Quote Originally Posted by Polaris View Post
Avoid mixing real pictures (aka photographs) with anime or 3d images. It must be a great master to do that (it's so hard I think I saw that just once) and most time it just don't fit, you get the clear idea what you did you joined the two images. Sometimes what I try to do is make the photograph looking like it was also drawn! So like that you don't know what I transformed or what was the original. Also when it comes about water and crystal try to make a soft outline on the character in white, it'll get an idea of "pure".
That's actually my opinion this time. Work with real pictures only with real people or something that looks really real. Right now we doesn't have that much or tecnology for creating 3D images that look really real (one year or two, maybe), but anyways, it's a good aproach with a good concept, but with the wrong images. Good luck .