Brian

[kagemaru]

Hi all,
this is brian, a colleague of mine.
i made this image for experimental purposes with vray nightly builds and its native curve rendering of hairfarm plus some investigations on 3d dof, photogrammetry, hdri, etc
Hope you like it.

[Morne]

Excellent start
The eyes and eye lids looks a bit weird

[voltron7]

looks really good...looks very realistic except, the DOF is a bit strong for a natural look, IMO.
Would like to see one with less/no DOF to get a look at the hair and shirt...Good job!

[kagemaru]

Thanks.
I've attached a version with less dof (even though the previous one was done trying to mimic a picture i took of him, i agree it's maybe too much but i was going for an optical correctness) and a couple of crops from the native resolution (4k).

[voltron7]

Wow, that looks even better, again nice work, skin and hair look very real...
...as for DOF, I wasn't imposing it was incorrect, just wanted a good look at the skin/hair materials...

[kagemaru]

Thanks again.
Sorry mate, i didn't want to be rude, i said that just because i agreed the dof could be disturbing but i intentionally choose it that way. You're not the only that said that (basically everyone else ), so i guess this is the case where trying to mimic reality it's not that realistic right?
Cheers.

[voltron7]

No worries, you were not rude...and it may still be realistic (just wanted to see those nice details.)
Again, good stuff...I never try making cg peeps, so I am often amazed at some people's creations.

[deflix]

very impressive work - CG faces are the holy grail for sure, and this is a great effort. I reckon your mate would look exactly like that if you took mushrooms, so you only need to remove the trippy factor!