This is an homage to both the steampunk aesthetic and Jules Verne. Victorian Sci-Fi is cool! This was also an experiment. I wanted to see if I could - from start to finish - convincingly create then combine a practically shot subject and a 3D background or environment.
Environment was modeled in Blender (2.69) and rendered in Cycles (~48 hours to render!). Costumery Designed and Modeled by Enchanted Designs' Katie Kaufman. Katie was photographed practically and then composited into the scene with Photoshop CC.
Additional modeling by Paul Kotelevets, user 1Dinc on blendswap (baroque furniture).
