Testing Bloom lighting

Here I added a glow lighting effect to get that bloom lighting. However now I am not able to see the sun as the dome is coovering the mental ray. So I may just render the images as normal and add the lighting in photoshop to get the effect I want. Also I have complete the shimenawa rope on the trees.

Screenshots of island coming together

Screenshots of final island

Complete dog statue

Complete dog

 Here I have the complete model. But I wasn't sure if it looks better if it were to be smoothed.

Here I smoothed the object. But I wasn't happy with the result so I kept it as normal to give it that rocky look.

Komainu (dog statue)

 Here I was edge modelling the face for my dog statue.

Trees after smoothing

Trees before smoothing

Here is a render of my cherry blossom trees before they were smoothed.

Map Layout

I decided To go back with the idea of the Shinto religion as there was much more I could experiment with.  Here is the simple map layout for my environment.