/3/ - 3DCG

Did a few more hours on the Joker. Decided to take a chance and projection polypaint the hair as diffuse only instead of using fibermesh and the arnold hair shader and it worked out and looks better. Turns out that the previous polypaint that I had been exporting out as vertex colors and rendering in arnold wasn't in the correct color space and wasnt playing nice with ACES. Fixed that. Now I'm using the spotlight projected texture in conjunction with arnold sss - all in the right colorspace now. I asked myself if projection painting from your reference onto your model is cheating and i dont think it is at this stage because i just use it to get the proportions correct and as a placeholder. Glad I didnt give up, I learned so much about proper workflow