Fixing up Paint Effect

i was having some issues with paint effect. for some reason, i couldn't get the effect right. everytime i tried to map the painted image ( jpeg ) onto the leaves and flowers, i got it wrong. it would just flatten out everything for me. i couldn't see the shape of leaves or flowers. it was really annoying. i couldn't wait to fix it because if i don't fix it now, i wouldn't get chance to work on more files. all files were linked to this growing flowers effect. so, i decided to go to the labs, and find Mike to help me out with. before i knew it, my problem was fixed and i was finally relaxed. all i needed to do was in photoshop, when i create my files, i had to make an alpha channel for the leaves, and any other files that i needed to use for flowers. and that fixed the problem. WHAT A RELIEF!!!!

Glowing ball in Scene

I added the glowing ball into the scene that i used for animatics, and replaced two of the butterflies with painted ones just to see how it looks. (disregard the way butterflies are flying right now ) I think i'm satisfied with glowing ball, but my only concern is that it looks really "graphical" compared to the rest of the project which is "painterly" look.
I hope it doesn't create any issues in the future.

Glowing Ball - try 2

And here's the video of glowing ball that i was working on recently. All i did is just made a circle in photoshop, and brought that into photoshop, and made it look a little fancier with some lens flares, and i added some shine on it as well.

Glowing Ball - try -1

Well, here's the video of glowing ball that i was practicing last semester. Though it does have some glowing effect, i still think it needs to be refined.

Painted Butterflies

These are some of the butterflies that i painted using Corel. As of now, they all have same shape of their wings but i'll make some different shapes as well. For now, i just wanted to paint them, and let them fly and see how it looks. Background is just an image i grabbed from my reference images.

Scene 1, Shot 1 - Try 2

Here's the 2nd try of scene 1, shot 1. Last time, when I had trees mostly with greens. This time, i kept all trees in dried look. It's still work in progress but i just wanted to render out whatever i had, and post it up here.

Thesis Production - Shot 1- without Light

Here's the same shot without light. I had rendered out the first time with light on but it looked a lot darker than i had expected. so i thought of rendering out same shot w/out light. here's how it looks.

Working on Thesis Production

Finally, it's about time that i can get my hands on production part of my thesis. I been working on it right after the end of Fall semester. I just wanted to see how would it look like when all painted elements are put together.

Even though I didn’t get to finish everything of shot 1, but I tried to put as much effort onto it as possible. I painted the textures of trees in corel, and same with sky. Camera movement is a little rough right now but it’s still work in progress. Same goes for light as well. Sky needs to be worked on. Right now what I have is the dark looking sky for the shot 1. grass is not in the scene yet. i just added a green solid in place of grass. My focus was mainly on trees, and their texture.