Here’s my first time making a piece with clear, bright blue skies. It was more difficult to set up the lights since the bright environment will make the character looks flat & blends with the background more easily, so shadows and rim lights play quite a major role.
inspired by this music video: Rich Brian - Chaos
Made with Source Filmmaker, rendered at 4K resolution with 1024 DOF samples
Starlight & swimsuit texture edited with GIMP 2, Adobe Photoshop, and VTFEdit
Detailed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015
Color Enhanced with Adobe Lightroom CC 2015
Map; black_void
Enhanced Starlight: https://www.deviantart.com/derxx/art/DL-SFM-Enhanced-Starlight-Glimmer-V1-2-758513697
Aviators: https://sfmlab.com/item/2334/
Additional hair: https://www.deviantart.com/empireoftime/art/EqG-Starlight-and-Sunset-SFM-Gmod-740366014
Golden AK-47: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=365155070
Beach buggy car: https://sfmlab.com/item/1463/
Beach props: https://sfmlab.com/item/2863/ and https://sfmlab.com/item/2423/
Bottle from: https://sfmlab.com/item/2072/