In the following years I sculpted the tall model and got the straight up and down texture of the stone carving, but the other dragon had a similar muscular texture to the creature because it was alive. Sculpting is a technical task and a great test of patience, even with a complete design it was difficult, with uncontrollable directions, numerous bugs and many problems that prevented the final product. The zremesher was also rather mushy and squiggly and needed to be moved to Maya for further softening of the edges and then adding uv’s before finally applying the materials.

However, the material was a problem, as the paint would flake off in the desert sun, but not in some places, so I looked up a lot of coloured statues, some of which were buried in the ground in Greece, and some of which were barely visible. But basically all sculptures from all civilisations originally had a layer of colour, so the reference is still rich, and the colour was added to the right places in the later colouring. But for the ordinary animal statues the record is almost always the colour of the sculptural material, with very little pigment, and even the affixed metal is rare, but because it is an original temple so it is directly affixed to the chest with a gold floral pattern.

The small statue, on the other hand, was made after looking at many ritual scenes and realising that both Egyptian Greece and China were fond of cute little idols to pay tribute to, so it was made to resemble a large sculpture, but the small idol was too serious and it happened to see an owl clay vase and Russian nesting dolls, so it was made directly into a small clay idol decorated with flower petals. The small pottery idols would have been placed wherever people could put them as a sign of good faith, and as Egyptian mythology prevents ordinary people from entering the inner sanctum, there would have been very few idols in the inner sanctum, but due to a magical hiding mentioned in the backstory, most of the small pottery figures outside disappeared and only a few lucky ones remained.