Matte Wars Forum Topic Suggestions

[turx]

day-night
making a night scene from a morning shot would be a great challenge i think.

[eirenicon]

Post Apocalypse... turn a city shot into a nuclear wasteland.

Deep Space... for all the scifi nuts, paint a 2001-esque space station or a galaxy or whatever.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea... get a nice underwater shot and add a habitat complex, or a submarine, etc.

[Garma]

maybe it's a good idea to have the rule that you only can suggest topics if you provide a source plate? :)

[DoInferno]

Ruins of an ancient civilization - Get a jungle or desert picture and paint the ruins of the civilization on it.

High tech civilization - A picture of some place to make a futuristic town.

Whatever you want - give us a picture and the theme is decided by wich one (Could be done from time to time...).

[Garma]

In order of preference :)

Glorious Rome (http://csr.oli.tudelft.nl/huizen/hg/cgt/matte/gloriousrome.jpg)
The Lost City (http://csr.oli.tudelft.nl/huizen/hg/cgt/matte/thelostcity.JPG)
Horror Hotel (http://csr.oli.tudelft.nl/huizen/hg/cgt/matte/hotelhorror.jpg)
Collapse (http://csr.oli.tudelft.nl/huizen/hg/cgt/matte/collapse.jpg)
A Desert Story (http://csr.oli.tudelft.nl/huizen/hg/cgt/matte/reincarnated.jpg)

I got these source files from El dorado, check it out this place is *huge* with loads of high les images

http://gal.mvc.ru/

[Eyern]

I live a few blocks from Lake Michagan, I could try to get a shore shot when I have free time...

[AirbORn]

I live in Toronto, I have a fairly large library of personal digital photography. I wouldn't mind donating a few images that would be appropriate for this mini challenge, looks fun :) Message me Roberto if you are interested. I can send you a contact sheet with 12-24 images. Anything for some community interaction. :)

[tuzz]

I think one should definitely supply a pic together with the topic suggestion :)

Here is mine:
Paint a head (http://www.holgerfrohloff.de/images/mattes/paintahead.jpg) (just add a new head to the side or perhaps modify the existing ones to be others :)

-tuzz

[robinayles]

Here are some suggestions to go with some pics I've taken on my "world travels"...

Middle-earth meltdown (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/hobbiton16.jpg)

Treehouse (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/waitomo3.jpg)

And suddenly the peace was broken... (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/ferry_view5.jpg)

Make your own monument (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/dog_monument.jpg)

Outlaw hideout (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/kaitoke_rivendell5.jpg)

Paint the roof (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/sydney06.jpg)

Stonehenge under attack (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/stonehengeB.jpg) (this pic might be too blurry to use)

UFO's over Sydney (http://www.k-squared.com/pics_4_mattes/sydney12.jpg)

[erilaz]

Hi people!

I just got back from a months trip to Cambodia, so I'll have a lot of interesting source imagery for you all, especially in the area of jungle and ruins. :D

[CodeNothing]

hmm, i dont have any referance image, but "Structures on Mars" would be a cool one for a rocky desert scene.

Heck, structures on the moon could be cool too. We could use NASA photos.

[RobertoOrtiz]

I live in Toronto, I have a fairly large library of personal digital photography. I wouldn't mind donating a few images that would be appropriate for this mini challenge, looks fun :) Message me Roberto if you are interested. I can send you a contact sheet with 12-24 images. Anything for some community interaction. :)

Please pick what you think are your best images, and post some topics....

Trust me we will use them.

-R

[CodeNothing]

Space station / mothership

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Columbia_Moon.jpg
http://www.spilk.org/graphics/wallpapers/sts99%20crop.jpg
http://www.crazyeddie.org/wallpaper/images/earth-Gemini-7_1280x1024.jpg

Space fighter attack!

http://www.crazyeddie.org/wallpaper/sub_pages/space(sts-95)_1280x1024.htm

They were already there...

http://www.eznow.net/001/001005l.jpg

Hurry! lets get out of here!

http://www.aip.de/~gallery/solar_system/Moon/lunarscape_apollo17_big.jpg

[Floriz]

The Main Entrance to Moria
http://gal.mvc.ru/gallery/images//nature/rn0UyWuW761.jpg
or
http://gal.mvc.ru/gallery/images//nature/d9UitLsq1980.jpg

City of Troy
http://www.aoqz76.dsl.pipex.com/Web%20Page%20Components/Wallpaper/Landscapes/Coastline.jpg[/url]

Stonehenge City
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~norconkm/images/stonehenge.jpg

Manhattan in 2078
http://www.guilleminot.org/mytravels/picturesnewyork/manhattan.jpg

I also wanted to do Atlantis, but I couldn't find a suitable picture..

