Just finished the HUMAN course! I enjoyed every step of the journey and discovered a true passion for 3D portraiture while creating this piece! Ever grateful for Kent Trammell’s incredible masterclasses and expert workflow, learned so much, thank you!!
| Full credits, influences + references: https://rebeccabewick.com/
The skin shader looks nearly perfect on the close-up where only a part of the face is visible, but at longer distances could use a little extra sheen (actually called Clearcoat in the Cycles’ Principled BSDF) to better simulate the glistening of a real, living person’s skin. Gotta be careful, though: it can actually mask some normal map/multires details. On the other hand, by providing a separate normal map in Clearcoat Normal it’s possible to compensate for this effect, and/or otherwise mess with it (tiny beads of perspiration, for example?) Don’t get me wrong: your work is superb. It’s not a criticism: just a suggestion. :-)
Hi anarchymedes :) Thank you! I really appreciate your suggestion, notes are always welcome! Great to know - I’ll definitely do some testing with variations of those you mentioned. Following Kent’s course I created face zones in the material to control some of the specular variation and feel there’s a lot that I could polish to get the skin closer - lots to balance, it’s a journey hey!
Absolutely jawdropping. Well done.
Thank you so much Thalestr 🙂
This is truly fantastic work Rebecca. An amazing portrait and one of the best representations of age that I have seen, specifically regarding the work on the skin tones and age spots.
Remarkable.
Thank you so much for your comment Amber! I truly appreciate it. For the age spots I tried a combination of skin texture painting with sculpted detail and procedural blemishes from Kent’s course, it was so much fun :)
Oh wow that is so good. I think we can say you've reached enlightenment,Rebecca. I also really like the clay render, I don't know why those are so appealing.
Hi Omar, thank you for those words! Means more than I can say. :)
Excellent work Rebecca!
The hair and beard look really good, the skin texture is also outstanding.
One thing that bothers me a little is his right eyelid, it looks a bit too far from the eyeball.
Not a big deal but it notices on the closeup image and in the reflection in the eye and shadows.
Overall, you have an awesome result.
Congratulations on finishing an epic course.
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Hi Adrian, thank you so much for your feedback! :) Thank you for your note on the right eyelid too, I really appreciate it and will absolutely keep it in mind going forward.
Oh, this probably took a long time. May I know how much time you have spent to create the hair and bear please?
Hi Naiad! Thanks for your comment, yeah it took awhile :) but I would say that the grooming was one of my favourite parts of the process. The full groom + all hair materials took about 2 weeks to build while I was learning and progressing through the Hair chapter of the HUMAN course. I tried out a lot of variations to get it closer, adding some extra time.