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>>700030
You might not actually have to do much for the wizards to be honest. They're fully covered in the robes and hoods (looking at the card). You could probably get away with a shitty human model from makehuman or similar. Hell, if you really don't want to go that route, you could probably just throw something vaguely human shaped together for the robes to drape over. Then use a cloth sim to drape some fabric. It'd be pretty easy in Marvelous, but it should be simple enough without it depending on what you're using. It doesn't have to be much more than a big sheet with some pinning here and there.

As for the pinching at the top, you could just fuck around with the camera's FOV, or if you really want to push it, you could use a lattice like pic related to squeeze things in more at the top. The FOV thing is more dependent on what angle you're looking at, but the lattice would work independently from where you're looking.

For lighting, you're actually pretty close to the card now that I look at it. They've got some crazy dark shadows going under the platforms. I don't know much about VRay, but if you increase the strength of your main light you should get some crisper and darker shadows. If not, you could always cheat by using a mesh the shape of your dark/hard shadows under the platform, making the material black, and throw some transparency on it. It's hacky, but I've done it occasionally and it's worked alright.

In any case, it's looking good. Pretty close to the card. If possible though I'd whip up a few more book meshes. Can't ever have too much variety.