lies alot in the textures to. especially the subtile things.. I made alot of testrenders and tweaks to the textures, aswell the materials.

if you want to, I can send you the lighting setup, and the macro I used on the image after render, aswell as the render before the post processing. I think you will learn more from that then reading what I just wrote, alot is actually in the PP as you will notice.


buzzlightyr
yes, really good idea. I will fix it, thanks for the help!

[tmcguire]

She's a man !!!!

[Facial Deluxe]

Yes with pleasure :) Thanx a ton !!
olivier.jeannel@noos.fr

Btw, if you want to have a look at "my" head, I have it here :
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65789&highlight=facial+deluxe

Scroll down to see the very last one...

I'd be more than happy to have your crits about it :)

[fellah]

fixed the eyebrows in this pic, made them bigger. hopefully more manly :rolleyes:
here's a pic with them fixed,
http://www.fellah.net/temp/Fellah_SpaceTraveler.2.jpg

btw, I noticed I forgot some info in my first post. so if anyones interested, softwares used:
Lightwave, for 3d.
Photoshop, for texturePainting and postProcessing.

crits and comments still welcome :)
take care

[fellah]

Facial Deluxe
oh, sorry. seams as we posted at the same time :) I will fix the scene and the other stuff for you asap. and I'll head over to your thread right away :)

[Haifisch]

gj first of all, but I think that you should work a bit more on the hair, it doesn't work for me nearly as well as the rest of the model -the suit of course.
hf

[McSpirit]

Really good.. the eyebrow update really did the trick :) :thumbsup:

[fellah]

Haifisch
yes, good points. he need more variation on the hair, to black now.. I will tweak it aswell as add a better costume, soon. thanks for the extra pair of eyes.

thanks McSpirit

[buzzlightyr]

Looking good looking good :thumbsup:

[Facial Deluxe]

Yep Better better !

Thanx for your mail, will check out as soon as my actual work is finished :thumbsup:
Thanx a lot !!

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