Translucent skin material

[luis.alcala86]

Hello everyone,

Was wondering if anyone had some suggestions or attempted a material like the one on the picture. Working on a creature that has this translucent skin, like the frog, with slight sss on it. Any recommendations and suggestions are very valuable.

[Morbid Angel]

Probably best bet to use vray material with glossy refraction. Or alternatively volume scatter material, but I didn't have much success with it when mixing with other mtls.

[luis.alcala86]

Dmitry,

Sounds like a good idea. Thing I forgot to mention was that I am working with Vray Next and Maya 2019. I'm not sure if there is a vray scatter volume shader.

[Morbid Angel]

There is, if you go to create / vray / create from plugin / BRDFScatterVolume

[luis.alcala86]

Awww...cool man. I will give it a go and see what comes out.

[stezza]

Would be a good idea to try and recreate this effect, It would be interesting to see how people build such a shader.

[luis.alcala86]

Stezza,

I agree. Stezza, you want to give it a go as well. The more the merrier.

[stezza]

Yeah will give it a go when I get to work tomorrow

[luis.alcala86]

Good Morning STezza,

Just wanted to see if you had an opportunity to share your findings on this material? ANy help and advice is appreciated?

[stezza]

Hi Luis.
I managed to get a frog model ready but then worked kicked in and that was the end of it.
Looking at it again I think there's no escaping the fact that some comp work in AE or Nuke will be needed to achieve the many qualities of this material.