When a lightbeam hits your skin it basicaly does two things. Some of it reflect and some of it scatter beneath the surface. Have you ever tried to hold your hand in front of a light? It's glowing red, because some of the light passes through it. Ears are pretty thin compared to a hand, and have a lot of blood flowing through them, therefore you'll be able to see the effect if you take a light and put it behind someones ear. It becomes translucent, with a red glow, especially at the thinnest parts. To spare your surroundings for the light test, look at the ear that I've rendered. Do you see the light passing through?

There are many ways to simulate that. One of the buzz words in 3D is called Sub Surface Scattering. It does exactly that. Scatters light under the surface. In poser it's called Fastscatter, and it's not true Sub Surface Scattering, but it does the job, and as the name implies it's fast :)

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Cartoon render with IBL is possible. Let's see exactly how.

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Some tips on using and making Poser characters, mostly about using them in other applications :)

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Setting up IDLE for Poser7.

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Yet another realistic skin technique for Poser 6+.

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Not everyone has the supercomputer they dream of using for their renders; This is frustrating, and if you have an old machine limping along and whining any time you try to render an image you learn that the fewer images you load into Poser the better it runs.

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How to make a MAT Pose file in Poser.

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Dynamic Clothing tutorial for Poser 5 or up.

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This is a plant with transmapped foliage. One Light, Depth Mapped Shadows. See how there are dark spots where the back of the transmapped planes are facing towards the camera?

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Stage one will show you how to make the weird little models for this and stage two will show you how to set a render up in Poser.
We are going to walk you through the basics of making a nano-object, you can explore it further on your own.

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