sss done

so here's the final shader, might tweak it a little more later as I'm not 100% satisfied with the result. I've begun making the facialrigg, which will probably take a while to complete seeing as it is the first facialrigg I've ever done, but one can never learn to much.

initial_sss_textures

Here's a picture of the old man's face with epidermal,subdermal and backscatter textures. Haven't worked any with the gloss, rough and reflective maps yet so he's kind of shiny at the moment.

Additionaly, here's a lowpoly modell of the hulk sculpture I did a few days ago. I haven't worked any on the textures so the diffuse is very basic. The polycount could've been reduced way more,but I really wanted the siluette to be super smooth

initial render

Here's an initial render of the old man's face. Basic setup in maya, displacement and normalmaps, sss material, mainlight and rimlight. Going to make all the skintextures tomorrow and will hopefully get the skin to a final stage so I can start with the eyes, hair and additional stuff.

there's  an artifact along the edge, will sort that out tomorrow. It's due to the displacementmap being extracted form zbrush with uv-smooth enabled. Not that I think it matters due to the fact that if I decide to make and render some clothes for this guy ( I am currently thinking of making a facial rigg and skinning it) the artifact won't be visible.

old face

Title says it all. Think I'll go ahead and render this in the future.

Hulk

got bored toda, made a hulk sculpt, took approximately 2-2.5 hours.

Grenadier

Here's a sculpt of a character I'm doing for a friends project (he needs 3 military dudes - one explosives guy, one medic and a gunner. Re-used the head from the previous post and will probably reuse the afro-american for the next guy (medic)

exhaggerated facial features

Here's a quick facial sculpt I did today. Went with a more cartoony approach