Page 1 of 2

Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:48 pm
by grinsegold
Manufactured with makehuman, blender and gimp.
The texture on the pillow was a gift from pixar, that one for the petals from cgtextures.

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 5:53 am
by joepal
Ok, that is easily one of the best pieces I've seen made with MH as of yet. I'm impressed. :-)

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:53 am
by wolgade
Good luck to anyone trying to beat this contribution. :D

I assume you made your own skin texture. Did you use the original uv layout? Fingernails are a bit too detailed to be just painted on the default uv layout.

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:52 am
by duststorm
Simply wow...
This is an amazing image :)
If you would like to share more, it would be very nice to know what steps you took to go from the MakeHuman export to this render.

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:17 am
by grinsegold
wolgade wrote:I assume you made your own skin texture. Did you use the original uv layout? Fingernails are a bit too detailed to be just painted on the default uv layout.


I used the default UV layout as well as the default texture. Just cranked up its contrast and used the pointiness-attribute as spec map.
Rose skin.png

The fingernail verts, as well as the lips, are assigned to a second material - just a red and a white glossy shader, driven by a fresnel. There are some minor issues with the subsurface scattering, since i imported the model into blender with a scale of 0.1. The SSS-node works relative to blender-units, so small objects are hard to be dialed right. Look at the strange glow at her throat and her left sholder.
So, no, i didn't use a custom texture. In fact the textures of mh are one of the best things about it. I still use 1.0.2, but i saw Aethelraed Unraed's entry for the August contest. I assume that he used a regular texture of a nightly build. If so, i can't wait to download mh 1.1.0. What a great software!

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 12:16 pm
by grinsegold
duststorm wrote:If you would like to share more, it would be very nice to know what steps you took to go from the MakeHuman export to this render.

Ok, i'll try:
The pillow is based on a tut on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZIW73NfXgQ), with the model - roughly posed - as collision object.
The rose is just some bended planes with a rose-petal texture, with velvet-, translucent- and glossy-shader, bumpnode etc.
My custom skin shader i posted already.
The hair was easier than i thought. The interpolated strands worked pretty well this time. Here some settings for the hair:

hair shader.png
hair shader


Hair.L.png
particle system for left skulp


Hair 1.R.png
first particle system for right skulp


Hair 2.R.png
second particle system for even longer strands at right skulp


strands placed by hand.png
To prevent the children strands to grow on weird spots, it's best to extract a skulp-mesh from the avatar. Placing each strand manually gives full control, enabling children and "interpolate" fills the gaps.


The pre- and post-processing color management:

"Film" color management.png
pre-render color management

post process blender.png
post processing in blender


...and final color tuning in gimp (giving the skin back some blue hue).

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 12:44 pm
by learning
It is hard to outdo your June contribution, but you came pretty darn close!

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 7:04 pm
by Aethelraed_Unraed
Quite beautiful, well done!
grinsegold wrote:So, no, i didn't use a custom texture. In fact the textures of mh are one of the best things about it. I still use 1.0.2, but i saw Aethelraed Unraed's entry for the August contest. I assume that he used a regular texture of a nightly build. If so, i can't wait to download mh 1.1.0. What a great software!

You're correct in your assumption. I did pass the texture through an SSS-based skin shader, but apart from that it's the default texture.

I do recommend the nightly builds, they add some nice new features compared to 1.0.2, and I've yet to come across a bug.

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 3:21 pm
by jujube
I'm impressed by the hair, it must have taken hours to have it rest naturally like that without any of it passing through any of the meshes (or maybe that's just me).

Re: Sep. '15 contest contribution: "Deflowering Rose"

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:14 am
by grinsegold
jujube wrote:It must have taken hours to have it rest naturally like that without any of it passing through any of the meshes.

No, not really. As i mentioned earlier, there is this "Interpolate"-button in the toolshelf of the particle edit mode (where you comb the hair). You create a hair particle system with zero strands, go into particle edit mode, add your first single strand and pose it. With "interpolated" enabled, blender tries to guess where any further strand would grow, so if you proceed adding strands manually, they will easily look usable. A bit like child strands, if you will. If you watch closely the pictures above, you will recognize that i only added 149 strands in total, using this method. if some strands poke through the cussion, just comb those edit points up. That needn't to be perfect - noone will notice.
All in all, this won't take much longer than an hour or two, including tweaking (combing single edit points). Try it, it's fun!