I was doing some experimenting with new toon looks. Sometimes I think that ultra -realism is too much. At times like this, I think the best thing to do is just to take a step back and try a little something different. This time I wanted to try for something half way in between toon and realism and this is what I came up with. I started off with the material from the 3D Universe Toon Generations 2. This is not the standard off the shelf skin. The toon skin from 3DUniverse is devoid of any bump maps or SSS maps --just the Diffuse. So starting with that, I made some of my own maps for bump, specular SSS Weight and so on before applying the Redpsec SSS shaders to it. The toon eyebrows and hair are modified Star Hair products and the Toon Generations Eyebrows. It was a great first try, but I believe that I need to make some improvements to the eyebrows so I'm going to see about working out some of my own but this has convinced me that you can get a good toon going in Octane.