This project was initially completed over the weekend for a 3D challenge and was later revised and expanded upon over the past two evenings.

This image reenacts a scene in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream where an actor Nick Bottom experiences a magical transformation, with his head becoming that of a donkey.

In the play there is much magical mischief at the hands of the king (Oberon) and his servant Puck. Puck plays a prank on Titania, the fairy queen, causing her to fall in love with the first person she sees when she awakes.

She wakes after hearing Bottom singing in the forest. She immediately falls in love with him and leads him to her lair.

Here in the shadows Puck chuckles at the situation.

Much later in the play Nick Bottom is left to wonder if all that transpired was just a dream.

If you haven't read or seen the play performed it's quite imaginative and fun!

As for the image, I was going for more of a dreamy storybook look. Total project time was around 25 hours.

This is a pure render, no post-processing necessary as Blender's internal render node network was used to attain the results shown here.

As always, thank you for your interest in my work,

RobertT