So this was the original idea that went wrong and ended up in my previous post, "Mind Underneath". It was supposed to be much more curvy and squiggly!

The node system of this one is basically the one from before, except that the one thing that went rogue in the other one is corrected here. I wanted to have some form of curvy fiery spiky pointy things crawling on the surface of the bust model, with a mixed up cyber-organic vibe going on.

Because of the subsurface translucency, the render took a whole night + morning, and the compositing also wasn't the fastest process. I figured that, if the previous one has a cold/bluish/silver vibe going, I should go for a hot/orangish/gold vibe for the sake of it.

Here's a little close-up of how many curves there are in that mess of a thing!

I hope you enjoy it, I had loads of fun making these little experiments, I'm not sure if I'll make more following the same concept/idea, I don't want to fall into the NFT pattern of using the same model 500 times in 500 barely different ways just for the sake of creating and publishing something, so I might do something different now.

Thanks for supporting art and stuff on Hive/PeakD/and all!