Here's the next shot, the tree's flowers starting to fall over Surai. I was planning to do this with Maya, but I've found a way to do it in After Effects and this is how it looks like. I'm quite happy with it, so I guess I'll keep it this way and put Maya aside, at least for now.
I've used the Particle World effect, adding a sassafras flower texture to the particles. And the trees are the same as in the previous shot.
Here's the second test I've done with After Effects for this shot's background. The trees, grass and sky have been created in Painter and Photoshop, then imported into After Fx and treated as 3D objects to compose the scenery. Then I've added a camera linked to a null object, an ambient light and several focused ones.
Of course, the hair isn't finished, I still have to make all lines black, paint it frame by frame, paint her head... so, it'll take time.
The first test was done by painting a landscape in Photoshop and then adding a vanishing point to it to simulate a perspective. I imported the vanishing point file to After Fx and animated a camera. Here's the result: