This is the image I have used for the background. I am addicted to mountain biking, pic taken by my friend with sony R1 during one of our rides. I loved the foggy after rain atmosphere, so I removed myself and made space for Dinosaur.
Took some photos containing fern out of my personal library ( I am addicted to photography as well). Later in process, I have “rotoscoped” ferns, so they fit nicely into final comp.
After exporting 5 different matCap material renders of Dinosaur to Photoshop, I started arranging blending effects throughout these five aligned images, until achieving desired look for further work.
To get the acceptable final output I just played with the blending modes. I don’t have any specific rules that I follow. You just play with it, changing them through layers and blending modes until you get what you want. So, tomorrow if I want to make another dinosaur, I guess I am going to use completely different pattern in blending order.
After having base done, I am duplicating this layer from which I paint spots and stripes on the animal to make it look more natural. I avoided the clean look because I wanted to make it look somewhat discreet, but at the same time vibrant.. Also, have learned from my pet, bearded dragon that some reptiles tend to change colors depending on how they feel (happy/angry) or the outside factor like health, humidity or cold. So, the fun factor was to imagine this dinosaur having number of color outfits.
This is the pow render, to clear how model looks from different angles.
For the final pose I have tilted the model slightly upwards, because that angle looked better then the plain one.
After removing myself out of the equation, the background was ready for adding the elements I’ve started with dinosaur, then two layers of fern reason I did two layers is, because later, I added layer of shadows and second layer of painted evaporations and fog.
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