The social team at Clemson reached out with a fun idea: make it look like the Clemson tiger was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade! I found an inflatable Clemson Tiger picture to use as a reference and got to work modeling it. I adjusted the model to look more closely to the actual Clemson Tiger mascot as well (which, to be fair, is a little scary looking in balloon form).

I then created a balloon like texture, added some ropes, and sculpted the model. I then placed the model in the scene, built out a cityscape (using a plugin to save a bunch of time), spent a while on the lighting, and then rendered it out! It was a fun challenge to create a photorealistic render!

Clemson University Thanksgiving Parade Social

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