No.5: Eliot

Hm... getting so lazy I couldn't even be bothered to respond to the note with respect to this request.... Sounded simple enough and I have Eliot in the Model Library, plus an appropriate setting. Interesting enough to get started on it as I prepare for that long awaited hospital appointment.
Philosophoholic163': You do realise they'll have missed everything you've written about this, right? I mean, the other times you mentioning this won't be see for about half a year.
Yeah, but it's not as if anyone actually reads this stuff anyway.
Philsophoholic163': Well, it is timey-wimey too.
Yeah....

So... topless Eliot for those interested.  My main concern was whether I can avoid the rendering issues in No.3b with Hitomi and with (Re)Introducing Christie (Cos053) with all the... 'fireflies'. This I find is the issue with interior settings which I think is to do with light paths when rendering. As such, I took this on as a technical exercise as much as anything. I used it to test out the new node set up for settings for transparency so I can get camera angles like this. My original conception for No.3a was this angle, but the wall blocked the camera angle. In this, the outside of the wall is transparent but it does mean the light source has to pass through a mesh first which is probably what attributed to the fireflies in the Rendered viewport. I suppose hiding the wall mesh is still the easiest method.

As for the pose? Minor custom tinkering with an elDM pose and yep, the interesting bits are hidden.  Originally I was going to find a pillow so it looked like Eliot was asleep. As it is it looks like a perfume advert.... I think DarkSun64 did something like that with Eliot. Also decided to have a little fun with the general idea which is why I went through with it. I think you can see what I mean.  Though it could look like something else.  

Still not keen on releasing things out of sequence, but the wait for this would seem a bit excessive even by my standards if I stuck rigidly to chronological order. I estimate that to be July/August 2018. Yep, my Sta.sh backlog is rather plentiful to get me through inactive periods - like the current one.

Information:
General methodology for setting up a render

Credits:
Ayane model courtesy of XPS-Fanatic
Eliot model courtesy of FallingAlyx
Setting model courtesy of deexie
Eliot pose by elDM (RockHowardMX has reupped the poses for those interested)
Node set ups:
Basic node set up courtesy of DragonLord720
Cloth node set up by DragonLord720 (But... they're not wearing anything!)
Eye node set up by Hypster83
Skin node set up by Hiddenus
Tools: 
Blender 2.79
XNALara Posing Studio 11.8
Assets/Copyright:
Koei Tecmo - Ayane, Eliot
Illusion - setting

Render time: 3h 59m
Resolution: 1920x1080
Sampling: 4096
Other info: N/A

Date of completion: Set up - 11th February 2018; Render - 12th February 2018