I did not render a reflection pass or Z-depth, just the image itself to paint over.

I then bring all the renders into Photoshop and get my layers organized. If you need to select window panes then you can just make all the glass in the scene have an ID and that’ll save you selecting each piece of glass later. Material IDs can be useful with glass for example. I also made sure to render out an object ID pass, as well as a materials ID pass, so I could select things more easily in Photoshop. This is one of those many times where you have to make the call between 2D and 3D and it usually comes down to how long you have. It’s really not necessary as snow can just be painted, but seeing as it was already in the scene and I liked it, I just wanted to let the 3D do all that for me. I then turned the displacement back on and rendered the snow in pieces. I turned off the displacement and left it to render for about 15 hours. Also the fog would really cane the render time so I had to scale back. I had originally wanted to go to 6k but because of the displacement, and because my scene wasn’t 100% set up to render efficiently, it caused my whole PC to crash. I rendered the final image at 4,500 pixels. The main hurdles are largely out of the way, with the exception of detailing out Scrooge himself, so for the most part we can relax and enjoy watching it come together. Once again, we need to keep referring back to our initial goals and make sure we’re staying on course. This is where the piece can really come to life. we’re into the final phase of the project.

For those who wanted to know my hardware configuration: MacPro, 4 core, 11 Gigs ram running a 30', 23' and Wacom tablet.and yes I render in layers or section to complete these as a final 14x40 inch 300 dpi file when needed. If you would like to know more about my efforts, please visit my website, another effort I am learning to do in my retirement, as I fall asleep over many manuals. My portrait work is based around Photo, Vue, and Painter. I use Modo, PoserPro, ZBrush, Vue 11 Inf, Painter, and Photoshop in my workflow. My website displays and offer services for those who want period based portraits of themselves. My oldest son, a university professor teaching animation and modeling, pushes me to keep learning to stay sharp.

involved in the development of architectural CAD, who had a secret desire to be an artist. wish it was true, no like the rest of you it take a lot of time. A few people think I'm pumping these out. I am just starting to post work I have done over the past few years. These horizontals are 14x40 inch canvas giclee prints that I do in my home studio.

Prepping daz models for modo