Ok so my moms 60th birthday was coming around the corner, and i couldn't think of anything to buy her beeing last minute and all. Pulled an all nighter and put together this designed birthday card for her.
Some people have already told me it looks too harsh and cold to give to your mom. Just want to point out that we're a family of German ancestry, we're like that.
Started fiddling around in 3D Studio Max because of superior text tools until i landed on something i found fitting design-wise, then exported it over to Maya. Made a ton of shaders and layers. Then exported everything to Images.
After working up a result i was decently happy about, I concluded that the image lacked flare. Lens flare to be specific.
As it is usually frowned upon to use lens flares I hid it by making the general image a tad overexposed.
