I've done this Picture as birthday gift for a special person (who likes raptors )

I created the base meshs in Softimage|XSI and refined and textured them in ZBrush. I used shemes of a raptors skeleton to get the right proportions. Rendering of the foreground was done in XSI. The Background is created and rendered with Vue 5.
Compositing and some matte painting (including the grass) was then done in Photoshop.
I like the overal result of this piece - although i think the raptors skin needs some more work.

I've never done a complete still scene that complex before - so critique would be verry appreciated!

And since there is still some time left i hope to be able, in respect of your critiques, to improve my image til it gets printed.


Thanks!