Here’s my newest model of Leonard & Edgar.
Almost a year ago I made a quick sculpt of Sir Edgar Allan Paw and I thought it would be great to reunite him with his friend, the young scientist and inventor, Leonard Lowell
Thank you!
Basicly I rendered it all in Cycles but together with a bunch of Renderlayers and Passes like different lights, shadows, AO and so on.
Then I adjusted the render in Photoshop by adding seperately rendered lights, adjusting the contrast, colors and mood. Then I painted some details like the particles, glow and steam. So there was a lot of composition done in photoshop but apart from some little shadows and rimlight, I didn’t paint over the characters.
Thanks! Basically made a simple soft, plastic like shader and rendered multiple passes like shadeless color, diffuse direct, AO, shadows and so on and stitched them back together in Photoshop. That way I have more control over the shading and renderstyle even after it was rendered I also adjusted the contrast and color of the passes separately as layers and was able to mask out areas that I didn’t like (for example glossy areas and shadows).
I also painted the glow, steam and particles on the test tubes but tried not to paint over the characters (except for some shadows and some small fixes).
Glad that you like it 
