Post-Production

The environment was created in Photoshop. I started with some colorized clouds and used the same pattern on the clothes as the pattern in the background. I added the main lighting from above by painting it in with white and using a bit if blur over the strokes (Fig.22 – 23). I rendered a depth pass to create a very subtle lens blur, nothing too extreme but it made a big difference when appreciated at full resolution. As final touches I added some sparks, dust, bubbles and some fog textures to complete the ambiguous environment I was looking for. All the 2D elements used the depth pass as a mask for better integration with the 3D render (Fig.24 – 25). Finally I did some little adjustments to the saturation and color (Fig.26).