Black Kid WIP

#1

Here’s the latest WIP of mine, still lots of things to do. C&C are welcome, keep in mind a couple of things:

  1. both hair and brows are quickly painted in post, i’ll do them with C4D HAIR later, once i’m satisfied with the rest

  2. body and background missing (as you can obviously see)

Modeled in C4D, painted in PS/Bp3D, rendered in C4D with the plugin Vreel Skin. GI, 2 area lights with area shadows and one directional rim light with shadow maps. Maps are all hand painted, except the eyes which are 100% procedural.

#2

I love it… alot of realism in it…

#3

Very good start indeed! He does have a lot of presence. That’s the most important and it’s very thus striking (?) I think! Eyes are incredible! Congrats !
Skin shader is beautyfull.
I guess lighting and modelisation makes a big part of the result…

If I had to find crits, considering it’s wip…
Maybe too strong on thoose few white pigments at this time? Some of them looks good, I thing some others are too present…
And maybe more tweak on upper lipps (too reflective?) and maybe little less dark pupils?

Could you post a wire please ?

#4

Very nice Alberto… I can’t really say anything right now as it’s kind of early and you’re probably aware of the lip texture and the overall softness of the skin which makes it look unfinished compared to the eyes area. In my opinion, the white part of the eyes is a bit too white and the feeling of translucency is almost gone.

Jacques.

#5

very good job …I so like the boy’s eyes…wow…the eyes were drawn to the quick…enen…keep up the good work…I do hope I will see more…:bounce: :bounce:

#6

nice but we have black hair lol! good job man!! :buttrock:

#7

The hell? You keep on getting better! :expressionless:

#8

That’s really great and I can imagine him finished…
Davvero un bel lavoro, anche io sono al lavoro con una bambina, ma con le orecchie a punta eheh, dimmi che ne pensi :slight_smile:
E’ la Little Fairy comunque il link è qui sotto, ciao e complimenti.

#9

Looking good Alberto. I have to agree with JacquesD’s comments though. The eyes are really “clean” now.

I understand it’s just a WIP now. But just voicing my opinions at this stage.

#10

awesome work man, could you post some wires?

#11

Thanks everyone for your comments, they surely will be useful.

wartoon, minminxu, Kurosaki Ichigo: thanks a lot, i appreciate it

centurionit: thank you, i’ll make sure i comment on your wip as well

shtl: thanks man. You’re right about the lips and the white spots, i’ll fix them asap. What do you mean lighter pupils, you mean the iris?

jacques, AdmiralRa: yeah the lips texture kinda sucks at the moment, i’ll prolly redo that and isolate it in the uv editor, looks too low res atm and the reflection on the upper lip looks wrong. About the lightness the white of the eyes: check this pic, this is the effect i was trying to get with that part of the eyes, do you think it’s too white compared to this photo? I’ve seen my render for so many hours that i’m kind of “drunk”, it’s like when you inhale lots of different perfumes, your nose can’t understand much. Thanks.

goku112: hehe man you’re right, i’ll have to think about a darker colour when i make the 3D hair.

younglion: sure, i’m at my folks place atm for the Easter break, all i have here is this wire that i uploaded somewhere, it’s not the final one but the topology is the same. I’ll make sure i post the final wire once i get back home.

#12

Ok now I’ll say my opinion about the color of the eyes:
I think is perfect, usually when you look at black people’s teeth you see they have it so white!!!
This is not only because they are really whiter than ours, but also because of the color of the skin…it happen also with the eyes, they looks whiter because of the same reason…
This is what I think…maybe I’m wrong…
Penso che vadano benissimo è solo una questione di colore della pelle: pelle scura denti e occhi apparentemente + bianchi.
Ciao:)

#13

oups yes, I meant the iris nore pupils :blush:

I’m not a photo realistic scientist, also coming from 2d illustration I would almost always make a contrast between them, even for 5%… But it’s not a dogma ! Depend on the all scene ?
A photo is a photo, but even on this one, (nice choice by the way :wink: ) I do see a difference in contrast and in the reflection between the pupil and the iris, maybe also because of cornea volume?

Thanks for publishing the wire, it’s very usefull :thumbsup:

Hope you wont loose the strengh of this actual state in micro tweaking!

#14

Beautiful model Alberto.
Keep up the good work!

#15

Hi Alberto!

Good modeling… good shading and very nice eyes!
Nice Work!

ps. salutami i tipi della dreamlike!

#16

This is really good! I would agree with shtl, however, that pupil needs to be a little bit more distinctive. The white dots on his skin could probably be added to the bump as well, but i guess it’s still way to early for that.
Looking forward to seeing more!

#17

Very nice so far. The lower eyelids look great. My added crits would be, the upper lashes appear to be too dense and the eye whites may appear a bit too white due to the black irises, which I think should be browned a bit to show the black pupil. I love the folds under the eyes as well as the nose. Excellent nose.

#18

Waouuw Dude… Simply amazing !!!

I’m very impressed by the last one, very hard to discern virtuality !

You said that it has been rendered in C4D with à skin plugin, but what is your render engine ? AR, AR2, FR ?

#19

Just amazing :eek:

i just can say " Bravo"

#20

Very good job ! I work on C4D too, your eyes are incredibles !!!
How can you make them with procedural texture ? Bravo !