First... I must give a huge thanks to Deviney for helping me to make sure that I could convert his brushes for use in Gimp. This image would have fallen far short of my ideal without those great tools. I've been planning this image in my head for weeks, ever since the end of the story was firmly decided on I knew that I wanted this image. considering all of the troubles I've had with the software lately I was terrified that I would have to settle for a sub-par version of this image, but it went incredibly well. Ok, for the process, as it was kinda odd. I started off in gimp, and made the backdrop. I then made a copy of the backdrop and desaturated and contrasted it for use as a displacement map. I set up the character in D|S, then mapped the backdrop to a plane resized with the aspect ratio I wanted, and added the displacement map. The way it turned out needed minimal postwork. The depth from displacement was just as I wanted, and the only postwork in the thing is actually just some brightening with a screen layer. I'm veeerrryy happy, lol Credits: Ongoing for him, Sci-fi FX and Concrete brushed by Deviney, tunic pants with the undead texture, studio light pro