I introduced warmer colors as it becomes apparent that the statue is actually alive...and red as the audience's empathy for this trapped person is evoked
Maybe this would be of interest to you: Paul Debevec, Mon, 2/13, C105 @ 7:00 pm. "From Spider-Man to Avatar: Achieving Photoreal Digital Actors"
Debevec is Associate Director for Graphics Research, USC Institute for Creative Technologies Invited by SIGGRAPH student chapter. Come early and/or stay late, munchies I think....