Making of : Fairy Tree

I don't really know from where came this idea, but i was thinking about a mysterious forest with some tree which can make light. I made a quick concept sketch to visualise the scene :

When I was doing the concept sketch I had the idea to add a little creature inside the "fruit" of the tree. The scene was easy to make. Trees was made with an extruded cylinder, and the fruit of the trees with a sphere.

I decided to make various version of the creature to show his development :

The texture of trees was all made with procedural texture. Here is a first version of the output render :

Then a added a ground to give more perspective and tweaked the texture. These are the final version where I added also some post pro with photoshop : clik to see a bigger version