Mermaid was done just for fun, i decided to go on and evolve the spacegirl character into a series of illustrations, just as i did with the kamikazebra, the cow and Dragoon series.
Later on the project i had some cool ideas about making a short movie, i will try to have time this year to acomplish that, but if I am as busy as last year... well, i will try at least ;)
Done in 3dsmax, and rendered in mentalray will lots of sss shaders. below you can take a look at the production images.

mermaid wireframe:

scene wireframe:

viewport shaded view:

no depht of field blur:

a crop of the high resolution render, you can see some low subdivision but the image was intended to receive the DOF blur that fixed this:

 

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