For this image, we aimed for an optimized photo-realistic 2d to 3d translation/interpretation based on famous Japanese animation. Not too real but not too fake looking either but still keeping the delightful essence of the original animation.
We welcome your comments on this project so that we could apply your advice for we will be coming up with a tutorial for this one. We treat this as a process for sharing to the CG community and set the standard on what to do and how to do in the field of photorealistic CG.
Thank you for viewing!
[All characters in the scene belongs to 'My Neighbor Totoro' which is owned by Studio Ghibli]