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I've been doing a lot of outlining for my book, and have been wanting to render scenes with my characters. I enjoy rendering scenes with this particular character. Don't worry, the book's enchanted. The pages won't burn.

I had to do a lot of touching up. The original picture was far too dark. I jumped between Photoshop, Flame Painter, and Pixeluvo to get the desired effects. The flame in his hand started as a sphere with emissions applied. To edit it out, I re-rendered the image minus the orb and then edited the empty space above his hand into the picture. Then I realized the light reflecting on his face was much too red and had to re-render him with the color of the emission adjusted (I tried editing it in PS but I kept changing the hair color and finally decided to just re-render). Then I edited that into the picture. It's not unusual for me to make a lot of mistakes!

Giving the wraith a faded look took a little more work than I had hoped. Unfortunately, I had merged layers at some point and had to perform some trickery to make her more ghost-like. I had to render the figures and the environment separately, due to the sheer size of the file. Thankfully, I still had the PNG files and copied the wall into the picture.

The render time was reasonable once I started rendering separately. Whenever I had her cloak enabled, the render would take forever. I added in an extra emission and suddenly it started using the CPU. That's when I decided I'd just play with layers in PS. Took about 45 minutes to render everything completely (environment took a wee bit longer) and probably 7-9 hours to finish the piece completely.

Software used: Daz Studio 4.12 Pro, Flame Painter 4, Photoshop CS2, Pixeluvo
GPU: RTX 2060
Logitech G600 Mouse, Wacom Bamboo CTH470

Description
I've been doing a lot of outlining for my book, and have been wanting to render scenes with my characters. I enjoy rendering scenes with this particular character. Don't worry, the book's enchanted. The pages won't burn.

I had to do a lot of touching up. The original picture was far too dark. I jumped between Photoshop, Flame Painter, and Pixeluvo to get the desired effects. The flame in his hand started as a sphere with emissions applied. To edit it out, I re-rendered the image minus the orb and then edited the empty space above his hand into the picture. Then I realized the light reflecting on his face was much too red and had to re-render him with the color of the emission adjusted (I tried editing it in PS but I kept changing the hair color and finally decided to just re-render). Then I edited that into the picture. It's not unusual for me to make a lot of mistakes!

Giving the wraith a faded look took a little more work than I had hoped. Unfortunately, I had merged layers at some point and had to perform some trickery to make her more ghost-like. I had to render the figures and the environment separately, due to the sheer size of the file. Thankfully, I still had the PNG files and copied the wall into the picture.

The render time was reasonable once I started rendering separately. Whenever I had her cloak enabled, the render would take forever. I added in an extra emission and suddenly it started using the CPU. That's when I decided I'd just play with layers in PS. Took about 45 minutes to render everything completely (environment took a wee bit longer) and probably 7-9 hours to finish the piece completely.

Software used: Daz Studio 4.12 Pro, Flame Painter 4, Photoshop CS2, Pixeluvo
GPU: RTX 2060
Logitech G600 Mouse, Wacom Bamboo CTH470