Shantae - (Smash Ultimate Render)

The half genie Shantae, pretty cute. Commissioned for a character portrait for Smash Brothers Ultimate mod. The mod ports Shantae over Zelda. Model itself is credited to Rafaknight, who made a rather good looking Shantae model that isn't in 2D and still faithful to her original design.

It was made in blender, so the hard part was taking Shantae from blender into 3DS Max, and re-rigging her up with Cat Rigigng. Her facial morphs couldnt properly port over without some issues that I for some reason, could not fix. But, since it was just a one time render, if I decide to do anythign with her again, i'll port over the morphs properly for full range of expressions.

Of course, thanks to her simplistic design, and a model already geared for subdivision, using turbosmooth/subdivision was no issue, so I spent more time custom making materials for that clothing of hers and metals. I made sure her skin was clean and pretty in the SSS Shader, though I am not to sure if the "SSS" part is showing through, at all. But it looks far better than usual.