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How digital artists make skin look real
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If you just paint a 3D model a human tone, they instantly look like a terrifying mannequin. Real skin actually lets light violently bounce around beneath the surface before bouncing back out. Subsurface scattering forcefully simulates this internal glowing effect, requiring heavy math to figure out exactly how pink the cartilage in a digital ear should look when a harsh digital sun shines directly behind it.
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