What is the most realistic and sexy skin? What is your favorite skin?
akira1neo
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What is the most realistic and sexy skin?
I think it's https://www.daz3d.com/aurore-for-genesis-3-and-8-female
What is your opinion? What is your favorite skin?
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What makes a skin "sexy"?
There's no correlation between realism and sexiness in my opinion. Even the sexiest photographs are often the most retouched.
There are too many good ones for me to have a single favourite. Skins I use a lot are Mousso's Albany and Colm Jackson's recentish Bitsy, and there are a few by Sangriart that spring to mind. Aurore is one of the first Daz characters I bought, and I like Kayleyss's HD characters very much generally.
Three mutually contradictory requirements.
IDK about "realistic," but sexiest and favorite skin is probably the one from Kjaer 8. https://www.daz3d.com/kjaer-8
TBF, the whole character is sexy.
Realistic? Sexy? Favourite? Hmm...
Well, and this doesn't even address the whole G8.1/G8/G3/etc issue, where the best skin might be an older/newer one than what you normally work with. For the sake of argument, let's stick with G8 for today.
For realism, I like Babina 8, Alexandra 8, and Evangeliya.
For that sexy model look, Mousso's Albany, Gilia, Ginny, and Jessamy are pretty great. And if you're going for that "she's beautiful, but she might be a vampire" look, there's Anastasia.
Other faves include Romina, Zara, Isabelle, and Celani 8.
I don't make as many male characters, but I do like Edward's skin, as well as Gregory, Asher, and Darius. I'd say that Darius 7 is my favourite G3 character skin, male or female.
I think for me it's Inaru.
https://www.daz3d.com/inaru-hd--smile-hd-expression-for-genesis-8-female
+1
There are mases of decently realistic skin, having said that there are likely more that are too stylised.
Mousso has some good ones.
... As do Bleujaunte, Emrys, Colm Jackson and Lyoness, oof the top of my head; I may pop back to edit as I remember others.
Sexy?
How the hell are we supposed to know what you find sexy?
Dial in a shape you like.
If there are certain features of the skin you find sexy, perhaps a mole at the end of the nose? Then let us know, although that's more of a skin-blemish.
+1
Holt, Kwan, Vernon, Novak, Tyrone, and Elijah are up there, too.
(Not sure what a "most sexy skin" is, but I'm interpreting it as "sexy character with outstanding skin")
It's Tavi by second circle at Rendo. Finally one skin set, that is not to dark.
ther must be something about Iray, for the darker skin shaders are, the better the realism.
It is super hard to find a pale, but realistic skin.
Could it be that pale skin has more depth effect due to underlying tissue / bloodflow / bone seep through etc. that gets obscured by darker skins?
If we're talking realistic, then sure the textures matter, so skins for Albany, Babina, Kwan, Holt, and Freja, all render very nicely regardless of the underlying morphs they get placed on.
Sexiness, though, that's entirely dependent on pose, expression and camera angle. A character could be dressed in full Regency or Victorian clothing and still exude a level of charisma to be deemed sexy.
Good to know about Taavi. I purchased the character a long time ago, but for whatever reason haven't spent time with her. The reason I like Albany's skin a lot is also because it's lighter than most.
I don't think it's just IRAY because I've had similar difficulties in real life. Trying to get white girls to look like themselves, I had to bring them outside with me and I needed daylight, and it had to be cloudy. For Black girls, all I had to do was pick up the camera and take the picture wherever we were at. I think part of this was due to those cameras requiring a flash anywhere but outside in the daytime. The flash did well with chocolate colored people but it made really light colored people look much worse in the picture than they did in real life. Maybe the pale girls were overexposed by default. Maybe the dark colored girls benefitted from being all glossy and stuff. I don't think that problem exists anymore with all this fancy computational photography and whatnot.
Anyway, I find it interesting how some people have typed whole paragraphs about how they can't just answer the original question, while other people just came out and answered the question. There is some character you think is realistic, and there is some character you think is sexy. You could just say the names of the characters. It's not that hard.
