Sign In
Sign in
English

TopBanner.jpg


April 30, 2012 8:00 AM


by Editor in Chief


Last week, www.BlenderNews.org had a hard time selecting the winner for the Render of the Week Award, due to a notable influx of fantastic images uploaded by various talented artists. It was noted that it's not fair to pick just one render during a specified week and disqualify all others just because they weren't uploaded during that week. Accordingly, it was decided that top-notch works that were published prior to that week should also be given the chance to be nominated.


That means, even if a render was not given the award for a week, it is still eligible for the nomination later. Latest renders, though, will be given priority when selecting the winner. And please remember that this award is reserved only for those that are on par with or that excel top notch works published by artists and studios.  If such work does not exist during a given week, this award will not be given to anyone.


How, then, can you qualify for this award? Please submit your latest work to www.blenderartist.org or to the Member's Gallery of this site, or Contact Us to show where your work is available on the internet. It doesn't have to be a Blender render, internal or Cycles. A Vray render or any other render is fine as long as Blender was used as a part of your workflow. 


Thus, it is with great pleasure that www.BlenderNews.org introduces to you the winner of the Render of the Week Award for the week of April 30, 2012: Kent Trammell


Title:  "SSS Study"

Genre: Character Modelling


Final Image:

oldMan_02.jpg


Geometry:

oldMan_noWire.jpg


Wireframes:

oldMan_wire_.jpg


Artist's Comment:


About Me:


I'm currently employed as a modeler at Reel FX Creative Studios.  CG has been a passionate hobby since high school, influencing me to enroll at Full Sail University.  I graduated and entered the industry married to Maya, but couldn't convince myself to purchase the software for freelance use.  That's when I discovered Blender.  Since then I've completely transitioned (and improved) my workflow to be used in the open source package.  Now I use it full time at the studio and baffle my maya-centric coworkers!


About "SSS Study:"


Photo-realistic CG characters have always been an intriguing challenge for me and with that of course comes sub-surface scatter shading.  I believe Blender Internal is more capable than it's given credit for - including its SSS feature.  Inspired by Ben Simonds' 3-Layer method, I decided to develop and "tutorialize" a multi-layer SSS node system so I could achieve similar effects made standard by render engines like Mental Ray and Vray.  Sculpting detail exists in a multi-resolution modifier, eliminating the need to bake out displacement.  Textures were painted with re-projection and Photoshop.  The hair is composed of 4 particle-hair systems; beard, eyelashes, eyebrows, and scalp.  Each one has textures controlling density, length, and a blend (ramp) controlling the strand opacity.  I used Cycles for rendering the clothes and skin reflection (specular).


Ben Simonds' Method:  http://bensimonds.com/2010/05/31/three-layer-sss-in-blender-demystified/


Related Links:

1. http://www.ktrammell.com

2. http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?250627-SSS-Study

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvS2lGqscAI&feature=autoplay&list=ULMMHOzqgWsUE&playnext=3


lh blank rh
Expiration Date : May 30, 2012 00:00
Participants : 0
blank
Should www.BlenderNews.org feature "Honorable Mention" category as part of the Render of the Week Award? (0)
1 Yes
  0 (0%)
2 No
  0 (0%)
blank
lb blank rb


List of Articles
Subject Datesort Views
Blender Retrospectives 2020 Blender Retrospective Feb 20, 2021 210948
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 25, 2020 563029
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 25, 2020 426142
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 431879
Tutorials Top 15 Highest-Rated Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 375784
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 for Blender 2.8 file Jan 23, 2019 344879
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 23, 2019 684191
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 23, 2019 408278
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 file Jan 23, 2019 344797
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2018: Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2019 381557
Blender Retrospectives 2018 Blender Retrospective file Jan 02, 2019 375939
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2017 file Jan 09, 2018 968887
Blender Retrospectives 2017 Blender Retrospective file Jan 01, 2018 696658
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2017: Winners Annouced file Dec 26, 2017 550638
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials (Videos) Released in 2016 file Jan 16, 2017 765307
Blender Retrospectives 2016 Blender Retrospective file Dec 29, 2016 1060195
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2015: Seven Winners Annouced file Jan 20, 2016 790449
Blender Retrospectives 2015 Blender Retrospective file Jan 12, 2016 762159
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2015 file Jun 26, 2015 805510
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2014: Five Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2015 813722
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2014 file Dec 11, 2014 852598
Blender Features BI vs. Yafaray vs. Cycles - in Outdoor Arch Viz file Jul 02, 2012 79847
Render of the Week 'The Doppelganger' by Eric Basiletti - Winner of the Week of July 2, 2012 file Jul 02, 2012 49171
Production Focus PRODUCTION FOCUS: REVERSION file Jun 25, 2012 40413
Product Visualization PRODUCT VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of June 25, 2012 file Jun 25, 2012 56922
Render of the Week Why Some of the Renders Fell Short of Being a Winner ... file Jun 25, 2012 48347
Industry News Blender Whiz ... file Jun 19, 2012 28558
Render of the Week 'Gargoyle' by Michalis Zissiou - Winner of the Week of June 18, 2012 file Jun 18, 2012 91219
Production Focus PRODUCT VISUALIZATIONS IN BLENDER file Jun 11, 2012 38403
Render of the Week 'Urban Apartment' by Enrico Cerica - Winner of the Week of June 11, 2012 file Jun 11, 2012 60386
Blender Features BI vs. Cycles vs. Yafaray - an Artist's Observation file Jun 05, 2012 817999
Tutorials How to Add Automatic Dirt / Patina - Daniel RadialRonnie Metien's Way file Jun 04, 2012 119246
Render of the Week 'Pripyat, 1987' by Anuraag - the Winner of the Week of June 4, 2002 file Jun 04, 2012 58986
Render of the Week 'Minotaurus' by Tamas Torok - the Winner of the Week of May 28, 2002 file May 28, 2012 62040
Tutorials 'Subsurface Scattering' in Cycles Revealed file May 21, 2012 64708
Render of the Week "Cryptocephalus" by Gabriel Tomczak - the Winner of the Week of May 21, 2012 file May 21, 2012 58326
Blender Releases Blender 2.63a Update file May 14, 2012 33664
Render of the Week Bidirectional Interior with Yafaray - by Olivier Boscournu - the Winner of the Week of May 14, 2012 file May 14, 2012 81709
Tutorials 'Sculpting' the Tornado file May 07, 2012 46697
Render of the Week 'Remote Drone Spider' by Ben Milwood - the Winner of the Week of May 7, 2012 file May 07, 2012 63738
Blender Releases Blender 2.63 Released! file Apr 30, 2012 33667