Hi again everyone :) It's been a loooong time since I last posted anything here on Renderosity. It's good to be back home :) It's been a while since I worked on a mattepainting, so I wanted to create something to keep my skills up to date. This one took me a couple of weeks to make. I worked on it when I came home from school. I wanted to create something that looks like it could have been taken straight from a classic fairytale, yet still be somewhat realistic. The castle is of course inspired by the beautiful castle Neuschawnstein in Bavaria. It was a lot of fun lighting for this special sunrise lighting situation. The forest is made using 3D trees from Xfrog, so I could get as close to my initial sketch as possible. I hope you like it! Comments and critiscm is most welcome :) Best regards, Thomas