CC3 Native

Thor in my film. using headshot on all the cast.
This one was easy to make as i just turned all the settings to max.
The dude is huge in real life and I was happy its pretty accurate. He will be a huge part in the film
 
   

 

So I had already made celeb characters with CT8.

As you can see it has issues with picture textures. 
This is pics of head shot. Mulan pics.

Here are 2 different ones, one Auto, and one in Pro that I made using Sofia Boutella from the new Mummy movie.

This is the Pro mode. I used long hair from the market place, but I found a more close hair style on Daz that I plan to bring in.


The Daz hair that is closer to Sofia's hair in the movie shots. 

I think it came out decent. Maybe it could be better for rendering, but I think it would be fine for a game model.

I tried out a few new pics for the mummy project. I may have to go into Gimp to make the photo's better, before headshot use.

I need to fade out the hair line so I can draw in the text better, so it will come out on the model. Either that or I need to just take 
the model of her into 3D coat, and or Blender and put the runes on her in one of those programs. 

To make things a bit easier you could put the runes in the Blend channel, so you can adjust them independently and leave your face texture alone.

I had to adjust hair and I found that the hair Opacity image is a PNG file, which is tricky to adjust. I had better luck changing it into a JPG, with everything but where you want the hair black. You can also do nice fades then.

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To improve my portraiture skills, I worked on a female character, which, as Mike Kelley has said, is more difficult.

I used again one of the "This is not a real person" images (# 324). I don't have Photoshop, and I wanted to tone down the highlights on the image. I found a way to do this In Paint Shop Pro using an Adjustment layer that controls Luminancy. (I will write that up some day.)

I used Gigapixel to enlarge the image to 2k x 2k, which I then fed to Head Shot. The resulting face was a bit too smooth, so what I did is combining the regular normal map with the normal map for the old woman face, which I added as a second layer in my graphics program. You can then use the Opacity of that layer to control the contribution. This will give you sort of a middle-aged normal map. I then added various wrinkle morphs.

The hair was problem because I didn't have the right hair for my character. So I created the hair with the Head Shot Auto setting and then used a regular hair texture to give it some structure. I also set the hair to Digital Shader Hair. 

A final feature of the portrait is that I gave her small pearl earrings, which I made green (emeralds?) and to which I applied the Digital Hair Shader. This gives a nice surface scattering effect with back-lighting.

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Thank You for the advise. I also am looking at either modeling the eye balls, or seeing if I can texture/uv game eyeballs in CC3 so I can make the double pupil eyes that are on the characters in the movie. 

I have already made some custom weapons and imported them into CC3 but I haven't learned,/figured out how to set up the textures, and or like the balance points to position in the characters hands yet. 

I need to learn these things so I can start selling them in the marketplace/store.