And here is the Mental Ray SSS for the body of the BMP (Fig.29).
Fig.29
During the creation of the work, I decided to replace the rock with a new one to make more of an artistic impression, more like a small floating island. Once I’d arranged the renders of the final image and saved it as a .tiff file, I was then able to work from the alphas (Fig.30).
Fig.30
And so, the work was continued in Photoshop until I achieved the final image (Fig.31 – 33).