Thread by @LeonAquitaine

Preset Showcase: Maya Purple Cocoon

We just talked about posing dark-skinned characters. So let's use the opportunity to talk about Maya's Skintones subset from the Purple Cocoon collection, created with these tones in mind!

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@MayaPurrrple Maya Purple Cocoon is part of the default GShade collection: You can find it under gshade-presets.

@MayaPurrrple The presets are implemented in two subgroups. Obsidian is focused on skin tones with some color component to it, while Shungite is geared towards pure grey skin tones. This example shows the Warm preset variants:

@MayaPurrrple Both use LUTs to bring the correspondent skin tones to the surface, making it really easy to set light sources up. To me that means less time fiddling around with overlapping light sources.

@MayaPurrrple Warm, specifically, have great contrast - excellent for strong rim lights.

@MayaPurrrple If you have a dark-skinned character, give it a try. I think you'll be surprised at how well it'll work with minimal setup!

@MayaPurrrple Thanks, Maya (@MayaPurrrple) for giving me permission to talk about it! You can find more information about her work at the following links:

ko-fi.com/mayapurple

For more showcase images from the Shungite subset, check this link:
imgur.com/gallery/b5bxsT6

And for Obsidian, this one:
imgur.com/gallery/lxc6Lwu