Well, to say the least, she is finally done!

I have spent quite a few hours just learning while working on this piece. For example, the character, Caitlyn, is custom skinned from a couple of different merchant resources (please don't ask me to remember which ones I used!).


The outfit itself was quite a challenge, as it consists of the pieces of 4 different outfits, all carefully merged together. Of course this required me to learn to make and use transmaps... well, it was fun.

The final lesson I learned was how to use lighting and shaders. To this point, I have not done much with backgrounds or other effects on my finished image... so getting everything into Photoshop and then making it all mesh together just right... took some time.

But, in the end, I learned a lot, and am overly pleased with how it came out!

I will probably be doing a basic "front" and "back" render in the future, so everyone can get a good idea of what the outfit looks like, and get a better view of the face.

Also, there are a few different renders that I moved into my scraps section that are a progression of this final image.


For those interested, here is a list of items I used to create this image (not all are included, as stated above, I used a ton of different merchant resources to get the skin "just so")....

Rendering Software: DAZ Studio 2.0 [link]

Base Figure: Victoria 4 (from DAZ3d) [link]

Top: The BodyStrap (by awax) [link]

Pants: AO4: All Night for V4 (by outoftouch & _Al3d_) [link]

Boots: Long Boot for Victoria 4 (by harry-cn) [link]

Gloves: Long Gloves for V4 (by AdamThwaites) [link]

Hair: Sylphiad Hair (DAZ3D) [link]

Sky Background: Majestic Skies MEGAPACK (by saiyan) [link]

Phoenix: "Phoenix" Stock Photo from Big Stock Photo [link]
I pulled apart the image into different layers, applied layer styles, and came out with the fiery/semi translucent effect.