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A friend invited me at her dance training session. There I saw someone I thought was only a fictionnal character. I saw her friend too. Luckily, I had my camera with me, and they kindly allowed me to take a photograph of them. So now there's a proof she really exists !

This picture is a fan art of 's fascinating character Ruth .

Just a few words of explanation, for those who don't know her: though she doesn't appear to have a head, the most important part of it, her brain (and a large part of her cranium) is still there, relocated at the top of her chest, so this is not pure fantasy. More details on the first picture jerek-uk made of Ruth here: Reduction only makes things stronger , on the caption and on the comments below.

A consequence of having no "external" head is that the only sense she has left is the touch.

Ruth is a ballet dancer. She was before she undergo those particularly extreme surgical operations (it's her on the poster near the woman in red), and she still is. I strongly recommend you go to Jerek's Ruth gallery to see and read the wonderful artwork and the stories he made about her. Ruth's transformation will soon no longer seem so totally unbelievable to you, and she will even appear very much alive. You'll even find an x-ray of her here .

A bit more explanations in my journal .

I've also written a little story to accompany the picture here .

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Making of ...

What I used :
- As always, Daz Carrara
- Render engine is Octane
- The dance studio is … “Dance studio” from Daz3d, heavily modified (I completely remade the wall with the windows and changed a lot of the shaders (except the floor) plus a few other things).
- The blond dancer in the background is a V4, the others are based on the genesis 2 model: V6 for Ruth, Kami is “Serena”.
- Outfits are ”Dance Studio Gear” by Predatron & Diane for the V4 and “Leather Body for Genesis 2 Female(s)" by OOT on Renderosity + x7 Materials For G2F Leather Body by x7 (Ruth only) (with modifications), from Renderosity.

I experimented quite a few new techniques on this picture (which explains, in part, why it took me so long ):
- New base model (genesis 2 (V6) instead of V4)
- To make the “surgery”, I previously used magnets (which I didn't even make). This time I edited directly the 3d mesh of the model (Carrara allows me to do that without breaking the rigging). In fact I almost literally cut and sew the skin (well, delete and weld parts of the mesh). But of course with real surgery there is a lot more than the skin to take care of .
- 3D painting/texture editing, to make the scars. I must confess I'm not very pleased with the result, but, well, it was a first so … That explains why they are different from the original. And they are at rather different place, but I had to make them where the “sutures” were… and it wasn't easy to make these at the same place.
- Volumetric lighting (the sun rays).

Description
A friend invited me at her dance training session. There I saw someone I thought was only a fictionnal character. I saw her friend too. Luckily, I had my camera with me, and they kindly allowed me to take a photograph of them. So now there's a proof she really exists !

This picture is a fan art of 's fascinating character Ruth .

Just a few words of explanation, for those who don't know her: though she doesn't appear to have a head, the most important part of it, her brain (and a large part of her cranium) is still there, relocated at the top of her chest, so this is not pure fantasy. More details on the first picture jerek-uk made of Ruth here: Reduction only makes things stronger , on the caption and on the comments below.

A consequence of having no "external" head is that the only sense she has left is the touch.

Ruth is a ballet dancer. She was before she undergo those particularly extreme surgical operations (it's her on the poster near the woman in red), and she still is. I strongly recommend you go to Jerek's Ruth gallery to see and read the wonderful artwork and the stories he made about her. Ruth's transformation will soon no longer seem so totally unbelievable to you, and she will even appear very much alive. You'll even find an x-ray of her here .

A bit more explanations in my journal .

I've also written a little story to accompany the picture here .

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Making of ...

What I used :
- As always, Daz Carrara
- Render engine is Octane
- The dance studio is … “Dance studio” from Daz3d, heavily modified (I completely remade the wall with the windows and changed a lot of the shaders (except the floor) plus a few other things).
- The blond dancer in the background is a V4, the others are based on the genesis 2 model: V6 for Ruth, Kami is “Serena”.
- Outfits are ”Dance Studio Gear” by Predatron & Diane for the V4 and “Leather Body for Genesis 2 Female(s)" by OOT on Renderosity + x7 Materials For G2F Leather Body by x7 (Ruth only) (with modifications), from Renderosity.

I experimented quite a few new techniques on this picture (which explains, in part, why it took me so long ):
- New base model (genesis 2 (V6) instead of V4)
- To make the “surgery”, I previously used magnets (which I didn't even make). This time I edited directly the 3d mesh of the model (Carrara allows me to do that without breaking the rigging). In fact I almost literally cut and sew the skin (well, delete and weld parts of the mesh). But of course with real surgery there is a lot more than the skin to take care of .
- 3D painting/texture editing, to make the scars. I must confess I'm not very pleased with the result, but, well, it was a first so … That explains why they are different from the original. And they are at rather different place, but I had to make them where the “sutures” were… and it wasn't easy to make these at the same place.
- Volumetric lighting (the sun rays).