Skin shading and mattes

Just sharing some interesting stuff on skin shading and mattes.

alshader

https://labs.chaosgroup.com/index.php/rendering-rd/v-rays-implementation-of-the-anders-langlands-alsurface-shader/
http://www.anderslanglands.com/alshaders/index.html

Cryptomatte
http://www.jonahfriedman.com/wp-content/uploads/psyop_IDmattes_poster.pdf

The alsurface shader is really versatile, i like it.

I never heard about cryptomatte. It’s really interesting! It would save my disk space when i got 40+ object IDs in encapsulated EXR (for nuke comp) on a 3000+ frames animation !