Yolanda - Part 2
quick second progress post for Yolanda.
hope to finish it by next week.
Made and Rendered in Blender 2.91 - Cycles
The hair groom has been reworked as the past result didn't satisfy my expectation, the parting technique is cleaner but doesn't blend very well. so this time I decided to do things a bit differently, using Texture Influence to paint a Density map( much qu
Black flags to prevent the hair translucent effect from ruining the portrait.
Shading Viewport
Wireframe
Super Model I used as Base Reference.
New Skin Method Breakdown
bald
hair
Old Skin Shader
New Skin Shader
I have revamped Skin shader with a more complex Specular reflection inspired by this article "https://vgl.ict.usc.edu/Data/DigitalEmily2/"
I divided it into 3 parts
Main, Secondary and Oily layer
The good thing about procedural Shading/ Texturing is I can change it on the go which is really nice. I use lot of maskings to create imperfection on face. which can be easily tweaked by playing around with some math nodes.
Sweater made in MD
Sculpting Viewport