V-Ray | How to make REALISTIC HUMAN SKIN | ALSurface, FastSSS2, Subsurface Scattering & Translucency 

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Ammmaazing tutorial!!!! Translucency and subsurface scattering were two difficult subjects for me but your amazing easy explanation really cleared the concept and functionality. Fantastic demonstration.

To the point, detailed, and clear. This is how tutorials should be. Love i! Subscribed in an instant.

Yet another great tutorial! The explanations are what set your tutorials apart from many others. Knowing why you push a button is so much better than just being shown which button to push. Doing it your way makes transferring everything you've learned from a tutorial to one's own projects so much easier. Thanks once again!

Thank you! This helps alot plus thank you for all these Vray tutorials.

Very helpful, organized and helpful .. thank you so much for your valuable content :)))

I love your tutorials, thank you very much for your lessons, you are a great fellow!

cool very clear thanx

you should take us through the head model .applying map rather than weird objects.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. It really helped a lot!

Great and in-depth stuff as always.. i wish V-ray would improve their SSS models and simplify them. SSS in vraymtl: is too confusing with way too many parameters that needs balancing, it shouldn't be necessary, and is it single-bounce? FastSSS2: More simple to use, but has no glossy fresnel / micro GGX also limited to single bounce. Alsurface: seems to be the best solution for skin, but i dont get why v-ray left out the 3 layers specular component from the original ALsurface in Arnold. VolumeScattermtl: The superior SSS model using Randomwalk scattering. Full control of bounces etc. but it's feels unnecessary that we have to use it with vrayblendmtl to get the refractive/reflective component, should be made into the mtlnode itself. It also doesnt work in V-ray GPU and generally seems slower than the other randomwalk SSS models out there in other renderers. they should really rework the SSS approach in V-ray as this is too confusing for new users and perhaps make it into a single unified SSS node. This is in my opinion one of vrays biggest weaknesses currently. Oh well, i should probably post this on the forums instead :D

Hallo Jonas! Mich wundert es immer wieder, dass so viele User VRAYALSURFACE Material in 3dsmax nutzen, um damit ultra realistisch zu rendern. So wie ich gerade schaue und teste und mir dabei deine Videos anschaue, haben wir tatsächlich im Material Editor unter 3dsmax , sobald wir VrayALSurface auswählen, tatsächlich nur wenig für Maps zu verfügung, sowie ich das von anderen Apps kenne. Bei anderen Renderern haben wir z.B auch den Specular Slot, den Roughness Slot, den Ambient Oclusion Slot und so weiter... Aber unter VrayALSurface sehe ich tatsächlich nur als hauptsächlichen Parameter SSS Funktionen. Diffuse und Relection ist auch dabei.. Unter Textures ganz untern sehe ich war Relf2 roughness, aber hauptsächlich nur SSS Funktionen. Wie möchte man denn ohne eine Specular, oder Roughness Map ein realistisches Gesicht machen? Kann doch nicht sein, dass wir nur eine Diffuse map UND SSS brauchen. LIebe Grüße

Great explanation. Thank You.

Thank you do much! If you don't mind could i ask you if it's possible to use sss with diffuse texture when I try it just everything the subsurface color.

excellent tutorial dude!

can you make a tutorials regarding vray 5 shader which includes SSS plz

jo danke dir :)

Subbed. Could you maybe do a tutorial on how you approach shading the head with the maps?

Hi. Can you update this tutorial for the new vray 5 update 1.2? It outdated so fast... :(

Very informative but you never actually show how you hook up the maps, set the bump values, mask micronormals or roughness, set bitmap colorspace etc... Infact, the only time you see a realistic human is in the intro. This is not a realistic skin tutorial, this is a general subsurface scatter tutorial that touches very little on realistic human skin.