I was planning to make a quick wallpaper for my laptop, so that’s why I choose Luna since it made more sense to put her in a dark night environment and the blue color scheme will not be as distracting compared with other colors. As you might have noticed, the composition is kinda heavy on the right since most of my stuff in my desktop are mostly on the left, so it was done on purpose to balance things out.

I also tried out the water reflections but unfortunately it will come out as a smudged abomination if you choose to export the project as a poster, so what I did instead was to export the project as image sequence, that way reflections were visible alongside with the bloom but the resolution is only limited to 4K (GabeN why). Also keep in mind that the reflections aren’t perfect due to the limitations of the Source engine.

Inspired heavily by this song.

Made with Source Filmmaker, rendered at 4K resolution with 1024 DOF samples

Detailed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015

Color Enhanced with Adobe Lightroom CC 2015

Materials and assets:

Map: sfm_paul from https://sfmlab.com/item/686/

S1 Luna: https://www.deviantart.com/sindroom/art/SFM-Gmod-Princess-Luna-S1-752298128

Fireflies: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=390082365&searchtext=

Trees: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=449966860&searchtext=tree

Moon: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=541892062&searchtext=moon

Resident Evil 4 House: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=938955073&searchtext=house

Fish from CS:GO

Canoe from HL2

Lantern from TF2

Dock from CS:GO