A face I've been working on for a couple of days

[jirard]

I have been trying to understand rigging and animation lately so I have not done any new modeling aside from some tweaking to previous models. So I decided to play around and came up with this.

 

 

 

And these are the scenes I have been working with to test out bones and animation. The animation is pretty bad so I wont post that. Crits always welcome

 

 

 

[steve392]

I like the face ,got a lot of charector ,no crits sorry

[StormedFX]

I like your model, and these should be an interesting animation. I have tried to render mine just like your second picture(SSS, I guess) but coannot get it to work. Any recommendation? I would love to see your animation.

CHEERS!

[largento]

Looks great, Jirard... especially with the SSS!

[flashawd]

Looks great - I love the style of all your characters.

[jirard]

Thanks guys!

The model is actually rendered with both sss and a.o. I forgot to mention the ear was made by William Gaylord. Here is the link to the ear. Thank you William. I did tweak it a bit and took away a good many patches because my computer is very slow. Here are the settings for Ambient Occlussion in the choreography.

 

Here are the settings for the "face group"

 

 

And these are for the rendering

 

This is a choreography for the lighting I use. A simple 2 light setup. If you dont use a.o turn up the intensity on the keylight.

sssao.cho

 

Here is a head (same one from a previous post) that has the sss settings that you can use.

zhead.mdl

[Animus]

I always like your models, and they look inspiring for animation too.

I like your image with the gray ground, but you need more light to show the face expreession

on the guy with the ball.

 

Michel

[jirard]

I always like your models, and they look inspiring for animation too.

I like your image with the gray ground, but you need more light to show the face expreession

on the guy with the ball.

 

Michel

 

Thanks Animus

I used A.O on that and had the Ambiance Intensity set to 100% as well as the Occlusion. I am not quite sure how to direct the light in that case without causing there faces to be washed out.

[StormedFX]

COOL! Thank you for sharing... Looking forward to your animation.

CHEERS!

[DarkLimit]

-Great work Jirard and thanks for the settings insight.....

[Kamikaze]

Nice Face!, I can feel his personality just exploding from it.

[jirard]

Hey guys I kinda forgot some of the settings.

On this model I decided to play with and use these shader settings for the skin. I dont know how they effect the final render cuz it was my 1st time using them.

 

I also want to make sure I put the right light settings

fill light:

key light:

 

And these were the original settings for A.O.

 

and 1 more face I dont really like it but the render settings are similar

 

[jirard]

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sqaurejaw.mdl

[jirard]

I was listening to blues the other day and came up with this character. This time I am gonna actually try and finish him and build a whole scene, I just cant decide if he's gonna be in a juke joint with a band or outside on his porch all by himself. Ideas and crits are welcome.

 

[John Bigboote]

INSPIRING! Thanks for posting your settings. DIG the dobro! Your faces are quite unique with a wicked touch.

[largento]

My vote's for the juke joint! Great facial expression, Jirard!

[John Bigboote]

Hey Jirard---I've been staying away from SSS because of it's render hit... how much does it add to your renders?

[jirard]

Thanks guys

My rendertime with sss usually only takes a few seconds to 2 minutes depending on my lighting. My computer is 800 megahertz and I have 256mb of ram with a 10gb hard drive thats 80% full hehe. I usually only use 2 lights but on this I used Yves Skylights. The render time went up because of that. It took 16 minutes to render 9 passes. I always scale the model very small in relationship to the lights and then test the render until I get the look I want without the artifacts. this seems to cut down the render time considerably. I used sss for all of the sufaces and groups on the little kid characters I modeled and they only took on average 40 seconds to render with 1 pass.

[jirard]

I decided to make sure I was giving you the right info

Here is screen grab of the the cho. with the extinction rates, density and size of the model in relation to the lights. It took 1 min 10 secs to render.

 

and here is the render (no textures)

[John Bigboote]

Wow- it looks so 'PLASTICENE'... and I mean that in a GOOD way!

[jirard]

I decided to model the whole body and use some type of rig. I was making things to hard on myself the way I modeling him before. Anyways here is a rendering of the progress so far. I still have some modeling to do on the pants and I want to make some suspenders for him. Oh and never mind the loud tie I just used the first color map I could find.

 

[jirard]

I decided to add a couple of renders that I did. A friend wanted to see the blues guy with some other characters I did so I sent him these.