The Final Battle, Max Kor (3D)

[myeyes71]

amazing work!!!

[iguana007]

HOOOLY SH*T AWESOME … :applause:

[Texamosix]

Possibly the best rendered human I’ve ever seen… amazing. :eek:

[goktugg]

excellent work… mate! really so real…especially eyes*lips:) very well *3d head

[MKor]

ahhhh … are they rewriting it … I wanna read it … can’t wait … please cgnetworks guys hurry up a bit!

In the meantime…

To setup the shader in Maya read the Jozvec tutorial here …
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=163360&page=3&pp=15
(and some corrections from Francescaluce and Master Zap himself

and read the pdf from :
http://www.lamrug.org/resources/skintips.html

If you have any problems after that here are some tips:

Make sure there are no flipped normals on your object,
if you have any light setups and/or FG/GI in your scene

• turn them off temporarily and make just one “key” spot
  with raytrace “hard” shadows, so you can properly set
  the amount of the global sss effect :

look at the “self - shadow” on your object (if it’s a head - under the chin for ex.)
and play with the Scale Conversion parameter in the Algorithm control

• the shadow must be completely black except for the edges, were you should see a very slight “color bleeding”.

Add additional lights and play with all the subsurface scattering effects…
(after determining the colors you want, use them as the “base” colors
in your textures afterwards).
To make the color variations in your textures show up more on your material

• map the Subdermal Scatter Color with the same texture you used in Epidermal Scatter or/and Diffuse Color, but with the appropriate change in Hue, Saturation and Value…

Then you’ll have to decide whether you want your material to have real reflections of the environment (with or without surrounding objects) or
you can use the two build-in fake specular colors
(that will work only if you have any regular lights in your scene), or …
you can use both, so your material will work nice in any condition :

• real reflections will work with just FG on,
• reflections and fake speculars with lights and FG/GI,
• just fake speculars with lights only…

In addition to real reflection (Reflect Weight) there is also fresnel effect build-in

• use the Edge Factor and Reflect Edge Weight to control it.
  Blur your reflections with Reflect Shininess and increase the sampling
  quality in the global mental ray settings to get rid of the noise
  (you can also use “fine” bump map that will make the noise less noticeable)
  and to speed up render times you can make already blurred environment map or
  blurred Environment Shader (material’s local environment).

[Osaires]

Realy nice image

ok if i got some questions?

I realy wonder how you made that chain mail
did you manualy rotate an place all the chains?
and how did you copy the chains, looks only like small locators inn the wireframe image, is it some kind of placeholders?

[tinitus]

thank you so much!

[foleypro]

Thanks for the Tuts…

Awesome…

[DigiDe]

that is n incredible render the facial hair is dead on!

[hadimoom]

great character & Texture…

[SUN]

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…Hi MKor
…Your work it is Fantastic (and very popular)

…U must create one DVD tutorial for your work.
…Modeling , texturing , hair ,scripting … (maybe with Gnomon)

…I am sure :deal: u sale many many many copys

…just one idea

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[ChanceXUAN]

GREAT work!good model and texture,especially the armor!well,maybe it will be better if the character has a tough look

[madgemini]

God!!Fantastic work~~~nearly a real man!!

[coochaki]

Great work,awesome texture.
thanks alot man!!!

no joy without alloy !!!

[ramiro3d]

Wow, congratulations, i haven´t seen anything more realistic than your creation, i just…admire you jeje.
PLEASEEEEE PROMISSE ME THAT YOU WILL WRITE A TUTORIAL FOR THIS, PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE.

Can you post the entire texture map and the bump file?. I really like to know how is the set up for the skin. I use 3d Max for working, but i´d love to experiment about the set up you used for it. I also like very much the wire you did. If i´ll write you mi email, could you send me the basic mesh for seeing under 3d Max, please?

Very good work man! im looking foward to see a tutorial of all this.

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.

[Jimal]

wow wow~ amezing!@~~

[HanTao2]

wonderful nice good

[xLonewolfx]

MADHIM! :eek:

one of the most realistic faces i have ever seen!

[AWaqas]

nice to see so many israeli’s.

be’emet sof ha derech. yafe me’od.

shimon

Oo yeah? Arent u guys good at this 3D things? U shouldnt be surprise dude!! lol. The ppl of the books rulez!!

[jo_3d]

To quote a legend

“Impressive…most impressive”

You’ve done a great job, hats off to you but what’s the guy thinking? You’ve done a great job on the model, texturing, lighting and all, now give him some thoughts. He’s in armour is he going to battle? is he leaving behind loved ones, or facing a nemisis? Be brave and breath life into him, a mind and soul not just a body.