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Took a short break from rendering because of work. Made this render while I was blasting Girugamesh's new EP 'Gravitation'. I was headbanging like crazy and it inspired me to make something. For some reason, I imagined her singing during the chorus of the first track when the girl's vocals kicked in. I see her being a girugamesh fan.

I love girls who show their pearly whites, but I'll admit that I really need to practice making more expressions. It's hard making a good, natural, convincing expression in XPS/XNA. I think I've gotten pretty good at making smiles/grins, which are the easiest to make. I think I want to tackle maybe more 'asymmetrical' expressions, ie like when Nyotengu licks her lips or something rather (which I'd love to do a render of) or perhaps just more difficult expressions to get right, like puckering up or something.

Beauty pass took 58.5 minutes and AO pass took 16 minutes. Beauty took a little long because I cranked some settings up pretty high, but still stayed under an hour (just barely), which is my own, personal 'reasonable' limit for a simple image like this. Merged AO map and added a slight bloom effect in Photoshop.

Character: Marie Rose
Workflow: XPS -> Maya 2015 -> mental ray -> Photoshop CC

Description
Took a short break from rendering because of work. Made this render while I was blasting Girugamesh's new EP 'Gravitation'. I was headbanging like crazy and it inspired me to make something. For some reason, I imagined her singing during the chorus of the first track when the girl's vocals kicked in. I see her being a girugamesh fan.

I love girls who show their pearly whites, but I'll admit that I really need to practice making more expressions. It's hard making a good, natural, convincing expression in XPS/XNA. I think I've gotten pretty good at making smiles/grins, which are the easiest to make. I think I want to tackle maybe more 'asymmetrical' expressions, ie like when Nyotengu licks her lips or something rather (which I'd love to do a render of) or perhaps just more difficult expressions to get right, like puckering up or something.

Beauty pass took 58.5 minutes and AO pass took 16 minutes. Beauty took a little long because I cranked some settings up pretty high, but still stayed under an hour (just barely), which is my own, personal 'reasonable' limit for a simple image like this. Merged AO map and added a slight bloom effect in Photoshop.

Character: Marie Rose
Workflow: XPS -> Maya 2015 -> mental ray -> Photoshop CC