The tree cave, mysterious in it's manner on being, disguised as an earthly entity, the presence of an evil power lurks in the cave of the tree

-I spent way too long on this piece and I figure I might as well explain the steps I take to make a piece like this....
1. I find most of the stocks I use...I have a general idea....then I have the BG in this case it was jus some ruins and grass
2. Then i render all my stocks...wut does that mean....I cut them out from their backgrounds
3. Then I do the lighting and shadows and darkening for each piece, this can take quite a long time as the size and angle and direction of the shadow matters...
4. At this point i had a version one where everything looked realistic but it was somewhat boring and didn't look too scary....to those without experience it looked just like a photo "erm what did you do?" and all photo mannipers love that criticism.
5. I then got a few suggestions and added the reaper with all the rendering, lighting, and shadowing and added some fog as well....added a few adjustments to the previous ones i alrdy had and BAM!

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-MadMaven/T.S.Heisele@sxc.hu
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