[url="http://gal.mvc.ru/gallery/images//nature/rn0UyWuW761.jpg"] (http://www.hydromod.de/opcom/images/PT-Coast.jpg)

[jeroentje]

Until now we have taken an environment and painted in details.
It would be nice to do something the other way around. Like taking a photograph of for example a house or a ship or something, and paint the surrounding landscape.
Something like this I mean: http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp46.html

[Albius]

Here are a few ideas:

Monster Attack (http://www.r-vision.cz/images/usa/01%20Prilet%20do%20USA/1-14-New%20York%20Street.jpg)

The Wizard (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/family_album/gabe66.JPG)

The Monk (http://www.geogr.uni-goettingen.de/kus/pics/vn8/www-vn2002-old-man-pagoda-mittel1.jpg)

Mobile Urban Command Center (http://www.highrollers4x4club.com/our_auto_show/2003_our_show_pics/white_van.jpg)

Shangri-La (http://peacham.homeip.net/china/images/wpe1A2.jpg)

[nocric]

I have an Idea (many):

Get a picture of a castle (for excample Versaille palace) and turn it into a GHOST CASTLE
Get a picture of a calm village (nightshot wouldb be perfect with moonlight) and the give a task to the artists to turn it into a zombie village, where zombies are crawling around
Get a picture of something beautiful and good (like good/evil good) and turn something like that into evil. BaHahawahaahhaa...
Get a picture of a politic person (Bush) and turn the picture of (him/her/it?) into something stupid or funny (you decide)
Feel free to deform and reuse my ideas I just had some popup ideas an i wanted to share

edit:

Get a picture of an anorexic or a very thin person ( Ally Mcbean ) and try to turn that person into a really fat or just a fat person.

[Smirnoff]

hola! i was just wondering when will we have the next mattewars?

[nocric]

Did i get this right, that the matte wars are only once a month?

[CheekyNix]

Hi all,

How about an Elephant into a Oliphant (Them big nasty Elephant creatures from Lord of the Rings)

or even a little heard of them- what will an oliphant look like in it's natural habitat or are they bread in captivity?

http://gal.mvc.ru/gallery/images//animals/IucS6OWx456.jpg

[Her0d]

sorry, had to delete contents, wrong topic :-)

[roguenroll]

maybe something easier to start, a day/night, or change to winter scene. I also liked the haunted house thing I've seen lately.

[Notanymore]

"Chaos: is the excess of order a nightmare?"
"Lucifer: the evilness incarnated"
"Your Paradise"
"Old Knights: knighthood on his decline"
"Orc War Beast"
"your vision of America"
"The Greatest Sea"
"Waterfalls are pink"
"The Deep Forest of Your Dreams"
"Nonsense: beyond comprehension"
"Aliens are so nice :)"

[Gord-MacDonald]

A really low res pic I took along time ago:
The topic?
http://cg2020.com/GeneralDiscussion/gaspe3a_filtered_550px.jpg

[roguenroll]

nice layering on the rocks

[JTD]

I’ve got an idea for matte wars that takes its inspiration from Aaron Sims' Creature Designs and coincides with nocric’s ideas a couple of posts up:

Jekyll and Hyde (I guess I should give credit to Robert Louis Stevenson too!)

What we do is take someone’s photo (unfortunately I have to post a picture (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bradyresidence.com/greg99.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bradyresidence.com/greg99.html&h=248&w=199&sz=10&tbnid=6e5-8HESxjsJ:&tbnh=106&tbnw=85&hl=en&start=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnice%2Bguy%26start%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN)according to the rules. Apologies to Berry Williams) and paint the alter ego standing next to the person.

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