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The goal of my capstone originally was to create an animation, but due to not really having that much free time I had to settle for turning the scene into a still instead. For this image I took a lot more time looking at inspirational image to really get a good look at what I wanted to do. I started looking at references for churches mostly to find a setup that I would actually like. I ended up settling down with something involving God Rays flooding the room to create heavy contrast. After the basic composition was blocked out I started to spend a lot more time on the characters that I would have in the scene. To create the character standing in the center I used a common technique where you sculpt the model using dynamic topology. Afterwards I went ahead retopologized the model so she could actually be used for texturing/shading/posing. After I was satisfied with the main character I went back to the scene and detailed that to an extent that made me happy. Something different I did for this scene though was composite the scene the nuke rather than in Blender. So I had to learn my way around Nuke to do proper color grading and fx for the image. After the composite was done in nuke I made slight changes in Krita for the final image.

Annotated Bibliography

Creating an annotated bibliography is a little weird for this but all of these were used for the same reason. All these sources provided references/textures/software that I was using to create this piece. Pixabay and textures.com were used for textures I used in the image. 3d artist, pixabay, blendernation, and blender artists were used for references. Lastly Nuke, and Blender.org, as well as krita were the sites i got the software from.

"3D Artist." 3D Artist. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Daily Blender 3D Updates." BlenderNation. BlenderNation, 23 Mar. 2017. Web. 18 May 2017.

Foundation, Blender. "Blender.org." Blender.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

Foundation, Krita. Krita | Digital Painting. Creative Freedom. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Free High Quality Images." Free Images - Pixabay. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Home." Nuke, NukeX & Nuke Studio | VFX Software | Foundry. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop!" Textures.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"THE COOKIE NETWORK." Blender Artists. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.