It was interesting to try and use Celestia in this picture. I already figured that Celestia would fit as the role of Rauru (Celestia being the pony in control of the sun and Rauru being the Sage of Light in Ocarina of Time), but because of Celestia’s larger size I had problems trying to make it look natural (also considering that Rauru is only slightly taller than Link in the game), so I eventually decided to create a new look for Celestia by putting together multiple models to make her slightly smaller and fitting more with Sunset’s size. The models I used are below.
Rendered with 9 4K renders @ 256 DoF samples
43 lights used in this scene (1 volumetric)