Hello there. What I'd like to do is take the Samurai from the sketch render that you see here and place it in a 'live action' render (as it were). What I was planning on doing was exporting the sketch render as a .png (so it has a transparent background) and then paste it into the 'live action' render. Now that seems fairly easy, but the tricky part is that I want to preserve those lines on the edges of the samurai (they look a bit like stars). I can only get those lines in the sketch render if I have a wall prop - perhaps it reflects light, I don't know. But I won't be able to easily composit the samurai into the other render if that wall is there (since it won't be transparent in the PNG). Can anyone help?

If you haven't yet, look for some tutorials in the tutorial section here. I think SnowSultan has done several on making one picture from several renders, and then there are a few other people (can't remember names) who have done tutorials on turning Poser renders into comic-book or anime (or manga? I forget) style pictures. It seems to me that those tutorials should describe techniques that you would find helpful.

Is the samurai on an otherwise transparent image. (I.e. only the samurai, nothing else in the image?) If so, can you place the samurai layer above this layer then erase out any pieces that should be hidden - that would be blocked by what's in front of the samurai? Hope this helps, Cres