some of you might have seen this on the odforce forums.

But i have had it on hold for a couple of weeks until H15 was released… which was just last night so i am looking forward to playing with all the new tools and features… in particular the skin shader / fur tools and character tools.

So to bring you up to speed on what i have so far, here it is.

Geometry:






Very Early Hair test:



Early Skin tests:





I look forward to testing out all the new features of H15 and maybe learn a thing or two.

-andrew

So using the new skin shader in H15.

I still kinda dont know what im doing. This is just the results of lots of tests.

the help is sparse, shallow scatter color = is the color of the shallow scatter . Would love an example file or even use it on the Pig test geoemetry as that still uses a Mantra surface general shader.

that looks really good. cant wait to see more

Wow, that is looking good.

You are well on your way to getting it right without documentation.

Not sure about that.

A lot more testing needs to be done though. Gonna be looking around a lot for reference/inspiration from other shader/render workflows namely arnold.

Here is a quick test i did with some hair. Gonna do a number of styles, im not as good as i want to be when working with hair, so Im hoping i can work out and understand hair styling/shading more.

it looks very good.

thanks , not as good as yours but i gotta try.

More tests.

so amazing!!!

Just testing some of the new features in H15.5. The main hairstyle was done in H (i have yet to replace the eyebrows and lashes). 

Don't think i will be using a 3rd party for grooming anymore. 

the only thing that way cumbersome was having to keep re-selecting geometry but only through clicking “Scripted Select”. So far i cannot find a way to hotkey it.

I will keep testing and pushing it though.

Great !!!

Cheers.

I am probably going to do a video on it and all the tools like my old H13 one. Just waiting for a small bug to clear and a very small RFE that would effect the process in a huge way.

I'd say maybe dial back the veins in the upper eye lid.