ACADEMIC POSTER 2

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas.

I am so proud of the clouds on the far left, I think I went to dark with the other ones, but with it being such a big canvas (175cm wide) the paint dried really fast. Which meant there was lots of layers of paint, so It was a bit textured, but with the quality of cameras these days it hasn't mattered too much in the picture. I only did the mountains and clouds because it was making me really sad not being able to paint in a non realistic style, I definitely was meant to be more creative, I also plan on finishing the painting in a non realistic manner, I knew it just wouldn't sit well with the imagery so I basically told myself not to get upset over it and just get it over with. That's pretty much how this project ended, do I regret not doing more? Well looking back I actually think I've done a decent amount of practical work, but saying that I know myself and I know I haven't reached my potential, but it just means I have to push the boat out in extended practice. I am very greatful for finding out about all the magicians behind live action films and I have so much respect for them and therefore I appreciate the research I have carried out. I also think next project I need to be less indecisive, make decisions a lot faster so I'll definitely have to plan lock down dates. Otherwise that will be my downfall. Anyways I hope you've enjoyed the exploration of matte painting and my soul, bye x

OIL ON GLASS

I think it's safe to say for this test i shouldn't be a compositor.

Also that I need a better printer to colour match.

Positives of this though, the painting itself showed me that it actually requires little detail to portray depth on screen. And also that texturing does a world of wonders in digital matte painting. Aside the face that this looks like a three year old made a scrap book, I think I portrayed the idea well enough, I don't think I'm going to begin the lifelong journey of being a matte painter, please let me go back and do fake stuff. No realism.

Digital Matte Painting 4

BEFORE Yes I know the exposure is appalling but look how magical that roundabout looks. So this was taken from a rooftop bar in Colombo.

AFTER
Replacement sky, some colouring on the buildings, played with the gamma, trimmed the bottom bit out with cloning, fiddling in lots of small places for a few hours to get this. Those cranes were a bloody nightmare to do. This is the only one I don't have footage for, but imagine a city pan, that's the kind of thing they'd use it for in industry.

Digital Matte Painting 3

BEFORE 

AFTER

Ooh this is fun it's like playing spot the difference. So this scene I photographed with and without the pole, because a lot of matte painting are about clean up, it was quite therapeutic to do actually. I also changed the contrast of some of the paddy fields to make them pop and gave it a new sky and got rid of the cables.

Digital Matte Painting 2

BEFORE - very under exposed, it was sunny okay I couldn't see the screen. I made it look stormy though.

AFTER

I think I over worked this matte painting, I just wanted it to be really special though. And it does just look a bit cheap, but I got to apply all the peru tutorial techniques so that was exciting. I think it's clear to see the thought process from these screen shots. Again I did take a video of them playing football. Not very well shot though so I didn't bother compositing any of them, I definitely do not want to learn that anytime soon, that can wait until I can function the software I already know.

I think if I was to do it again I wouldn't make the mountain on the left so humpy.

The sky was a bitch to do there's fourteen layers there, I think I was really precious about it because of how successfully I'd done the one in the tutorial.

This just mirrored well.

This tree set was from another photo.

Although because all the photo's were taken in different lighting to get the colour balance to match up I had to play around with it and google how to do it and I still struggled. 

At one point I just thought fuck it and created a new layer and put like a colour on it and changed the opacity.

I was going to try this water but then I realised it had the TukTuk reflections. But I did use the grass.

The sand bit is off one of my beach photos.

Digital Matte Painting 1

BEFORE

AFTER
There is also video footage of this area from the original plate. If i was to do a shot with this scene, I'd have characters horse riding through the rice field onto a quest that takes them over the hills in the background.


PROCESS

Now admittedly there definitely was as many steps as the tutorial, but I thought I should break in easy, and I did try several trees in the foreground but I just didn't have a good enough picture of one from my travels, that's something I definitely realised is that I didn't take enough pictures. I didn't know though.

I just didn't think the trees made it as strong so I didn't clean them up properly, but with it being a matte painting, that'd be where the action is on that side of the screen so I think it's a good thing.