A dry run.

Wow! Great skin! Beautiful work with your skin shader. I need that plug-in.

Yeah that is very nice, however, I think if realism is the goal need veins and need more variation in skin color. It just still looks a bit too plastic.For a procedural skin shader very good.Fun to see what you can do w/ difficult textures.

By the way...isn't there other ways to manually create some of these effects anything goos does?

It's hard. But you can use fractal noise by itself without Anything Goos. Anything Goos makes it a lot easier to attract noise to edges/facets of your objects.

Roll back the veins a little and you've got it! Looks like she needs to see a Dr. about them.

Na, it was the overexposure to the sun (tan) that caused the veins in the first place.

LoL, boy I needed that laugh. ....interesting texture, but veins aren't usually brown and of course, not placed that way.These kinda things are very difficult procedurally. Do you have sep layer for the vein structures? Great exercise tho.

I've got 7 or 8 procedural things going on with the skin. And for bump there are two other procedurals on the skin.

Have to say...looks very believable..sss looks good.

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Aaaahhh. I see. Well it definitely looks better.Could that be why there is a line on the last frontal? I noticed on several shader examples that sss seemed to eliminate this, but don't know if that is the cause here.

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The front is three seperate models. The body and the two nips. Anything Goos is applied to the nip models and not the body model. Otherwise, every curve on her body would have Goo shading. I'll live with the seams because they're only noticed when the camera is (very) up close.

The seams also show up if I leave the body as one model and use shading domains to apply different shaders to her nips. I guess my other choice would be to leave the body as one model and get out the spray can. But I want to see if I can do skin without using any texture maps.

OK... so I'm fairly new to Carrara, and yes I took the plunge and bought C5, but only std... money issues... I'm also not beyond begging... is it possible you would do a tutorial of the last shader you made? Please... Christina

I've improved the skin shader since the last post. A tutorial is a good idea. I'll write one up soon and post it here before I forget what all the parameter settings used were for. It will work for C5 also.

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Thank you for not making me grovel. :)

Wow! That's great skin Shonner!

Now that is excellent, and shows Carrara's flexible power (as well as Shonner's high level of ability) in creating specialized shaders! Me thinks you should pass that shader around -- even sell it?

Excellent job!

I've been planning to buy "Anything Goos" for several weeks. I'm doing it right now.

Message edited on: 01/10/2006 12:51