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diblackpearldesignsdiblackpearldesigns Posts: 1
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Hello, all!

I've tried everything I could think of to get skin effects similar to these, but I can't seem to manage it. Is there a particular render setting that I need or a special shader? Thanks in advance!

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,971
    edited July 2021

    The second one looks like it's postworked in PhotoShop, you can get a lot of filters and actions that can do that, for example here:

    https://www.photowhoa.com/product-category/photoshop-bundle/?orderby=date
    https://webmaster-deals.com/1498-mega-oil-painting-photoshop-action-bundle.html

    The mermaid is probably a Poser render as the mermaid tail is Poser only.  Not sure what you mean by skin effect, but here's the same V4 character as the one used for the mermaid, converted to Iray with htis:

    https://www.daz3d.com/iray-converter-for-generation-4

    and with skin surfaces tweaked a bit to get that shiny look, if that's what you're after. 


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  • margravemargrave Posts: 1,822

    If you download GIMP (it's free), it comes with a filter library called G'Mic that has a bunch of artistic filters to replicate the digital painting look of #2.

  • KrzysztofaKrzysztofa Posts: 226

    margrave said:

    If you download GIMP (it's free), it comes with a filter library called G'Mic that has a bunch of artistic filters to replicate the digital painting look of #2.

    Any suggestions on which parts of GMIC to use? I have it and it has a boat load of options.

  • margravemargrave Posts: 1,822
    edited July 2021

    Krzysztofa said:

    margrave said:

    If you download GIMP (it's free), it comes with a filter library called G'Mic that has a bunch of artistic filters to replicate the digital painting look of #2.

    Any suggestions on which parts of GMIC to use? I have it and it has a boat load of options.

    A few I like to use:

    Basic Render

    Illustration Look

    Dream Smoothing

    Pencil

    Combined

    (Illustration Look base layer, with Dream Smoothing set to Screen blend at 50% and Pencil set to Multiply blend at 75%)

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  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,169

    Taoz said:

    The second one looks like it's postworked in PhotoShop

    Honestly, it doesn't look like a render at all to me; it just looks like a drawing. 

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,971

    Gordig said:

    Taoz said:

    The second one looks like it's postworked in PhotoShop

    Honestly, it doesn't look like a render at all to me; it just looks like a drawing. 

    Could be.  Can be hard to tell these days with so many techniques and options.  Here's some test samples I did a while ago using PhotoShop actions on renders. First one in each set is the original.

     

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  • MartirillaMartirilla Posts: 182

    The free G'MIC is now available as an 8BF plugin, and can run anything that can handle that popular format of old-school Photoshop plugin. But, as you can see, you're still going to need some heavy postwork and overpainting to get something like the first two images. Multi-pass renders, layers and a pen-tablet are your friends, and trying to do it 'all at once' is going to look cheesy even with G'MIC to help.

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