Waiting for Santa

The idea for this one just sorta popped out of nowhere while I was just playing around in Poser. I started by just adding the tree (with digiPixel’s awesome addon textures called “Tales for the Christmas Tree”) to a white room set and then this scene came together just one additional element at a time. I was going to add a Santa Claus figure looking in the window at the kid but I’ve been watching too much Investigation Discovery and it looked way too creepy. LOL

The PJs on the kid are dynamic cloth (a set by Tipol) and I thankfully just a couple days ago learned how to have more than one dynamic cloth object in a single scene so yay. The snow on the window is actually a flat one sided plane prop behind the window that I created a “frost” transparency map for then rendered it as white. That turned out better than I had hoped. I used Colm’s HDR lights for Render Studio 2014 as my light setup. I then took the scene into Photoshop for several adjustments and the addition of Santa on his sleigh in the window.

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