How do your pale models look in real life with the flash? Probably about the same as in the photographs, but too hard to register with the short duration of the flash. The problem with natural light is that it's our brains more than our eyes that adjust for low light levels while with photographs and renders you only get what's actually there, so lighting anything "naturalistically" often requires unnatural measures.
Any skin that doesn't feature baked in details, such as highlights and breasts/glute creases and contour the outlines, are excellent examples of great skin textures!
The most egregious ones are sources that use full photographs of the model/cadaver, instead of using the skin components to assemble the overall texture; these types of textures are useless for any semi/fully realistic renders, as the baked in lighting/details undermine the actual light used in your scenes, not to mention when the texture artist contours the skin textures of the breast/Glute!
Looks like I'm wish-listing this character, as her textures looks like it was properly assembled and not using a photo of a model/cadaver!
There's an artist on Renderhub that does an excellent job; $60 tho, although I am planning to purchase one.
Oh, That is interesting. I did not know that.
thanks :)
IMO, the various generations of the Monique character qualify on both counts. Realistic imperfections in the skin make her more unique. The character expressions that are available in the bundles add to the usefulness of the character. She's a dark skinned character that doesn't look spray-painted. I have Monique6 and Monique7.
The Erynn character is also very nice. I can't resist freckles...
Speaking culturally, as a North American, not personally - "sexy skin" is perfect looking. Thus, the thousands of products on the market, like syrums, creams, makeup, tanning products, shaving or hair removal stuff. Perfect skin is flawless. Flawless means young skin with no wrinkles, marks, blemishes, and that is evenly coloured, is not dry, etc. Fashion and beauty advertisments are heavily retouched to remove all imperfections.
Real looking skin is imperfect snd has hundreds of, what are considered, flaws.
Personally, not culturally, some people find real skin with all it's imperfections and flaws, sexy.
On that other 3D website with all the sexy content, many of the female figures in the promo images, use this skin, presumably because it's the sexiest skin https://www.daz3d.com/lyfw-adrienne-hd-for-victoria-6
An example of flawless male skin is https://www.daz3d.com/hercules-hd-for-genesis-3-male
In my opinion, a realistic male texture is https://www.daz3d.com/bjarke-hd-for-genesis-8-male
maybe not the sexiest but this skin is so awesome https://www.daz3d.com/dolb-hd-for-ollie-8
That's by far the sexiest skin I have seen in this thread.
Sexy skin or sexy character?
Some say, flawless even color skin is beautiful therefore sexy... Personally I find such skin boring, although good for toy dolls.
In my eye, pale skin with freckles and blemishes looks sexy.
Personally, I kind of like moles, bumps, stretchmarks, cellulite, acne scars.... all the little imperfections that make us who we are.
I like it in real life, so I look to impart that on the characters I create and render.
To add to that, I am not a fan of "make-up"... As a male, I don't wear it and have always discourage my girlfriends (when single) and wife to not wear it.
Daz's (and other shop's) catalogs are full of models with flawless skin which, to me, in 3d art, makes them look fake/plastic.
Your mileage may vary/no harm, no foul.
There's a lot of great skin textures. The more detail and flaws, the better for me! I think https://www.daz3d.com/juan-carlos-8 is probably my favorite skin and I mean, it does seem pretty sexy (to me at least hehe). :) I've used it in quite a few renders. It has some nice detail.
Commodus is another favorite. https://www.daz3d.com/commodus-hd-for-genesis-8-male
’Realistic' - there can be objective criteria for that. But 'sexy'? What is that supposed to be in relation to skin? And which skin type is judged the same by everyone in this respect? Some like white skin, some black, some love 'café con leche', some copper brown....
Perhaps one can agree that pimples, warts and blackheads are not particularly sexy. But even scars are judged very differently.
In real life, I find swedish sun tanned skin most sexy. For a 3d recreation, it seems very difficult to get that sand like texture to a skin map.
vic 8.1 has to be up there