Render this: SSS

[Ecuadorian]

I can't believe I was about to do a Google search for "MyHand 1.5".

Some quick Kerkythea experiments. The 0.50 one cooked for longer.

Absorption 0.00:

Absorption 0.10:

Absorption 0.50:

Absorption 1.00:

Here's the Kerkythea file:
Absorption 50.zip

[olishea]

great stuff, each one is beautiful! i like the depth and colour of second one the most. toxicovel that is lovely too! im cooking up another sss scene now but its taking ages.....may leave it over the weekend. dual core is just not enough any more!

[edmund]

Twilight
Rubberball material
preset 9
HDR image for lighting and two omni lights for back lighting
Go Syracuse Orange!

[david_h]

(Forrest Gump Voice): Would you like a chocolate?

NO SSS . . .I am still not sure what that is. . .

[solo]

damn, I was hoping to move on... you went and gave me the chocolate idea.

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[tallbridgeguy]

Love the chocolate.....best I could do was this thingy. Orange-sicle?

Pete thanks for the fun challenge!

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[david_h]

Delic-icious!

[boofredlay]

Dude you guys are sick. This is great stuff. I wish I had more time to play right now.

[Ecuadorian]

That looks yummy, TBG.

Move on, Pete? But SSS is like DOF; it's LOF = Lots Of Fun. Besides, I prefer to just lurk the water fountain thread for a while as everybody is giving away great ideas and I still can't come up with a practical one.

[EscapeArtist]

OK, I couldn't let it sit with my previous complaint about Kerkythea, so here's another attempt. Tried to get a cloudy emerald rock-crystal look to it. Might've done better with a reflection environment, but I forgot about it and have already let it run overnight.

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[woodtick]

I had to give it a try with this little guy.Twilight #9....let it render while I was at work yesterday for about 12 hrs.
Rich

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[dale]

Tried an experiment. Copied the dragon, pasted it in place, scaled one copy down by 10%, placed it inside the other dragon to give it a real subsurface, assigned the outer skin a transparent material, and the inner a green translucent material. Didn't turn out like I expected, but was fun.
The mint jello dragon

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[jeff hammond]

@dale said:

The mint jello dragon

woulda sounded better if you called it sour apple or something

[EscapeArtist]

@dale said:

Tried an experiment. Copied the dragon, pasted it in place, scaled one copy down by 10%, placed it inside the other dragon to give it a real subsurface, assigned the outer skin a transparent material, and the inner a green translucent material. Didn't turn out like I expected, but was fun.
The mint jello dragon

Hmm, if the IoR is the same it may have negated the effect. Perhaps applying a mild fresnel effect to the outer layer?

[david_h]

@unknownuser said:

@dale said:

The mint jello dragon

woulda sounded better if you called it sour apple or something

Looks more like Lime Green Life-Saver.

[olishea]

great renders guys. man this is getting technical!

how about some sub surface scat?! im sure a good old dump has some sss haha, so come on guys lets polish a turd

[Ecuadorian]

@woodtick said:

I had to give it a try with this little guy.Twilight #9....let it render while I was at work yesterday for about 12 hrs.
Rich

Woodtick, this looks very interesting. Could you share how you did it?

[arail1]

modo with drag and drop presets

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[solo]

Playing again.

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[woodtick]

Ecuadorian,
Well, since I'm really new to this I'm just trying different ideas to see what happens. Nothing scientific to my approach, but I'll share as best I can.
Dragon sits in the bowl: high reflective template
Dome goes on top for the render:diamond glass
spotlights as shown

Spherical sky, no sun, HDRI
Two small red omnis, nose& throat
skinny spotlight on tongue
tiny orange omni eye

started with rubber ball material and tweaked :

SU fog on
TW preset #9

That covers most of it I think.
Lots of great images here folks......keep 'em coming.
Rich