Post-Mortem

SO.  This project has been a huge learning experience.  

I created a few difficulties for myself.  I lost my UVs when I split my model in Zbrush, and actually reUVed a 100,000 poly model in RoadKill.  That set me back a few days, and even when I did have the new UVs, they were so complex it was impossible to do anything with them in photoshop.

I have no understanding of baking normals and all that stuff.  I spent very little time trying to figure that out, it wasn't very important to my project since I was only rendering a single scene.

This isn't as far as I would like it to be.  Instead of going further with this I think I would benefit best from starting an entirely new project.

I'm interested in modeling something completely new in Zbrush.  It would be a step backwards, but I would be able to model and then pose so that would be nice...

Final Renders

Lighting and Core Shadows

 I like the lighting on the wall in the above image.  The soft red/orange is nice.

Working on the back lighting to try and get a nice core shadow with a back highlight to suggest a moon.

Yeah it's nighttime now. 

Finally getting some detail back in the hood now.  The folds are almost subtle.  But it's coming together.

Playing with Light

Some Daylight render thing I tried out.

Oh.  And I finished my UVs!!

Comps & Lighting

So I'm still exploring my composition.  I am also experimenting with lighting.

 

Her deformed hand creeps me out so much.

Now I'm going to look into: 

--specular maps

--subsurface scattering

--baking normal maps/transfer maps