A project I did for a final in my photoshop class. The dragon was posed in daz studio, then exported as an object. I opened him up in Vue 11, shaped 2 mountains around him and adding a lake beneath him. I created and placed the materials and had lots of fun mixing the materials together. Then I created the ecosystem (7000+ trees). The end result had 650 million polygons and took 4 hours to render.

In photoshop, I added the blur with a lens blur, played with several adjustment layers, and added the mist. The mist is the Render -> Clouds filter with lots of erasing.

It did get an 'A' on the project, but I hope to improve the concept in the future.