Dragon Tree

Final image, painting over textures and separating the layers making the colors more harmonious and fit the scene/skylight.

added some background assets, using the tree stump from quixel. I used a bend modifier on them and adjusted the texture colors, they make do for a cool background silhouette. Used simple planes to block the sunlight and to emphasize the focal area.

decided on only one tower and used some assets from quixel to fill in the scene, going from big>small. Not more then 5 assets were used, since the rest i will be painting later or introduced too much detail.

imported the model from 3dcoat. I was not comfortable with 3D coat enough to introduce extra detail and decided that building was okay enough for the scene thanks to textures. Was playing a lot with different scenes. Lighted the scene using a HDRI.

feeling out the scale of building in blender.

general design specifications of the building, inspired by the Angkor wat reference picture.

reference picture. I liked the idea with a tree growing on top, and wanted to make a scene with that idea as focus point.