Silverwing Training: Subsurface Scattering in Octane

A detailed overview of the things to keep in mind when using SSS with Octane.

0:00 Introduction
1:00 What is SSS / Absorption
3:50 Analogy how to work with SSS in Octane
6:40 Preparing SSS in C4D Octane
13:00 Color in SSS
21:20 (Bitmap) Texturing SSS
24:30 Don´t forget your surface shading (even with SSS)
26:25 Closing thoughts

I hope you enjoy!

[cobaltBlu]

Wunderbar. The best octane SSS tutorial I have seen. The only surprise I have run into after this tutorial was how diffuse and GI clamp kernel settings have a big impact in the results depending on how much HDRI vs direct lighting is used. Thank you very much.

[chillsoft]

I understood nothing of the SSS workflow, but you just beautifully explained every aspect - and in such a good maner as well! Thank you so much for taking your time to make this!!

[pixelasm]

welcome back raphael and thanks for sharing your tipps and background info on SSS

[gillesker]

Super useful. Really interesting to simplify the whole process, thanks.

[beMOTIONdESIGN]

This has to be the best explanation for SSS in Octane that I've seen! Thank you for this!

[MichaelTilson]

Outstanding presentation. Thank you for sharing the insight.

[delizade]

Perfect explaination about the topic. Thank you.

[cemgulpunk]

now 2021 it's still very informative happy new year.

[Akrafes]

Aside from really very wel explained concept. I have to give it up for the really really great hdr man. Bravo. I want that HDR. I want that as a default surface for every and all of my workflows.

[fabricated.memories]

Raphael you are the man! I am watching this I think 3th time. very well explained

[sikliztailbunch]

Meanwhile you can actually color the individual volumetric areas by creating an additional fog volume with the volume builder. Then you can for example use a noise to color the volume additionally to the subsurface material of the original object or even use fields to create custom fog volumes.

[botondben]

Lot of valuable information here. Thanks for the tut!
I wonder how my size of the scene influence the sss behaviour. I had issues when my scene was 1:1 scale to real life like a 2m marble statue and the sss didn't work well. While I was scale the scene up to like 10 times larger than real world (like a 20m statue) the sss worked nicely on my marble material.
why is that and how to handle theese situations when I would like to stay in real world scale and have a nice sss at the same time?
Thanks a lot! <3

[byninjafx]

Wow ein Tutorial von dir. Das kann ja nur gut werden. Bist du dieses Jahr wieder bei der IBC für Maxon?

[simontrickfilmer]

I wish a Training about "Image Color Profile" and "Tonemap Type". My renderings looks alwys different in Photoshop.