Glow Watcher

I was inspired by this image to make something similar in Blender. I love the saturated orange gradients—they remind me of the colors in the Dune 2 film.

Rendered with Cycles.

I rendered the character in a separate scene and then composited the renders together. This gave me more control over how the character integrated into the scene.

The compositing did a huge part in the look of the image: