Because of using mental ray, I choose mr Prim for the hair in Environment and Effects. This way I was able to get the best effect regardless of the rendering quality or speed (Fig.37).

Rendering

Once I'd finished with all the settings, the next step was the final render. My rendering size was 3200 x 2400 and I rendered hair, AO, ZDepth, SSS mate, Diffuse Color and ObjectID passes (Fig.38).

Compositing

I used Photoshop and After Effects for compositing; Photoshop for rough results and After Effects for the details. I used photos for the background and some plants were rendered in 3ds Max (Fig.39).


I imported the image into Photoshop and adjusted some of the levels like color, contrast, saturation and hue etc (Fig.40 – 41) to make the image match the original painting more closely.