To ensure that the lighting conditions of the background texture and the scene match later on, the area light was aligned so that the “sun” of the HDRI comes from the same direction as the “light” on the background texture later on.Finally, I added another light source directly behind the panther to intensify the overexposed sun of the background image by casting a shadow on the panther. To do this, a photo of a metal plate, which had previously been colour-adjusted in Photoshop, was loaded into Diffuse Layer 1. In addition to various panther reference images for a correct skeleton and muscle structure, I was inspired by steampunk elements, armour, metal decorations and ornaments.