The First Descent

A quick render to practice composition and lighting and some posing, somewhat inspired by dark souls styled illustrations.
Theme is some old tribal summoning.

I mainly tried to give an imposing weight to the statue by shoving the camera as close to the ground as possible, yet even with high field of view it looked a bit weak, so I went and used a fish eye lens which helped circle the composition better.

Volumetric where okay but maybe if I had more time I would had added more elements to the background, maybe falling leaves.

I did not want the cultist to distract much so I simply gave them no shader, because of the volumetrics it just looks like a high diffuse black material rather than some uncanny completely black shadeless thing.

Also depth of field to make the foreground less distracting.

Also here are the credits for the assets that I used:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/planar-human-base-rigs-15a1d670d29b4195a10c23dca0d13da9
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/gudea-a-plaster-cast-of-an-antique-figure-a9735f4849a24e54a89213f56022d77a