SSS Study

by Kent Trammell on May 30, 2012

Image is: finished (?)

After spending the last year transitioning to Blender for all my CG needs, this bust was used as a vehicle for studying Blender’s SSS shading capabilities. Lighting is the only difference between the two; everything from modeling to compositing done in Blender.

Discussion

36 Responses to “SSS Study”
  1. Dave Shepherd
    Posts: 62

    Reallly nice pal. I too am transitioning from one of the big budget packages, and I’m finding blender to be really cool. For a tiny 3D business you can’t beat blenders easy setups, and feature rich tools(without being stupidly ott like some) and the great results that can be achieved.

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     May 31, 2012 at 5:37 am
  2. Dave Shepherd
    Posts: 62

    Is that jacket simulated cloth or sculped pal?.. its tooooo good!

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     May 31, 2012 at 10:16 am
    • Kent Trammell
      Posts: 190

      Congrats on the transition! Great decision.

      The jacket is sculpted. I appreciate the compliment! =)

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       Jun 5, 2012 at 5:20 pm
      • kurisutofu
        Posts: 9

        I’d be interested in seeing how you sculpt a jacket like that :)

        It is very good and real, I would not know where to begin with that kind of work!

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         Mar 22, 2013 at 5:35 am
  3. Justin Case
    Posts: 6

    Interesting lighting comparison. The one on the left looks painted, but the one on the left looks very realistic, even tho the character is obviously caricature. I agree with 3D, that jacket is scary good!

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     Jun 1, 2012 at 3:41 pm
    • Justin Case
      Posts: 6

      Oops! The one on the RIGHT Looks very realistic…

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       Jun 1, 2012 at 3:43 pm
    • Kent Trammell
      Posts: 190

      Thank you for the post =)

      Indeed I was quite surprised to see how different the feel is between the two when only the lights change position and environment lighting is turned off.

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       Jun 5, 2012 at 5:24 pm
  4. Miguel Alvarez
    Posts: 8

    supercool stuff!!

    He reminds me to Donald Sutherland. Nice work. Please keep the images and the tutorials coming.

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     Jun 7, 2012 at 10:19 am
  5. Nathan Ferguson
    Posts: 559

    Have you made a tutorial on how to do this??? :D Please make a tutorial if you haven’t already! :)

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     Jun 8, 2012 at 6:41 pm
    • Kent Trammell
      Posts: 190

      I’m currently in the process of making a series on creating a 3D Portrait. You can start here with part 1: https://vimeo.com/40884690 :)

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       Jun 11, 2012 at 9:21 am
      • William Daniels
        Posts: 10

        Just watched your video on Vimeo. As a traditional artist who’s now interested in “virtual” art, your techniques really appeal to me. Box modeling never seemed my cup of tea, but sculpting definitely is! I like the way you have the time-lapse video with your voice-over explaining along the way. Most time-lapses don’t have any explanation.
        Looking forward to your next video in the series!

        Many thanks!

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         Jun 11, 2012 at 6:24 pm
  6. William Daniels
    Posts: 10

    Amazing work! Something to aspire to. Did you use Blender Render, Cycles, or some other render engine?

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     Jun 8, 2012 at 8:39 pm
    • Kent Trammell
      Posts: 190

      My bad, I should have been more descriptive in the description (it will be updated). But I used Blender internal for SSS rendering and Cycles for rendering reflections/spec and clothes. Thanks for the kind comment :)

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       Jun 11, 2012 at 9:23 am
      • bert van den bosch
        Posts: 121

        How can you combine those things??

        Tutorial? :D

        -bert

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         Jun 15, 2012 at 12:39 am
      • Kent Trammell
        Posts: 190

        It’s just some simple comping. But yes, this will be covered later in the series!

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         Jun 15, 2012 at 4:22 pm
  7. William Daniels
    Posts: 10

    Amazing work! Something to aspire to. Did you use Blender Render, Cycles, or some other render engine?

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     Jun 8, 2012 at 8:39 pm
  8. Konrad chan
    Posts: 144

    Did you sculpt in blender or use an external program? If you did sculpt in blender what was the subdivision level you go up to? Because this is really awesome.

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     Jun 9, 2012 at 1:51 pm
    • Kent Trammell
      Posts: 190

      Everything was done in Blender including the sculpting. I think I went up to 6 subdivisions..maybe only 5. Thanks Kondrad!

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       Jun 11, 2012 at 9:26 am
  9. John Cox
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    Kent, you should submit this to one of the big CG Mags like 3D World or 3D Artist this is easily good enough to sit along side all the ‘Pro’ renders they put on their gallery pages. Show off Blender and get yourself noticed!

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     Jun 10, 2012 at 4:14 am
    • Kent Trammell
      Posts: 190

      I appreciate the encouragement! I tested the waters with CGTalk and got denied from their finished works gallery. I imagine the magazines would do the same :)

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       Jun 11, 2012 at 9:32 am
      • John Cox
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        I’d be surprised if 3D World didn’t at least consider you for their reader’s gallery. They’re good at showcasing new talent and are pretty Blender friendly as well.

        http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/05/30/cool-3d-art-the-best-cg-images-from-3d-world-readers/

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         Jun 11, 2012 at 9:51 am
      • NCubed
        Posts: 1

        There you go, it was worth it. Issue 159 arrived yesterday, with your renders on P.16. Great work – and always pleased to see Blender represented in the community section.

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         Jul 13, 2012 at 3:49 am
      • Kent Trammell
        Posts: 190

        Lol literally 3 days after Theois suggested this, the magazine contacted me. Thank you and I agree, seeing Blender represented is the best part!

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         Jul 19, 2012 at 9:14 am
      • Andy
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        I’m a bit surprised at that. That image is probably the best I’ve seen it’s a bit hard to imagine you did that with 3D modeling software forgetting about the brand name.

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         Sep 9, 2012 at 5:21 pm
  10. William Daniels
    Posts: 10

    In Part 2 of your tutorial, you use brushes (or alphas) that you imported. There is no brush import/export add-on in the 2.63 version of Blender. Do you know if there is a script for this? Or another way around it?
    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks!

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     Jun 12, 2012 at 12:05 am
  11. Ugly
    Posts: 5

    Umm… which is the real one, and which one was created in Blender? Or were they both created in blender?

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     Jun 14, 2012 at 11:39 am
    • Kent Trammell
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      They’re both Blender creations :)

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       Jul 19, 2012 at 9:15 am
  12. ARdenis
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    You should subscribe the picture on the right to the new blender guru’s competition whose theme is photo realism. Here is the link : http://www.blenderguru.com/new-blender-competition-photo-realism

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     Jun 24, 2012 at 5:11 pm
  13. Cedx3D
    Posts: 21

    very impressive work !

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     Jul 1, 2012 at 6:33 am
  14. Daniel Cruz
    Posts: 44

    You have the Gift
    I never will get to that point.

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     Jul 17, 2012 at 11:06 am
  15. the minecraftian
    Posts: 7

    i can’t belive how you can make characters… Because i can barely do anything on blender… Me compered to you… Is like comparing dirt to gold… But nice one

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     Jul 19, 2012 at 10:36 am
  16. cookiefresh
    Posts: 19

    The start of a really good blender tutorial series :)

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     Sep 3, 2012 at 11:32 am
  17. rahul malohtra
    Posts: 1

    Oh Man This is great!This is a sign of master.Would like to see a tutorial on this :)

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     Mar 24, 2013 at 9:02 am

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