Monthly Archives: September 2010

Eyelashes as Eye Opener

Posted on September 30, 2010 by loramel

After finishing the skin shader one of the last things left to do was to create Ara’s eye lashes. From my first research on hair it was relatively clear that the eye brows and eye lashes would have to be … Continue reading →

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SSS journey coming to an end

Posted on September 24, 2010 by loramel

This post marks the end in my various experiments and explorations to get a fairly plausible skin for Ara. The result you see above is based on the 3 Layer SSS approach. Ben Simonds does a a very good explanation … Continue reading →

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Makeup Session

Posted on September 17, 2010 by loramel

A quick update only. I started to texture Ara’s face. The shader itself is only a plain lambert shader where I use some color maps to preview the painting result. To have some guidance later in the texturing process, I … Continue reading →

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On the Current State of Production

Posted on September 11, 2010 by loramel

It has been some time since the last Ara related post on my blog. So I think it appropriate to give some overview about the current state of production and what happened during the summer.

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Summer is ending …

Posted on September 6, 2010 by loramel

… and so is the ( not entirely voluntary ) break in the development of Ara’s Tale. Real life demands left only small amounts of time for my short, which I invested into finishing the texturing for the entry set … Continue reading →

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