I'm just so excited to see your stuning work, hope you can show also some wires.

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What characterd did you modeled? your work is great.

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I modeled and textured the Prophet of Regret and the grunts.

it looked pretty good. You work for Blur? The cinematics they developed for Halo Wars were amazing.

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Celphirio

Damn...your skills are good! I was using vray for some time, then I passed to brazil thinking..ok that's what elite uses! and now i see that u pass to mental ray. Is that more efficient? Don't know yet what differences are between xsi and max on mental ray render, I'm looking to achieve a realistic character, so I want an expert opinion if you don't mind

Cheers brother!

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Oh hey, they made an action figure out of your character. or at least, i think that it's the character you are talking about. very awesome. i hope the game does well ^_^

since you're all about mental ray .... any advice on how to keep detailed normal maps functioning in mental ray's skin shader?

If your in Max; so far skin and normal maps haven't worked out for me. I generally use zbrush to render out displacement maps that I adjust the levels then use as a bump map.
A good method is to render out a displacement map at subd1 in zbrush, then go up to level 2 or 3 and render out another displacement map that you use as a soft light layer in photoshop to pull out the finer details...Kinda easier to show maybe I will just post a pic of my texture setup in the future.
Oh and the toy way made before my model

If you want realistic characters I think Mental Ray is the way to go for now. Last I checked Vray really didn't have a good skin shader. Mental Ray's skin shader is complicated but it looks good when you get it right.
Mainly I just use what I'm told to, haha.

really the grunts? great work there! i was really impresed on how tough they looked.

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