The inspiration to create this image came from watching the movie "The Fountain."My desire was to recreate the same emotional atmosphere of the original movie. First I created the lowquality model in 3dsmax. In a second time I increased the detail with Zbrush and I made the diffuse color texture, the bump texture, the normal map texture and the displacement map texture. Specular map texture and epidermal map texture were drawn in photoshop using the diffuse color texture. At the end, everything was exported in 3d max, where I realized the illumination with mental ray. the skin material is a simple SSS skin material with various textures levels. Finally I added the background in post production. I hope you like. Hi to everyone