Hello guys,
thanks for the comments… I guess I must be doing something wrong because Slimer is using the misss_fast_skin shader… It is correctly set up with lightmaps etc. using the tutorials found here on CGTalk, so I guess it’s just the shader settings. I will post some of the settings later this night. In the meantime, I have a new render for you… again with tweaked sss settings.
If you want to test to see if and how the SSS shader affects your object try assigning it on its own on your object, without diffuse shading or specular. Just try a plain miss_fast_simple and mess around with it.
When you are satisfied with the results just copy the settings over to a more sophisticated miss_skin shader to get the final control/look or just comp the pure SSS pass.
As it looks now, you don’t seem to have any SSS effect going on.
Cool slimer, I’ve always wanted to create him in 3D too 
Hello!
Thanks for the comments and tips, but I’m still having trouble tweaking the shader.
Here are the shader settings I used:
I forgot to tell that the images I posted includes an AO pass (set to 50%).
Here are two images I made with the above settings, with and without AO.
thanks
thats a cool character, well done material as well.
I think his hands should be more pudgy and cartoony
currently they look too well defined which makes them look
kind of unsuitable.
I also think he dont needs fingernails.
haha! i love slimer 
the model and materials are very good! =D the expressions too!
try other kinds of sss, dont be afraid of the wax look, its not a human skin anyway :] just for the experience
hey still looking nice dude, why not give it a shot at an other sss shader? you could alway try
Thanks for the feedback!
l’ll try different SSS shaders in the coming days
when something nice pops up, I’m sure to post it here.
later!
great character and hes coming along very nicely… good work dude…! keep the updates coming…
Hi guys,
After a couple of months, I finaly got the time and spirit to continue working on Slimer.
This past weekend I created this render, but it still isn’t finished.
The area’s I still like to improve are his mouth, teeth and gums but I also would like to add a bit more transparency and refraction of the background.
I’m making this a still image but I do plan to make him fully animatable and do an animation but for now it’s not my priority.
As allways. any comments are welcome.
So you finally came back to this one
as you said it yourself the teeth and gum need some work.
but i dig the shader itself man, really love it
Hi people,
Last night I created this update.
For the refraction I created a “normal vector” renderpass wich I plugged in to the displacment effect slot in After Effects on the background. Because the sss shader doesn’t support transparency and refraction I needed to composit the different ellements.
Still a lot of work to do, but for now I’m happy how I got the refraction working.
Great, with the refraction it looks more slimy. But be carefull it doesn’t gonna look like glass.
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