Excellent thread! Most of my gallery is about finding out what can be done with Poser, how lighting works and such. Not much art there. Two small exceptions:

Spider's view (nudity) This was a happy accident. I love the unusual lighting and camera angle. It's got a surreal feeling about it. Technically not the best. I'd love to do a remake, but recreating the POV with Poser's camera controls turned out a big pain.

Staring at the light (nudity) The only Vue image in my gallery. Was banned from a German site because of the display of pubic lips. I can stare at it for hours and wonder what it's about. :-)

This is again a piece of the unpostworked render. The full image with some mild postwork can be seen in my gallery. I've decided to give the subject a rest because and some point it gets boring to keep fiddling with tiny details in the same old image. But that doesn't mean that I'm not open for further suggestions and experiments. Only that I'm now quite happy with the teeth and will reserve further insights for use in other work.

Thanks for all the input so far.

JohnRickardJR has some lip masks for Jessi in the FreeStuff, see attached link. Wow, thanks! (Jim Burton added a lip material to Glamourous Jessi). One more reason to transfer this face to GJ (said the mad cosmetic surgeon).

Well if you get the package (it's The Real Jessi), you will look at the teeth bumpmap and think "that's it? I could have done THAT!". Run you tongue over the front of your teeth - feel the vertical humps - that's all that needs to be on the bump. Paul, you're really not up to the state of the art in advertising, are you? :-) Relax, I was thinking about getting the package anyway, because I think you can never have too many Morris textures. The teeth bumpmaps would have only been a bonus. Anyway, when I run my tongue over my teeth, they feel perfectly smooth. Maybe I should get an upgrade for my tongue. Fingers work better for me, or, as I said, inspecting my teeth closely in the mirror. It looks like she has lipstick on, so I'm just wondering if her lips shouldn't have more of a glossy sheen to them mayabe? Yes, I thought about that too. As Jessi has no extra lips material, it would have required either creating one or else masking the lips with an appropriate bit map. So far, I was just too lazy to do that, but maybe I'll try now.

In a package? Oh, well then ... :-)

I suck at doing texture maps, but I guess I'll give it a try. Get the visual: Olaf trying to rub his teeth really dry, then light from the side and take a photo to help him understand the structure. Or else, standing in front of a mirror for hours wiggeling his head and trying to memorize.

Paul, I've tried anisotropic in the alternate specular, but couldn't really control it well. For one thing, it didn't react to bumps. So I went back to the regular specular, but of course, I can always increase the highlight size. I've actually plugged (1-texturemap) into the ambient because the texture tends to be darker towards the edges of the teeth. I could try and boost up the intensity a little. The teeth bump here is just an fBM node. I'm sure I could to better, but where would I start looking for a good tooth bump?

Looks phantastic. Congrats and many thanks!

Paul, you are incredible. I will try that and post the result here.

ynsaen: you mean to say you agree on the eyewhites?

Sweet! You never cease to amaze me.

There are rules for english spelling? Shocks! :-) SCNR

Yet another phantastic looking freebie! Thanks a lot!

I believe that a creative person is someone who first understands the theories in his area. Then with his imagination, he exploits, expands and perhaps even push ideas to their limits or even breaks rules. Any other discoveries based on ignorance of theories is purely accidental or the work of a genius. I wouldn't go that far. One can come a long way with intuition and some people might learn more from looking at examples than from abstract theories. But theories of perception, composition and colors will provide us with a language to express and think about what we see in a picture. They may even function as a life line to get us back onto solid ground when occasionally our intuition fails us. I imagine there are very few people for which they will not be of any help at all in the creative process.