A halo. I like incorporating halos in my pieces, sometimes for no reason other than I just like how it looks.

Thank you! I have a big “fog volume” in the scene that scatters the light, makes it hazy and gives it depth.

Hahaha

World Creator to build the terrain, being into cinema 4D, use forester c4d plugin to create the vegetation, and octane render for textures, lighting and rendering.

Now this is the tip I've been waiting for!

Ha! I'll embrace it!

I have a lot of old masters that inspire me but I don't really work of a straight up freference. More details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/yi9lp3/comment/iui853y/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Yes, I definitely understand the hesitation with DAZ. I've been using it for years and have learned to improve on it a lot. If I were to start again, I'd probably pick up ZBrush a lot earlier and try to master that. DAZ is simple but limited, whereas ZBrush has a steeper learning curve but gives you much more control.

Thank you. I'm glad you noticed the vein!!

I didn't not sculpt from scratch, like in Zbrush. I use DAZ studio, Cinema 4D and Octane render as the main programs along with other plugins. I create the model in DAZ which is actually pretty simple, pose the model in the program and then export to Cinema 4D. I then build the scene around the imported model. I have an Octane Render plugin for C4D that I use to light and texture the whole scene. For me, the lighting and texturing is the where 90% of the work comes from. One skin texture alone is made up of 16 or so maps plus several hundred other parameters.

I also use a particle system like XParticles to simulate and create dynamic cloth. That can also be tricky because it's following the built-in physics engine so you have to keep fiddling with it to get it the way you want—such as adding turbulence here and tweaking gravity there.

Thank you! The skin is the thing I've spent the most time over the years trying to perfect.

You're right. Thank you for pointing that out. The compression stuff throws me for a loop sometimes. Looked back at the file and realized that I should have compressed in photoshop as Bilinear, but I think it was set to Automatic and that's why it looks faux-sharp in some areas and has that boxy-looking compression around the face specifically. I learned something today. lol

Much better name. Lol

It’s a brand new piece. Finished it last night.