Ornament Thief

To celebrate Xmas and my new little buddy Jojo, I present to you this artwork of a mischievous Goffin’s Cockatoo collecting ornaments from an Xmas tree. I actually created most of the scene while Jojo was either playing on my lap or asleep on my shoulder or trying to preen my hair. LOL We don’t even have our tree up yet (I need to go check on that) and I don’t plan to let Jojo anywhere near it once we do. Still, this is totally what he’d do except he’d throw the ornaments in the floor and wait for me to pick them up so he could throw them down again. He’s a little character!

Rendered in Superfly with on soft area light and emissive shaders on the tree lights. I enhanced the glows of the tree lights in Photoshop with a linier dodge layer. I then used a couple actions to give the scene a “vintage Xmas” look and finally added a color balance adjustment layer to fine tune the colors to my liking. 

Most of these items are available from the Renderosity Marketplace (unless otherwise noted):

• Songbird Remix Parrots Vol. 4: Cockatoos of the World by Ken_Gilliland
• Christmas Tree by RPublishing
•  Shattered Xmas by coflek-gnorg