Art Test: Compositing

Here I am trying to composite the paper dragon with a cloud background made of a composite of several cloud photos.

Here is the cloud Background:



Here's a photo of my paper dragon stand-in model. I really need a blue or green screen.


Here's a composite shot. I tweaked the color of the dragon a bit.


Here I have done a bit of dodge and burn to try to match the lighting.



Here's a pic of the tower peeking through... didn't work so well.




If I move the dragon, the lighting doesn't make too much sense. I'm going to have to figure out some in-game lighting system to affect the base color of the objects as they move. Good thing XNA has the "add" functionality for image display - I can set an image to be just the value of the light.