Making Of... (Beaten up by Teenage girls)

Hi there dear followers...

Today I just wanted to show you in 4 little Images, how I create my work. As an example I used one image of the story I'm actually working on again. "Beaten up by Teenage Girls"

Of all my stories, this one has the most complex scene and unfortunately it takes the most render time. By the way, it's my first real story I ever started and I'm sure that I made some mistakes while creating the scene and edit some of the settings. Whatever it is...I still don't know how to fix it...But enough talking, here are the images.

First:

After creating the main scene, I start to render the characters only. The reason is, because the more elements have to be rendered at the same time, the longer the rendering takes. The characters are the most important part so I want them to be in the best possible quality. The rendering of this image took me 4 hours. It even would have taken longer but i have a maximum render time of 4 hours in my settings.

Second:

Then I just rendered the background...(I forgot to remove the foot :D). For this rendering I used a lower resolution and i stopped it after 15 minutes. After such a short time of rendering there is high image noise but that doesn't matter, because the background got some gaussian blur. This doesn't work with all backgrounds. If there is a scene that is not so close up to the characters, I can't blur the background, so I need to render this longer,...mostly something about 1-2 hours.

Third:

Well, not much to say about this image. I put both, characters and background together.

Fourth:

Now, this is the most important part (for me). I want the images to look more realistic, so I play a little bit with contrast, light and motion blur effects.

Five:

And finally, some effects. Blood, Swing effects, spit and whatever. Thats what I add at the end...well ok, there is something else that I add in stories...Speech bubbles :)

The complete postwork in photoshop after the rendering takes me something about 10-60 Minutes. It really depends on what kind of image I am working on. The postwork on this image took me 15-20 minutes.

Would you like me to post more Making Of stuff?

btw...I hope you like the image ;)