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Step 13: Big Robot!

- Base lighting
- Tighter highlights.
- Dodging and levels adjust because the lighting contrast wasn't strong enough.
- Missiles!

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Step 13: Soldiers

- Base lighting
- Then brighter defining highlights to call attention to brighter or more important areas.
- Secondary high-contrast back-lighting to separate the fore figure from the background.

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Step 12: skin and hair/secondary light
In an effort to condense things, I'll lump the screen shots into steps. I'll render the skin in several stages.

- Base lighting
- Then brighter defining highlights to call attention to brighter or more important areas.
- Secondary high-contrast back-lighting to separate the fore figure from the background.
- Colorize the line art in the necessary areas.
- Carry the back lighting through into the other items of clothing and do the smaller elements.

Next... background troopers!

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Step 7-11: primary figures
Moving away from the background for now,  Beginning the rendering on the primary figure(s) to give myself a better idea of where I'm going on the piece as a whole.

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Step 6: Background
Trying to create a general sense of movement with the background.

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Base colors

Step 5: Base colors
Flat colors are adjusted to reflect the darker tones of what I plan the final render to be. The background is roughed in.

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Flat colors

Step 4: Flat colors
Colors are added to assist the colorist in separating the major elements of the artwork.