Been awhile since my last render, too long I must admit. Yet, I decided to fire up blender, take a simple concept and make something out of it. Originally a boring archviz render changed to a not-so-cozy raven bathing in a sleet, hence the title.
From technical standpoint, the wet metal material was a challenge of its own. Otherwise the scene is quite simple. The whole thing took 2 days to complete, about 40 minutes to render (only 100 samples btw).
nice picture! My only remark is that the the sky is maybe a bit to bright to explain the sleet. The clouds have quite a nice shape BTW, are they an image or procedural?