Skin material tutorials?

#1

Hi,

So I’ve been trying to create a realistic skin for a model I’m working on:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=43&t=1055854

So far I gotten no further then a base color with a softening specular map that looked flat and boring or a messy multicolored diffuse map.

The tutorials I found seemed only to focus on how to slap a photo on a 3d model.
I was wondering if any of you might have a tutorial available that goes into the details of a skin material. How to mimic the fuzzy hairs on the face, different skin on different parts of the body, which areas have a slight translucency to it, how to add veins without making your model look sick, etc.

Any short advises or helpful literature will be appreciated too of course!

#2

I have found this to be rather helpful -

http://www.lamrug.org/resources/doc/sss-skin-tutorial.pdf

Its a good starting point, for more realistic skin texturing.

#3

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