Latest photo-realism. Worked on and off for about 6 months! The hair took soooooo long.



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OMG, fantastic work!
The hair is amazing Also really nice blending of the skin colors. Did you have much trouble with slowdowns or crashes?
Wow, very well done

Amazing, indeed.
Compliments for the excellent work.

brynn wrote:OMG, fantastic work!
The hair is amazing Also really nice blending of the skin colors. Did you have much trouble with slowdowns or crashes?
Wow, very well done

Thank you, Brynn, you're always too kind! The filters tend to slow Inkscape down quite a bit. The skin blending is all the blur filter. If I hid those layers, it wasn't very slow at all. Near the end of the project I discovered the feature that lets you view with filters off (I feel dumb because I knew it was there, but I forgot about it), so I used that quite a bit at the end. With filters off, it was pretty darn fast! Also, for the hair I didn't use the tool (like I used to), I used the tool, so each piece/strand of hair was only a few nodes. On previous projects I've used the tool, and unless you simplify your paths, you end up with hundreds of nodes per strand of hair. And props to the Inkscape team because on latest release I haven't experienced a single crash!

Congrats for the effort. I love making realistic stuff so i know how time consuming they are.
Hoping to see more in the future.

Great looking job, blending is outstanding. I don't have the patience for a project like this.