Making of DAWN,The Dinotaur - [Page 3]

::POSING,LIGHTING,RENDERING::

I wanted to convey the emotion of a warrior thinking about his battles...and it was hard. I had to go through many poses before I finally settled for this one.I've used the same pose in both the composites.
For the lighting,I've used 3 Vray lights[for the Key,Bounce and Rim lights]. My friends Dan and Jignesh really helped me get a better idea about lighting a scene.
The renders were made with the "Medium" setting of VRay's Irradiance Map,everything else was at defaults.

::COMPOSTING::

I wanted a Blizzard-esque feel for my final scenes. The first background was my first attempt at making a matte and the 2nd background is an actual photograph taken by Allan aka deviantanonymous from Deviantart.
The postprocess basically involved some hue shifts and quite a bit of touchups in photoshop. When I've made the blue toned variation [it was inspired by 300] I really liked it as it conveyed the mood I hoped to get for a final render. And that was when I called it done.

::FINAL RENDERS::

This pretty much ends this "Making of" of my Dawn. This is my very first anatomy study and also my first ever character design. I wish to thank all my friends and members of TWEAK!,Mudbox and CGTalk Forums for their feedback and support.

Thanks for checking this out,I hope you liked my Dinotaur and find this document helpful in someway.

- Sri Ram Chandra , http://www.sriramatrix.com/

::LINKS::

Kolby Jukes the person who inspired me to start on this character.

Background from my first composite is a photograph taken by Allan AKA deviantanonymous from Deviantart.

Vray Skin Shader based on Marc Mordlet's shader.

Mr.Dan Hecht,Mr.Giovanni Nakpil , Heber Alvarado and my Guru Jeremey Smith for their wonderful tips and inspirational artwork.

References : Aaron St Goddard's Minotaur,T-Rex Sculpt,The Sculptor's Corner

DVDs that helped me on my way : Sub-D Creature Modeling - By Dominic Qwek,Digital Sculpting: Human Anatomy - By Zack Petroc,Drawing Dinosaurs: Anatomy and Sketching - By David KRENTZ.