I made the long leaves with standard max hair and fur which was causing me a headache:) I have redone them 4 times until I was fully satisfied. The small leaves were done with the same method as the small tree on the right. When it was nearly finished, I rendered it out and connected it in photoshop. This was just to check the compositon again. After I checked it I decided, that it would be cool to have some darker bushes in the forground to lead the viewer's eye. So I drew the shape directly on the picture in PS and then modeled the bushes from this. The last step was the creation of background and postproduction. Making the background, I also spent some time searching on the internet for nice skies and mountains. The final background is a composition of 5 different pictures. There was just added a volume light and color correction in the postproduction and final picture was done:) I hope that this "short" making of was helpful to you and you learned something. I'm really looking forward to see some feedback, so don't hesitate to write me, if you have any question and just to say hallo:) Radoslav Zilinsky "radoxist"